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leave the main land at Swanage, and cross over to the 

 Isle of Wight, whence, finding their progress checked by 

 the open sea, they return to the coast somewhere about 

 Hayling Island, and continue their flight towards the 

 Straits of Dover, whence they take their final de- 

 parture.. This is further corroberated by a communi- 

 cation from a former occupier of the manor of Hayling 

 Island, during a period of six years, which states, that 

 he usually killed from fifleen to twenty Land Rails a year; 

 they generally arrived in the first week of September, 

 on or about the eighth : the greatest number being killed 

 from the tenth to the twenty-fiflh of September. He said 

 that he had heard there had been a great many this year 

 on a farm near Selsey Bill, about twelve miles further 

 east: where a party had killed eight brace in one 

 day, but he did not know if the Land Rails regularly 

 landed there. 



A Gannet, Sula Bassana, was caught in a field near Tyneham 

 on 25th September, 1858. 



A Glossy Ibis, Ihia Fakinellus, was shot in the Stobo- 

 rough meadows, in the last week in September, and 

 passed into the possession of C. O. Bartlett, Esq. 



J. H, A, 



