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for salmon now existing in the kingdom ; and, although the 

 season for fishing with nets was over, yet we noticed many fine 

 fish still making their way up the river. 



The house of Ballinahinch is very extensive, but almost to- 

 tally devoid of beauty : its situation, however, is good, being 

 backed by a splendid mountain, forming one of the Twelve 

 Pins. Near Steely's Inn, a few miles beyond Ballinahinch, 

 there are extensive quarries of green marble, as also a copper 

 mine, containing, I understand, very rich ore. 



Between this place and Ma'am nothing was noticed worthy 

 of being recorded here, except that, by attempting to take a 

 short cut over the mountains, we were benighted in the bogs, 

 and had the greatest difficulty in reaching our inn, where we 

 did not arrive until several hours after it had become quite 

 dark. 



The following day we left Connamara, highly delighted by 

 our visit to a district which I cannot but consider much more 

 interesting to an admirer of romantic wild scenery, than 

 even the celebrated lakes of Killarney ; and the surprising 

 number of rare plants which are here collected together, as 

 well as the nearly total ignorance which exists of its produc- 

 tions in the other departments of natural science, cannot fail 

 to make it peculiarly interesting to the scientific traveller. 



St. John's College, Cambridge, Jan, 15.1836. 



A List of Species of Birds and Mammiferous and Amphibious Animals, observed 

 in Connamara, in August 1835; drawn up by R. M. Lingwood, Esq. 

 Where no station is indicated the species ivas observed throughout the district. 

 c, common ; v. c, very common. 



Birds. — -d'quila Chrysaetos, ringtail ed eagle ; i/aliae v etus, osprey, 

 Oughterard. Falco Tinnunculus, kestrel, ^ccipiter/ringillarius, sparrow- 

 hawk, Ma'am. i?uteo cyaneus, hen harrier. Cinclus aquaticus, water 

 ousel, c. Sylvia Nubecula, robin, only one seen, Ma'am ; TVochilus, 

 willow wren, on bank of Lough Corrib, near Ma'am, ikfotacilla alba, pied 

 wagtail, v. c. ; Boarula, grey wagtail, v. c. Saxicola CEnanthe, wheatear, 

 Ma'am ; Rubfcola, .stonechat, Ma'am. Emberiza Citrinella, yellow ham- 

 mer, Ma'am, Pringilla domestica, common sparrow, Steely's Inn, the 

 only station observed; cannabina, grey linnet, v. c. Corvus Corax, raven, 

 Ma'am ; Cordne, crow, Ma'am ; <76rnix, hooded crow, called there 

 scraw crow, v. c. ; frugilegus, rook, a few observed at Tully ; -Monedula, 

 jackdaw, Oughterard; Pica, magpie, Oughterard. Troglodytes europae v us, 

 wren, Steely's Inn. i/irundo rustica, swallow, Oughterard. Cypselus 

 J v pus, swift, Tully, one only noticed. Tetrao scoticus, red grouse. 

 Hsematopus ostralegus, oyster catcher, Tully. J'rdea cinerea, heron, there 

 called crane, v. c. Numenius arquata, curlew, v. c. Totanus ochropus, 

 green sandpiper, Tully. tfcolopax Gallinago, snipe, c. yf nas 2?6schas, wild 

 duck, c. ; Crecca, teal. Phalacrocorax Carbo, cormorant, v. c, it frequents 

 both the lakes and the sea coast, iarus ridibundus, black-headed gull, 

 Tully ; tridactylus, kittiwake gull, Tully ; canus, common gull, Tully. 



Mammiferous Animals. — Zepus timidus var. hibernicus, Irish hare, c 



