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been occasionally taken in an exhausted state, 

 within the precints of the town of Brighton. Af- 

 ter a dark stormy night, in the spring of 1841, 

 a spotted crake was found alive in the churchyard 

 of Trinity Chapel, probably attracted like many 

 other migratory birds which have been captured 

 in the gardens and even in the areas of the houses 

 by the long line of gas-lights which extends al- 

 most without interruption from Brunswick Terrace 

 to Kemp- Town. 



Specimens have been shot near Storrington in 

 the autumn, and several were killed during the 

 month of October, 1841, on Henfield Common. 



LITTLE CRAKE, Crex pusilla. A little crake 

 was caught alive a few years ago near Beeding 

 chalk-pits, (vide Yarrell). I have also seen a spe- 

 cimen in the possession of the proprietor of the 

 Dolphin Inn at Shoreham, which was shot by 

 himself in that neighbourhood. I am not aware 

 that a third example of this scarce bird has oc- 

 curred in Sussex. 



WATER RAIL, Rallus aquaticus. Has frequently 

 been captured on the beach, and in different parts 

 of Brighton, during the period of the vernal migra- 

 tion, under circumstances to which I have already 

 alluded, (vide Spotted Crake). About the middle 

 of April, 1842, a couple were taken in East-street, 

 and several on the same morning within the areas 



