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TABtfLAR YIBW OV BIRD* IN SONO IM BACH MONTB, MBAR DOMMYBROOB AMD 



MBBRIOB — cotUinueiL 



(8) sings; (b) records ; (..) not heard ; (•) not found at Donnybrook. 



Titlark (Anth. pratensU), . 

 Sboretlt (Anth. aquaticuB)', 

 Starling (St vulffa^U)^ . . 

 Groenflnch (CocE. chlorla)", 



OoUlflnch (Card, elegana), 



Siskin (C. spinas)*, 



Linnet (Lin. caunabina), 



Lesser do. (L.. minor), 



Mountain do. (L. montlum)*, . . 



Chattlnch (Frinji. coelebs)' 



Yellowliamnicr (Enib. cltrinella)«, . 

 Common Buntinp; (E. miliaria), . . 

 niock-lieiulcd do. (K. schueuiclos) . 



Woodlark (Al. arborca)>>, 



Skylark (AL arrenais) 



Wren (Trog. Europieaa), 



ChimneT Swallow (H. nistlca)', . . 

 Hooae Swallow (H. arbica)J, . . . 



Sand Martin (H. riparia^k 



Woodqnest (Col. palambos), . . . 

 (^mcrake (Crex. pratensis)', . . . 



Merrion. 



• Recording In December, in Tippcrary. 



'Rare straggler: sinpring, Rathgar, 1849. 



•Only breeds occasionally here ; recording In December, 18581 



' Seldom begins till February. 



« Rarely sings in winter. 



fcRaro; bre<rin Donnybrook, 1850. 



> Summer migrant, April till November, occasionally. 



J Siunmcr migrant, April till September. 



kDo., do. 



I Occasionally remains winter; smmner, migrant 



From this Table we find that in January, out of 45 species, 17 were noted; 

 1 recording. February, 27. March, 34, including 2 summer visitants. April, 

 37; summer birds, 7. May, 42; summer migrants, 11. June, 38; summer mi- 

 grants, 9. July, 22; summer migrants, 11 ; as the month advances, these drop 

 off one by one, so that in the middle of the month you seldom have more than 7 

 songsters, of which 5 are summer birds. August, 14; summer migrants, 5. 

 September, 10 ; summer migrants, 2. October, 1 1 ; summer visitants, 2. No- 

 vember, 9 (three very regularly). December, 11. 



I do not pretend to say that these all may be heard singing every year in the 

 months stated, but merely give this as an analysis of lists, taken not only in Don- 

 nvbrook, but in Clare, Tipperarv, Waterford, and Kilkenny— in all of which 

 places I have met with autumnal songsters, e. g. in Ardmore, county of Wa- 

 terford, where the larks were singing merrily every fine day last October on the 

 pastures alone the sea; and in Glenboniff, near Feacle, county of Clare, where, 

 on each fine day last August and September, you mig^ht hear on the shores of 

 Lough Grancy, the blue nun, the robin, Yarrell's wagtail, and the two buntings. 

 Last year (1852) was, indeed, a very favourable year for our autumnal singers, 

 as I find that the lark began at Donnybrook as early as the 5th of October, and 

 the robin on the 7th of August. The autumn of 1851 was also very favourable. 

 Thus on the 24th August, at Kilmogannv, county of Kilkenny, the following 

 were in song: — Robin, sedge-warbler, chiffchaff, wren, yellowhammer, 



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birds were in song: 



