224 The Irish Naturalist, July, T907. 



Glaucous Gull in Co. Antrim. 



On the 25th February I received an immature specimen of above in the 

 flesh, posted from Ballycastle, Co. Antrim. On writing to my corres- 

 pondent I learnt it had been shot by him on Rathlin Island, on the 19th 

 ult., it having been seen on the previous day with other gulls, and he 

 considered it to be a stranger by its larger size. It measured from tip of 

 bill to end of tail 27 inches. 



W. C. Wright. 

 Belfast. 



Movement of Birds during Snow. 



The westward rush of Redwings, Fieldfares, and Lapwings which I 

 observed here during the snow-storm of December 26th to 28th, 1906, 

 has been noticed in Country Life by Sir Douglas Brooke in Co. Fer- 

 managh. My experience here is that whenever hard frost and snow set 

 in there is a general movement to the west of the Thrush family, of 

 Larks, and other Passeres and Lapwings, which has.been traced along the 

 coasts of Cork to the very extremities of Kerry ; but I was not aware be- 

 fore that this was observable in Ulster. 



During the same dates in December the rush for life of Plover and of 

 many passerine species was remarked by Mr. Patlerson on the coasts of 

 Norfolk {Zoologist, 1906, p. 138), while in Sussex a westward or south- 

 westward passage or continuous stream of hundreds of thousands of birds 

 was described at St. Leonard's and Brighton {ibid., pp. 112, 113), and the 

 movement was noticed as far inland as Northfield {ibid., p. 74) ; but near 

 Reading Mr. Joy describes the many flocks he saw as passing due south, 

 crossing the valleys and ridges {ibid., p. 154). In December, 1874, at 

 Exmouth, Mrs. Croasdaile saw large flocks of Fieldfares and Redwings 

 passing S.W., but on the 4th January, 1875, after rain and thaw, a fine 

 morning brought a steady stream of these birds returning in a N.E. 

 direction {ibid., p. 153). 



R. J. USSHER 

 Cappagh, Co. Waterford. 



Irish Notes in the "Zoologist." 



The Zoologist for April contains notes on the Glaucous Gull in Co. 

 Antrim, by W. C. Wright, and on Kerry Bird-life, by Eric R. Duulop. 



The Zoologist for May contains a note on the status of the Grey 

 Wagtail, by Nevin H. Foster, and another on the Spring arrival of 

 Sandwich Terns in Killala Bay, by Robert Warren. 



