220 The Irish Natin-alist. November, 19 13. 
Tree-Pipits and Pied Flycatcher on Migration at Tuskar Light. 
A Tree-Pipit was obtained on Tuskar Rock, on August 31st. Two 
were obtained striking on the night of 3rd-4th September, and two on 
the night of the 4th-5th September. Two were found dead in the 
early morning of September 5th. To Mr. Glanville, Principal Keeper, 
I owe my cordial thanks for his kindness in forwarding the specimens 
and particulars. I hope to publish details later on. 
On September 5th, at 2.40 a.m., a Pied Flycatcher struck the Tuskar 
lighthouse, and has been forwarded to me in the flesh by Mr. Glanville. 
I am greatly indebted to Mr. M'Ginle}' for collecting the specimen. 
University, Sheffield. C. J. Patten. 
Tree Pipit and Pied Flycatcher at Rockabill. 
On the 3rd of September, Mr. F. J. Duffy, lightkeeper at Rockabill, 
Co. Dublin, found two birds dead at the base of the tower ; one, he sug- 
gested, might be a Short -toed Lark, the other, with white on its wings, 
he did not know. Both were forwarded to me in the flesh ; the " Lark " 
proved to be a female Tree-Pipit in fair condition, the other, a young 
Pied Flycatcher. 
Dr. Patten has already recorded {Irish Nat., November, 1912, p. 209) 
the Tree -Pipit from the Tuskar Rock, Co. Wexford ; one obtained on 
September loth, another on September 22nd, being the first authentic 
occurrences in Ireland. Although Dr. Patten states that he was familiar 
with the appearance of the Tree-Pipit at Sheffield, he does not appear 
to have recognised it at first. He suggests that it was emigrating from 
Ireland, and that Irish ornithologists should use every effort to prove 
that it breeds there. 
This species has been met with in some numbers by Mr. Eagle Clarke 
in St. Kilda in the autumn and is a great straggler, and the fact of its 
occurrence in September at the Irish light -stations does not prove that 
it breeds here and was emigrating, any more than the Pied Flycatcher, 
which was got dead at the same time, being the eleventh autumnal speci- 
men of this species forwarded to me from Irish lighthouses since 1886. 
RiCHD. M. Barrington. 
Fassaroe, Bray. 
Aquatic Warbler on Migration at Tuskar Light- station. 
I have had the pleasure of identifying an Aquatic Warbler from Tuskar 
Hght -station. I am much obliged to Mr. Glanville, who picked the bird 
up dead on the rock at 4.45 a.m. on August 9th, and sent it to me in the 
flesh. Full particulars will be given later. 
C. J. Patten. 
Universitv, Sheffield. 
