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ground in the Land's End district." Murray Matthew, on 

 the other hand, in his " Birds of Devon," 1892, stated there 

 had been no recorded occurrence in the county since 1877. 

 Saunders, again, in 1899, alleges that it is apparently 

 extending its range west and north of late years. 



Whatever its present status may be, this solitary occur- 

 rence in Ireland, though very interesting and totally un- 

 expected, is not, I think, evidence of any special movement. 

 It may be due to a very strong south-easterly gale, which 

 swept across the mouth of the Channel on October 26th and 

 27th, blowing direct from south-west England to south-east 

 Ireland. Although its appearance may have been accidental, 

 it is conceivable, but improbable in the case of an autumn 

 immigrant, that, if accompanied b}^ a male specimen, a 

 colony might have been established in county Wexford, 

 where Furze is more prevalent than in any other Irish — or 

 probably English — county. 



The following is a complete list, in order of date, of the 

 birds, not recorded from Ireland previous to 1887, which 

 have since been sent to me from light -stations. These 

 are exclusive of racial forms of Wheatear, Willow-wren, etc. 



1887 Redbreasted Flycatcher 



1887 Lapland Bunting 



1889 Greenland Redpoll 



1890 Yellow -browed Warbler 

 1890 Lesser Whitethroat 

 1890 Short-toed Lark 



1892 Antarctic Sheathbill 



1893 Woodchat Shrike 

 1903 Aquatic Warbler 

 1905 Melodious Warbler 

 1905 American Snow-bird 



1907 Reed -Warbler 



1908 Pallas' Grasshopper -W^arbler 

 1908 Little Bunting 



19 10 Shore Lark 



191 2 Dartford Warbler 2 



Muscicapa parva 



Calcariiis lapponicus 



Linota rostrata 



Phylloscopus sitperciliosxis 



Sylvia curruca 



Alauda hrachydactyla 



Chionis alba 



Laniiis pomeranus 



A crocephalus aquaticits 



Hypolais polyglotta 



Jimco hycmalis 



Acrocephalus streperus 



Locust ella certhiola 



Emheriza pusilla 



Otocorys alpestris 



Sylvia unci at a 



Prof. C. J. Patten has obtained the Tree-Pipit at the 

 Tuskar this year.^ 



^ See C. J. Patten, supra, p. 209. 



2 Since I wrote this article, Professor Patten, of Sheffiekl, has — without 

 ever having seen the bird, and without ascertaining its age, sex, racial 

 form, or destination — written to Nature and to the Dublin daily Press 

 announcing its occurrence on the authority of the light -keeper to whom 

 its name was communicated by me. This explanation is given lest it 

 might be supposed that there were two specimens, 



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