io2 The I fish Naturalist. June, 



Mr. Kennedy states that this was the only occasion during 

 his six years residence that any birds were killed. 



RocKABiLL.— Mr. Henry T. Murphy, light -keeper, when 

 interviewed, said " the niglit of March 29th was dark ; 

 wind E.S.E. light, with drizzling rain, and that about 150 

 birds were killed, chiefly Starlings, one Woodcock, and one 

 Manx Shearwater, and a large number of Blackbirds and 

 Thrushes. Several Water -rail and Curlew were observed flving 

 about." 



On March 31st I received from this station : — Four 

 Woodcocks, one Snipe, one Meadow-Pipit, two Water-rail, 

 one Dunlin ; all said to have been killed on the night of 

 the 30th. Possibly they struck on the previous night and 

 were not found till the day after. Rockabill lighthouse 

 is four miles from shore. 



HowTH Bailey Lighthouse. — No report has yet 

 reached me from the light -keeper, but the Secretary of 

 the Irish Lights Board writes that the fog-siren was choked 

 with dead birds on the night of April ist. 



No account has yet been received from three lightships, 

 all situated about ten miles from shore, along the Dublin 

 and Wicklow coasts, namely, the Kish, the Codlings, and 

 North Arklow. 



South Arklow. — Ten miles from the north Wexford 

 coast. Mr. J. J. Reilly, light-keeper, writes: — "March 

 30th, Blackbirds, Starling, and Thrushes in large numbers 

 about the ship all night ; from 8 p.m. on 29th to 4 a.m. some 

 hundreds striking, 40 killed, ^^"ind light, N.E., hazy. March 

 31st, Blackbirds, Starling, Thrushes in large numbers about 

 ship all night until 6 a.m. Wind light N.E., hazy. Birds 

 going N.N.W., 80 killed striking. The ship was covered 

 with Starlings and Blackbirds on the morning of the 31st, 

 and on April ist Starlings in lumibers rested on the ship, 

 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and then flew N.W." Leg and 

 wing of Water-rail received. 



A " Chaffinch and Goldfinch " also seen. Two Gold- 

 crests (leg and wing of one received) were killed striking on 

 April 2nd, and in this connection it may be observed that 

 two Goldcrests were forwarded from Rathlin Island, a 

 lighthouse on the north coast of Ireland, on April ist. 



