32 The Irish Naturalist, April, 



Mr, Farran has sent me eighteen observations of Great Shearwaters 

 made on the same occasions and places as those of the Fulmars ; but 

 these Great Shearwaters uere only met with from August to November 

 inclusive, while their absence at other seasons is specially mentioned. 



The notes I now refer to include those given in the Irish Naturalist 

 for 1907, p. 163. The Sooty Shearwater is said not to have been met 

 with in 1906-7, though Mr. H. Becher found both Great and Sooty 

 Shearwaters in some numbers off the same coast in 1900 and 1901 {Irish 

 Nat, 1901, p- 42, and 1905, p. 43). 



R. J. USSHER. 



Cappagh, Co. Waterford. 



Pink-Footed Goose in Co. Roscommon. 



It might be of interest 10 some of your readers to know that on the 

 1 7thof February I shot at Rockingham, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, a Pink- 

 footed Goose, this being only the second occasion on which it has ever 

 been secured in Ireland. 



I was waiting on an island on Lough Key for Beau Geese which 

 frequent this lake, and I shot this bird, which was one of two that came 

 over me. I think it probable that these two were the only ones of that 

 species, though there may have been more among the Bean Geese. 



Unfortunately I left the next day, and had, therefore, no further op- 

 portunity of finding out for certain. The bird is being set up bj' 

 Williams and Son, of Dame-street. 



Henry G. O. Bridgeman. 

 Royal Hospital, Dublin. 



Mayo Birds. 



To the February Zoologist Mr. Robert Warren supplies *' Some Ornitho- 

 logical Notes from Mayo and Sligo," dealing chiefly with the migratory 

 movements of the White Wagtail. 



GEOLOGY. 



Coastal Features in Co. Waterford. 



In an article in the Geolojcal Magazine, (5) vol. iv., Jan., 1907, 

 F. R. Cowper Reed discusses the stretch of coast on the west side of 

 Waterford Harbour, lying between Credan Head on the south and 

 Knockavelish Head on the north, and known as Fornaght Strand. About 

 the middle of this area, and 200 yards from the present sea-margin, is an 

 Old Red Sandstone ridge which terminates abruptly in what the writer 

 considers to Ijc an old sea-cliff produced by marine erosion. This con- 

 clusion gains support from the existence of Ci) an old rock platform 

 preserved beneath the drift deposits at the north end of the strand and 



