igii- Barrington. — Rnsk of Birds on March 29M-30///. 99 



Carlow. — A correspondent of the Freeman's Journal at 

 Carlow reports that :— " On the night of March 29th the 

 sky was almost obscured by vast numbers of Curlew and 

 Starling, which were reinforced by Wild Duck, Blackbirds, 

 Thrushes and Woodquests. The streets were practically 

 littered in the morning with the bodies of dead birds." 

 He also reports that a great multitude of Starlings was 

 observed over Bagenalstown, which is also on the river 

 Barrow, about twelve miles further south, and that on the 

 following day a man ploughing in a field near the town, 

 reported that Starlings were continually alighting on the 

 plough, and on the horses. 



Mr. Haughton, of Carlow, writes : — "I noticed the 

 following birds dead on the morning of the 30th, Starlings 

 and Redwings, the former in large numbers, and one 

 Brambling, a rare visitor. About fifty birds were found 

 dead on my premises. For a day or two afterwards I 

 noticed large flocks of Seagulls and other birds about the 

 locality. The migration evidently came jrom the S^.W. 

 judging by the position in which the dead birds were found. 

 There were a few Wild Duck and other birds among them, 

 but I think they joined the flocks as they passed over the 

 country. Some accounts of the flight are much exagger- 

 ated." 



Kilkenny. — An Irish Times correspondent writes 

 on March 30th : — " It may interest some of your readers 

 to know that during last night hundreds of birds of various 

 kinds. Curlew, Thrush, Blackbird, Sparrow, etc., fell dead. 

 The roads leading to Kilkenny and the market place in 

 the city, were the places where they were most noticed, 

 but even the surrounding fields had their quota." 



Carrick-on-Suir. — Mr. J. Ernest Grubb, writing on 

 March, 30th, says : — " The bird migration has been most 

 extraordinary here. Starhngs, Cormorants, Herons, Curlew, 

 Thrushes, Blackbirds, Snipe, Redwing, and Gulls. A 

 man who lives on the bank of the Suir told me that at 

 about eleven or twelve o'clock he was awakened by the 

 screaming of birds, and dressed and went out, and in the 

 light of a gas lamp saw eight or nine Herons, two dozen 

 Gulls and Water -rails, and five or six Cormorants and 



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