CORN-CRAKE. 
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Hawker's total bag in fifty years was fifty-six. 
Mr. Dewar mentions ^ twelve and a half brace being 
killed by one gun in a few days' partridge shooting in the 
north of the county. 
Kelsall has not heard a corn-crake for the past seven 
years in Milton, but has seen one in spring, and he believes 
that it occurs there regularly in the autumn. During the 
summer of 1904 there was certainly an unusual scarcity of 
this species throughout the county. 
In the Isle of Wight the bird is not so common as on 
the mainland, but very large numbers sometimes occur in 
September. Bury mentions eighty-five being killed in one 
season, and forty in one afternoon. 
Dr. Cowper 2 says a good number are shot every 
autumn. 
Mr. Poole says it nests sparingly, but it is abundant in 
autumn. 
One or two have been obtained in mid-winter in the 
island (More), and three were killed near Ringwood, in 
December, 1890. (Corbin).^ 
Porphyria. 
Porphyrio coeritleus. Purple Gallinule. 
One obtained at Redbridge in February, 1864. (Reeks, 
Zoologist." 1866.) 
One shot on the Hamble River in 1867. (Hawker, 
"Zoologist." 1867.) 
One procured at Basing in 1889. (Sclater.) 
' "Wild Life in Hampshire Highlands," p. 237. = " Hants Court Guide." 
3 " Zoologist." May, iSgi, 
