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A White Swallow.— Having shot a perfectly white Swallow or 

 Swift on my lands at Camass near BrufF, Co. I/imerick, on the 25th inst. 

 I should be glad if any of your readers could inform me if they ever have 

 seen one. The common Swallows were hunting this bird as if they did 

 not like it. 



J. V. Bevan. [Iu Limerick Chronicle, August 28.J 



[Mr. Williams reports that this specimen is a Swallow {Hirundo rustica) 

 and a genuine albino, having pink eyes. He has received this year two 

 other white Swallows, which, however, had eyes of the normal colour, 

 and also an albino Sand martin {Cotyle riparia) from other Irish localities. 

 —Eds.] 



Birds of Con nemara.— Referring to Mr. Witherby's statement 

 that he has met with the Dunlin, as Mr. Palmer has the Ringed Plover, 

 in the breeding season on Lough Corrib, I beg to say that no one need be 

 suprised at either, for both species have a wide breeding-range on the 

 Irish inland lakes. 



I have a list of eighteen counties in which the Dunlin has either been 

 found breeding or met with in June under circumstances denoting that 

 it bred there. I have taken Dunlins' eggs in Londonderry, Donegal 

 and Westmeath, and seen it on many a lake in June, including the 

 Shannon lakes and callows of the Shannon down to the Clare shores of 

 Lough Derg. 



I have found a Ringed Plover's nest on Lough Sheelin under a willow. 

 That Oyster-catchers should prefer the tops of islands to the shingl}'^ 

 beach is nothing unusual. On the Donegal coast last June I saw many 

 nests, usually in crannies or hollows of the rocks, far up above the tide. 

 On the Saltees they breed more frequently in hollows of the turfy sod on 

 the top of the great hill, 2qo feet high, than on the shingly beach. I saw 

 one Oyster-catcher's nest there among the beans in a bean-field. They 

 usually select spots on the hill where knobs of rock surround the 

 nesting-hollow, but sometimes breed on the flat turf among vshort 

 bracken. 



In parts of Connemara, where there are no sea-cliffs, I should expect 

 Black Guillemots to breed under the huge boulders, to be found in so 

 many places, forming a chaos of rock. I have seen the birds there. At 

 the Cliffs of Moher I saw none, but Black Guillemots were seen evidently 

 breeding about a low limestone island off the little port of Fisherstreet, 

 in the horizontal fissures of which they must have had their breeding 

 nook. Fisherstreet is over a mile from the cliffs. 



R. J. USSHER, Cappagh. 



Carrion Crow (Corvus Coronc) In Co. Antrim.— Whilst 

 conchologising in the woods round Murlough Bay, during the early 

 part of September last, my friend Mr. J. Ray Hardy picked up a recently 

 dead specimen of this bird. It was a fully plumaged bird of the year and 

 quite fresh. The incident would have passed without comment on our 

 part, if a remark made by Mr. R. Welch (who was with us) to the effect 



