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THE LITTLE CRAKE. 
Crex pusilla. 
PLATE XXXI. 
Gatlinula minuta, Mont Rallus pusillus, Lath. — Crex 
pusilla, Selby Poule d’eau poussien, Temm >Little 
Crake or Olivaceous Gallinule of British authors. 
This little species, of plainer dress than the last, is 
of equal rarity in occurrence, having been met with 
only at intervals in the counties to the southward of 
Yorkshire, between March and October ; no speci- 
mens are noted in Scotland or Ireland, or, indeed, 
to the south of the county named above. So far as 
we know, its habits and nidification are similar to 
those of the two last ; hut its habits, except with 
great patience, are a great hinderance to investiga- 
tion. It is curious that these birds — this as well as 
the last — are said by Temminck to he of “ acci- 
dental” occurrence in Holland, a country which 
we should have considered in every way suited to 
them. In Southern and Eastern Europe it seems 
plentiful. Temminck considers the Japanese species 
identical. 
