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The Irish Naturalist. 



t March, 



The Hen Harrier is fast disappearing before the game- 

 keeper. It is difficult to ascertain where a bird thus marked 

 out for destruction still breeds, but there seems sufficient 

 reason for stating that it does so in Kerry and Galway. 



The Twite breeds still more commonly on elevated rocky 

 coasts than on inland mountains. 



The Nightjar is verj^ scarce in the North and West of 

 Ireland. 



The Golden Plover breeds on bogs not much above the sea- 

 level in Connemara, but usually on mountains. 



The Curlew breeds both on bogs and mountains, usually on 

 the great red bogs covered with heather which occupy so 

 much of the inland counties. 



IV.— FiFTKKN SpKCIKS THAT BREED ON I,AKES AND MARSHES. 



The circumstances of these species preclude their exhibiting 

 that similarity of distribution which can be traced in the 

 previous tables. 



