4 The Irish NahwaUst. 



times during the winter {Zoologist, 1S91, p. 152). It was brought to 

 me for identification by Mr, Tank. 



7. Phalaropus hyperboreus, Linn. — Red-necked Phai^arope. 

 One shot at Lough Gill}-, Co. Armagh, was received by Mr. E. 

 Williams on the 13th November, 1892, and is now on loan at the 

 Science and Art Museum {Zoologist, 1892, p. 28.) 



8. Oceanites oceanica, Kuhl.— Wii^son's Petrei.. One at 

 Mossdale, Co. Down, 2nd October, 1891 (R. Patterson in Zoologist, 

 1891, p. 427). Another on Lough Erne, ist October, 1891 {Zoologist, 

 1891), was iDrought to me when quite fresh, by Mr. E. Williams. 

 A large flight of Petrels, chiefly the Forktailed, seem to have passed 

 over Ireland about this date. And Wilson's Petrel was also, for the 

 first time, obtained in Scotland, on the ist of October {Annals of 

 Scottish Nat. Hist., Januar}^ 1892). 



9. Anser brachyrhjrnchus, Baill. — Pink-footed Goose. One 

 shot on Lough S willy, Co. Donegal, about 19th October, 1891, was 

 sent to Mr. Robert Patterson, wdio was thus able to identify the 

 first authentic Irish specimen {Zoologist, 1892, p. 33). It must not 

 be forgotten, however, that the late Sir Victor Brooke had pre- 

 viously recognised this goose in Meath, but was not able to secure 

 a specimen. 



Some of the most interesting of these results are due to the 

 observ^ations carried out by the light-keepers on the Irish 

 Lighthouses, from 1882 to 1889, which were initiated and con- 

 tinued chiefly by my friend, Mr. R. M. Barrington. And we 

 may also hope that research has in some degree been stimu- 

 lated b}' the circulars and schedules which we have lately 

 issued in preparation for a new work on the Birds of Ireland, 

 and also by the schedules w4iich have been circulated by 

 Messrs. R. PaJ:terson and R. LI- Praeger for their forthcoming 

 Fauna of Ulster. 



There remains one bird to be struck off the list, the Gull- 

 billed Tern, Sterna anglica Mont., which was erroneously 

 announced in the Zoologist (1887, p. 433), as having occurred 

 near Belfast ; but this specimen, which I had the opportunity 

 of examining, proves to be an Arctic Tern, in an unusual 

 state of plumage, being apparently a late-hatched bird of the 

 previous year, which has nearly attained the mature plumage, 

 but in which the black bill and legs, and the dark feathers 

 along the ridge of the wing remain as signs of immaturity ; 

 and I may add that Mr. Barrett-Hamilton has shown me a 

 very similar bird, which he obtained on the coast of Wexford. 



SEA- WEEDS FROM THE WEST COAST OF IRELAND. 



BY PROP. T. JOHNSON, D. SC, F.I,.S. 



SiNCK the publication of the unrivalled work — Phycologia 

 ■Britamiica — in the years 1846-52, b}^ the late Professor Harvey 

 of Trinity College, Dublin, one hundred species have been 

 added to the list of the marine Algae of the British Isles, so 



