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  THE 
  ZOOLOGIST. 
  

  

  left 
  banks 
  of 
  northern 
  rivers 
  in 
  Russia 
  and 
  Siberia. 
  — 
  J. 
  A. 
  Harvie- 
  

   Browx. 
  

  

  Spotted 
  Crake 
  in 
  Furness.— 
  In 
  ' 
  The 
  Zoologist,' 
  1898, 
  p. 
  479, 
  I 
  

   recorded 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  three 
  Spotted 
  Crakes 
  [Porzana 
  maruetta) 
  in 
  

   the 
  Rusland 
  Valley. 
  On 
  Oct. 
  4th 
  this 
  year 
  another 
  was 
  shot 
  in 
  the 
  

   same 
  small 
  swamp 
  from 
  which 
  the 
  other 
  three 
  were 
  obtained. 
  This 
  

   bird 
  is 
  now 
  in 
  the 
  Tullie 
  House 
  Museum, 
  Carlisle, 
  and 
  it 
  may 
  perhaps 
  

   be 
  worth 
  recording 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  the 
  Furness 
  examples 
  of 
  the 
  Little 
  

   Crake 
  and 
  Baillon's 
  Crake, 
  mentioned 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  Rev. 
  H. 
  A. 
  Mac- 
  

   pherson 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Fauna 
  of 
  Lakeland,' 
  are 
  now 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  collection. 
  — 
  

   Charles 
  F. 
  Archibald 
  (Rusland 
  Hall, 
  Ulverston). 
  

  

  Quail 
  in 
  Suffolk.— 
  Whilst 
  shooting 
  on 
  the 
  Brockley 
  Hall 
  Farm, 
  

   near 
  Bury 
  St. 
  Edmunds, 
  on 
  Oct. 
  18th, 
  I 
  flushed 
  a 
  Quail 
  (Cotumi.v 
  

   communis). 
  It 
  rose 
  at 
  my 
  feet, 
  and 
  flew 
  all 
  around 
  me, 
  settling 
  again 
  

   in 
  a 
  hedgerow. 
  I 
  did 
  not 
  shoot 
  it, 
  knowing 
  the 
  bird 
  well, 
  and 
  having 
  

   specimens 
  already 
  in 
  my 
  collection. 
  The 
  above 
  date 
  seems 
  rather 
  late 
  

   for 
  a 
  bird 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  to 
  be 
  found 
  here. 
  I 
  saw 
  some 
  eggs 
  that 
  were 
  

   taken 
  near 
  Fakenham 
  in 
  Norfolk 
  four 
  or 
  five 
  years 
  ago. 
  — 
  E. 
  A. 
  Butler 
  

   (Plumton 
  House, 
  Bury 
  St. 
  Edmunds). 
  

  

  Late 
  Stay 
  of 
  Golden 
  Plover 
  (Charadrius 
  pluvialis'i 
  in 
  Warwickshire. 
  

   It 
  is 
  well 
  known 
  that 
  these 
  birds 
  are 
  fraquent 
  visitors 
  to 
  Warwickshire 
  

   during 
  the 
  winter 
  months, 
  but 
  last 
  year 
  (1903) 
  a 
  pair 
  stayed 
  abnor- 
  

   mally 
  late 
  on 
  some 
  marshy 
  ground 
  near 
  a 
  small 
  river 
  within 
  ten 
  miles 
  

   of 
  the 
  city 
  of 
  Birmingham. 
  I 
  first 
  heard 
  and 
  saw 
  one 
  of 
  them 
  on 
  

   April 
  17th, 
  but 
  the 
  tenant 
  of 
  the 
  land 
  and 
  the 
  keeper 
  in 
  charge 
  of 
  the 
  

   shooting 
  had 
  observed 
  them 
  about 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  for 
  some 
  weeks 
  

   previously. 
  The 
  last 
  date 
  on 
  which 
  I 
  myself 
  heard 
  them 
  was 
  May 
  7th, 
  

   but 
  the 
  tenant 
  noticed 
  them 
  until 
  May 
  13th, 
  this 
  being 
  the 
  last 
  day 
  on 
  

   which 
  they 
  were 
  seen. 
  Towards 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  their 
  visit 
  they 
  became 
  

   very 
  tame, 
  and, 
  although 
  I 
  believe 
  the 
  change 
  to 
  breeding 
  plumage 
  is 
  

   common 
  to 
  both 
  sexes, 
  yet 
  only 
  one 
  of 
  them 
  was 
  showing 
  a 
  dark 
  

   colour 
  on 
  the 
  breast. 
  I 
  am 
  not 
  aware 
  of 
  there 
  being 
  any 
  book 
  on 
  the 
  

   birds 
  of 
  Warwickshire, 
  though 
  Mr. 
  Steele-Elliott, 
  in 
  his 
  ' 
  Vertebrate 
  

   Fauna 
  of 
  Sutton 
  Coldfield 
  Park 
  (Warwickshire),' 
  only 
  mentions 
  Golden 
  

   Plover 
  as 
  occasionally 
  passing 
  over 
  on 
  their 
  migratory 
  movements 
  ; 
  

   while 
  Mr. 
  Aplin, 
  in 
  his 
  ' 
  Birds 
  of 
  Oxfordshire,' 
  states 
  that 
  April 
  7th 
  is 
  

   the 
  latest 
  date 
  in 
  spring 
  on 
  which 
  he 
  has 
  known 
  Golden 
  Plover 
  to 
  

   appear 
  (in 
  that 
  county). 
  I 
  do 
  not 
  know 
  what 
  the 
  record 
  is 
  in 
  North- 
  

   amptonshire, 
  as 
  I 
  have 
  not 
  the 
  late 
  Lord 
  Lilford's 
  books 
  to 
  refer 
  to. 
  — 
  

   A. 
  H. 
  Etches 
  (Meriden, 
  near 
  Coventry 
  i. 
  

  

  