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thus ending a most enjoyable and interesting visit to a line of 

 coast which, for the number and variety of the birds breeding 

 on it, and for its wild and rugged scenery, cannot be equalled 

 in Ireland, 



APPENDIX. 



In the first part of this report, published in the July number 

 of the Irish Naturalist^ I erroneously stated (page 182, line 5) 

 **that for six miles west of Kilcummin Head no breeding 

 haunt is met with until Downpatrick Head is reached." I 

 was unaware, until a few weeks ago, of the fact of birds breed- 

 ing in that part. I had never visited it, nor could I get 

 reliable information until my young friend, Mr. G. Scroope, 

 of Ballina, passing along the coast in an excursion steamer 

 on the 28th of June, observed several breeding stations on the 

 cliffs between Lacken Bay and Downpatrick Head. Stimulated 

 by this information, on the nth inst., in company of Mr. G. 

 Scroope, his father, and brother, I drove to Lacken Bay, and 

 then walked along the cliffs as far as Crevagh Head, where 

 we were obliged to return by heavy and persistent rain coming 

 on. 



We met five breeding stations of Kittiwake Gulls (the 

 smallest of about 130 pairs), while Razorbills and Guillemots 

 frequented each station. Herring Gulls were met with at only 

 two. A pair of Great Black-backed Gulls were also observed, 

 but not breeding, having evidently come from their great 

 breeding-haunt on Doonbrista, off Downpatrick Head, 



As Crevagh Head is only half-way to Downpatrick, many 

 other stations are probably on the unexplored cliffs extending 

 in that direction, which at some future time I hope to visit. 

 The Green Cormorants breed all along the line of coast, but 

 none of the Great species were seen anywhere on the clifis 

 during our walk. 



