OCCURRENCE OF THE CAROLINA CRAKE IN TIREE 



post of observation, Cramond Island lies to the east, and, 

 measured on the Ordnance Survey maps, is distant almost 

 exactly a mile and a half. This knowledge has enabled me 

 to calculate with some approach to accuracy the speed 

 attained by the Starlings in their morning flight on those 

 occasions on which I have been so fortunate as to see them 

 rise from the island. 



SPEED OF FLIGHT OF STARLINGS. 



Date. 

 1900 



Nov. 

 Dec. 2 



^3 



10 



Rate of Plight. 

 Actual Time. Miles per Hour. 



2 in. 25 sec. 37-24 



2 m. 30 sec. 36 



2 m. 5 sec. 43-20 



2 m. 45 



Direction of \Yiml. 



South-west 



Calm 



Slight Easterly , 



55 55 



Almost Calm 



South-west 



East 



Variable (Southerly) 



North-easterly 



Calm 



West 



North 



No wind. 



West. 



Gale from East. 



West (very strong). 



ON THE OCCURRENCE OF THE CAROLINA 

 CRAKE [PORZANA CAROLINA (LINN.)] IN 

 THE ISLAND OF TIREE. 



By FRANCIS G. GUNNIS. 



ON the 25th of October last my brother-in-law, Mr. E. Lort 

 Philipps, while shooting snipe with me in Ronnach bog, at 

 the west end of the Island of Tiree, Inner Hebrides, obtained 

 a specimen of the Carolina Crake. This bird was examined 

 by Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, and was exhibited by Mr. Lort 

 Philipps at the meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club 

 on the 26th November last. It was a young male which 



