88 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



THE DISTRIBUTION IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS 

 OF THE SPOTTED CRAKE. 



By 0. V. Aplin. M.B.O.U, 



SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES. 



On the appearance of my article on the Spotted Crake (ZooL 

 1890, pp. 401 — 417) I received from several correspondents some 

 useful and interesting information upon the subject; and as 

 I was desirous that my account of the distribution of this bird 

 should be as complete as possible, I have decided to publish a 

 further instalment of statistics. My request for additional 

 information (Zool. 1890, p. 457) has brought me some valuable 

 notes, and the Editor has handed me — for incorporation in 

 this supplementary paper — three more which had been forwarded 

 to him. 



In the " Conclusion " (ii.) of my former paper (p. 413) the 

 parenthesis " (except in one instance) " should be inserted after 

 the wo rd" breeding." 



Nottinghamshire. — Mr. F. B. Whitlock, of Beeston, near 

 Nottingham, writes me word that all the Spotted Crakes he has 

 met with or heard of in that district "have occurred in September 

 and October." In a subsequent letter, of 25th Nov., he writes : 

 — " This morning my dog put one up almost at my feet : this is 

 my latest date for this district. I clearly identified it as it swam 

 across a drain." 



Cheshire. — Mr. E. Coomber records a specimen picked up 

 under the telegraph-wires, close to Neston, on the 26th August, 

 1890 (Zool. 1890, p. 390). 



Leicestershire. — Mr. F. B. Whitlock writes : — " Would pro- 

 bably breed every year were it not for the spring floods. Later 

 broods may get off, which may account for young birds being 

 met with late in October. I killed one on the 25th, this year, 

 near Barrow-on-Soar." 



Northamptonshire. — I am indebted to Lord Lilford for the 

 following note : — " Of late years I have come to regard this 

 species as a not very abundant, but pretty regular, autumnal 

 visitor to this immediate neighbourhood [Lilford]; but I have 



