136 The Irish Naturalist. June, 



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I The following is a list of birds of common occurrence and 



i wide distribution, which, it is likely, I overlooked on the 



I Dingle peninsula. 



Field-fare. Common Scoter, 



i Ring Ousel. Red-breasted Merganser. 



, Golden-crested Wren. Red Grouse. 



! ChifT-chaff. . Land Rail, 



i Sedge Warbler. Water Rail. 



Great Titmouse. • * Moor-hen. 



j Coal Titmouse. " ' Coot. 



' Pied Wagtail. * Woodcock. 



Spotted Flycatcher. • Jack Snipe. 



Sand Martin. ' Purple Sandpiper. 



Lesser Redpoll. _ Knot. 



Reed Bunting. Sauderling. 



Night-jar. Common Sandpiper. 



Cuckoo. ' Bartailed Godwit. 



j Long-eared Owl. . Arctic Tern. 



! Sparrow Hawk. Little Tern. 



j Gre3'-lag Goose. Black Guillemot. 



J _ Be-nrick's Swan. Great Northern Diver. 



I Mallard. Red- throated Diver. • 



\ Teal. Great Crested Grebe. 



i ' Pochard. Little Glebe. 



I Scaup. Storm Petrel. 

 I Golden-eye. 



j From the foregoing list it may be seen that many common 



j and widely distributed birds were overlooked. This could 



I hardly be avoided, owing to the very limited time which I 



j had at my disposal to spend on the penin.sula. I made two 



j short visits, one in the summer, during the latter three weeks 



] of August, 1897; the other in the following winter, from 



; December 26th to January'' 5th, 1898. 



\ Although ni}' second visit was much the shorter of the two, 



i I observed more species at that time than in the summer ; 



large numbers of winter migrants having made their arrival. 



These greatly exceeded in numbers the summer migrants 



which had departed. 



Unfortunately, opportunity was not afforded me of exploring 



the district in mid-autumn, so that I cannot say that a few of 



the commoner species of passing autumnal migrants did not 

 i touch on the shores of the peninsula. Such birds as the 



Skuas, the Curlew Sandpiper, the lyittle Stint, and perhaps 



the RufFand Black-tailed Godwit, may, at all events, be pro- 

 — viBit)nally included in the avi-fauna of West Dingle. 



