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The Land-Rail (Cre.v pratensis). One, Chicken Rock Lt. (Isle of 

 Man), July 21st/22nd ; heard, Carnarvon, August 4th ; many 

 young birds seen, Oswestry (Shropshire), 5th to 7th ; one shot, 

 Black Mountain (1400 ft.) (Carmarthen), 12th; two heard, Gras- 

 mere (Westmoreland), 15th; single birds, Isle of May Lt. (Fife) 

 and Little Ross Lt. (Kirkcudbright), 19th ; last seen, Swordale 

 (E. Ross-shire), 21st, Kirkliston and Glenling (Linlithgow), Sep- 

 tember 6th, Oswestry 7th, Beaulieu (Hants), 13th and Stornoway 

 (Outer Hebrides), 25th ; single birds shot, Ciliau Aeron 

 (Cardigan), 13th and Marston Moor (Yorkshire), 17th ; one, 

 St. Catherine's Lt. (Hants), 14th/15th ; one seen, Spurn Head 

 (Yorkshire), October 3rd; two, New Milton (Hants), 4th; one, 

 Dungeness (Kent), 9th ; one, Topsham (Devon), 10th ; last seen, 

 Fair Isle (Shetland), 12th ; one, Buckholt (Hants), 14th ; one, 

 Felsted (Essex), November 15th. 



Baillon's Crake (Porzana bailloni). One shot, Northallerton (York- 

 shire), October 3rd. 



The Water-Rail (Hallus aquaticus). One seen, Bedford, September 

 8th ; one, Packington (Warwick), 29th ; single birds, Fair Isle 

 (Shetland), October 1st, 3rd and 9th ; ten, Bardsey Lt. (Car- 

 narvon), 3rd/4th, twelve on 5th/6th and one on lOth/llth; one, 

 on a boat 40 miles E.N.E. of Lowestoft, 24th ; one, New Gallo- 

 way (Kirkcudbright), 25th ; two, Beauly Firth, 28th ; one, 

 St. Catherine's Lt. (Hants), November 2nd/3rd and 4th/5th ; 

 thirteen, Bardsey Lt., November 5th/6th, and six on 8th/9th ; 

 many, Lynn Well Lt.-v. (Norfolk), and one each, Haisboro' 

 Lt.-v. (Norfolk), St. Catherine's Lt. and Skerries Lt. (Anglesey), 

 6th/7th ; one, Skerries Lt., 8th/9th and 15th/16th ; several, Tiree 

 (Argyll), 11th; one, Spurn Head Lt. (Yorkshire), 20th/21st; 

 one, Auskerry (Orkney), 23rd; one, Stornoway (Outer Hebrides), 

 December 3rd. 



The Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus). Single birds, Deerness (Orkney), 

 September 25th, Fair Isle (Shetland), October 7th and 14th, 

 Skerries Lt. (Anglesey), llth/12th, Bardsey Lt. (Carnarvon), 

 November 5th/6th and Stornoway (Outer Hebrides), December 

 1st and 3rd. 



The Coot (Fulica atra). Several, Lynn Well Lt.-v. (Norfolk), August 

 21st/22nd ; first arrivals of winter-residents, Poole (Dorset), 

 September 21st, full numbers by October 7th ; fifty at sea, Loch 

 Ryan (Wigtown), December 14th. 



The Stone-Curlew (CEdicnemus scolopax). Six or seven (the last) 

 seen, Buckholt (Hants), September 28th ; one or two still present, 

 Hollesley (Suffolk), October 16th. 



The Dotterel (Eudromias morinellus). One shot, near Salisbury 

 (Wilts), September 26th. 



