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and in mid-Suffolk between tlie 18tli and 21st. On the ni^-lit of the 

 ]5th/16th single birds were seen at St. Catherine's Light (Isle of Wight) 

 between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., and on the next night a single bird was 

 taken at Hanois Light (Guernsey) at 11 p.m. On the 17th a fresh lot of 

 migrants arrived in Wiltshire, where they remained for some days, the 

 majority leaving on the 2oth and the remainder on the 27th. A late 

 straggler was seen in Surrey on the 7th of October. 



THE QUAIL {Coturnix communis). 



What was presumably a locally bred bevy of eight was found near 

 Salisbury, Wiltshire, on the 15th of September, but all appear to Lave 

 been shot betAveen that date and the 16th of October. 



July 



31st. 



Aug. 



31st. 



Sept. 



3rd. 



;> 



5th. 



)J 



10th. 



»» 



13th. 



>> 



13th/14th. 



V 



17th. 



V 



24th/25th. 



!) 



25th. 



V 



25th/26th. 



Oct. 



1st & 3rd. 



» 



2nd. 



}7 



18th. 



11 



23rd. 



THE LAND-RAIL {Cre.r pratetisis). 



Staffordshire, last heard. 



Mull of Galloway Lt. (Wigton), one killed. 



New Forest, Hampshire, one passing. 



Surrey, one passing. 



Thanet, E. Kent, two passing. 



Staffordshire, one shot ; S. coast of Yorkshire, two 



passing. 

 St. Catherine's Lt. (Isle of Wight), one killed. 

 Wiltshire, one passing. 



Lynmouth Foreland Lt. (N. Devon), one killed. 

 S. coast of Yorkshire, one passing ; Wiltshire, one. 

 Skerries Lt. (Anglesey), one killed. 

 New Forest, one passing. 

 Thanet, one passing. 

 Fair Isle (Shetland), one. 

 N. Somerset, one seen. 



THE WATER-RAIL [JRaUus aqzmtims). 



Sept. lOth/llth. St. Catherine's Lt. (Isle of Wight), a few from 1 to 



4 a.m. 

 „ llth/12th. Bardsey Lt. (Carnarvon), two at 9.30 and 11.20 p.m. 

 „ 15th/16th. Smalls Lt. (Pembroke), one killed at midnight. 

 „ 2Cth/27th. Bardsey Lt., one killed between 1 and 1.30 a.m. 

 „ 27th. Yarmouth (Norfolk), one found dead under the 



telegraph-wires. 

 Oct. llth/12th. Kentish Knock Lt.-v. (45 miles E. by N. from the 



mouth of the Thames), two at 10.15 p.m. and 2.40 



a.m. ; Smith's Knoll Lt.-v. (Norfolk), two at 3 a.m. 

 ,, 14th/15th. Leman and Ower Lt.-v. (Norfolk), one. 



