I902, Patten. — List of Birds west of Di7igle, Co. Ken y. 129 



Llnota cannablna, Linu. Linnet. — Observed several flocks, but 

 none of them very large. 



L. flavlrostris, Ivinn. Twite — Very numerous and tame. 



Emberlza miliaria, Linn. Corn Bunting. — Observed .several ; they 

 appeared more numerous in winter. " Decreasing near Dingle " 

 ( Us s her. ) 



E. cltrlnella, Linn. Yei<i.ow Bunting.— Plentiful. 



Sturnus vulgrarls, Linn. Stari^ing. — Observed several in winter, 

 not many in summer. 



Pyrfhocorax graculus, Linn. Chough. — Plentiful at the extreme 

 western point of the peninsula, where flocks of a hundred might be 

 seen. On the 23rd August I obtained a splashed variety ; a specimen 

 with a few white feathers on the head and wings. I often observed the 

 Chough in ploughed fields and on the mountains, and on more than 

 one occasion I watched a pair of these birds perch on a church- 

 steeple. My friend, Rev. W. J. King, tells me that Choughs often 

 alighted on the roof of his late residence at Ballyferriter, a village 

 some five miles from the point of the peninsula. 



Pica caudata, Scop. Magpie. — Less numerous here than in many 

 other parts of Ireland. At the extreme west of the peninsula I did 

 not notice it, Ussher says "it becomes scarcer in the treeless 

 districts of Western Kerry," and my observations about Dicgle 

 corroborate this statement. In the winter I noticed four together 

 hopping on the middle of a road about three miles west of Dingle. 



Corvus tnonedula, Linn. Jackdaw. — Comparatively scarce at the 

 western end of the peninsula, its place on the cliffs being taken by the 

 Chough. Does not breed on the western islands of Kerry {Ussher). 

 About the town and outskirts of Dingle it is somewhat common. 



C CO rax, Linn. Raven. — Watched a pair from the cliff's of Dunmore 

 Head on August 15th. They were flying over the sea on a level with 

 the top of the cliff's. They frequently swooped, twisted, and chased 

 each other as if in play. Some of the natives of Dunmore (Dunquin) 

 informed me that a pair of the&e birds often appeared if a carcase 

 was lying about the district. 



C* cornix, Linn. Hooded Crow.— Plentiful, especially at the westerly 

 point of the peninsula. Ussher has noted that the Hooded Crows 

 west of Dingle have the grey parts lighter in colour and of a more 

 bluish tinge than those further east. 



Ci frugliegus, Linn. Rook.— Not plentiful at the westerly point of 

 the peninsula. Common close to Dingle. On the 29th December I 

 observed two splashed varieties. One had a large white patch on 

 the left wing. The head of the other was speckled black and white. 

 Both birds were feeding in a ploughed field in company with a small 

 flock of their own species. 



Alauda arvensis, Linn» Skyi«ark.— Generally distributed, More 

 numerous in winter. 



PICARI^* 



Cypselus apus, Linn. Swift.— Observed two on the nth August 

 near Dunmore Head* 



