588 Alexander Goodman More Scientific Papers. 



*Alauda arborea (Linn.) Woodlark. 



Very local and scarce, but has been recorded as resident in small 

 numbers in the counties of Antrim, Down, Armagh, Dublin, 

 Waterford, and Cork (Thompson.} Wicklow (Waiters:] 

 Perhaps still breeds in the valley of the Blackwater, Co. Cork, 

 near which it has been taken of late years. Extinct in Water- 

 ford, Dublin, Armagh, Down, and Antrim. Two specimens 

 captured in winter, by Mr. W. Corbet, at Rathcormack, county 

 Cork, have been presented to the Museum by Mr. A. G. More. 

 Mr. Corbet remarks that he has only met with the Woodlark, 

 when the ground is covered with snow. One was shot at the 

 Tearaght Lighthouse, 20th October, 1887. (Migration Rep. 

 for i88;).t 



Calandrella brachydactyla (Leisl.) Short-toed Lark. 



Has once occurred. At the Blackrock Lighthouse, Mayo, nth 

 Oct., 1890. (Zoologist, 1891, p, 1 86.) 



EMBERIZIDJE. 



Plectrophanes nivalis (Linn.) Snow Bunting. 



Winter visitor, occurring regularly in the North, but rarely in the 

 middle and South of Ireland. 



Plectrophanes lapponicus (Linn.) Lapland Bunting. 



Has once occurred. A female was picked up dead on the Fastnet 

 Rock, county Cork, October i6th, 1887. (Zoologist, 1888, 

 p. 76, and Migration Report for 1887, p. 142.) 



*Emberiza schoeniclus (Linn.) Reed Bunting. 



Resident and common. More scattered in winter. 



*Emberiza miliaria (Linn.) Bunting. 



Resident ; rather local, but widely distributed. 



*Emberiza citrinella (Linn.) Yellow Bunting. 

 Resident and numerous. 



Emberiza hortulana (Linn.) Ortolan. 



Once obtained. The specimen now in the Museum and stated to 

 have been taken in Clare, was exhibited by the late Mr. R. J. 

 Montgomery before the Dublin Nat. Hist. Society, May, 1852. 

 (Proceedings, Vol. i, p. 91.) 



FRINGILLIDJE. 



*Fringilla coelebs (Linn.) Chaffinch. 



Resident and abundant. Often taken at Lighthouses when 

 migrating. 



t In 1894, Mr. John Hunter discovered the Woodlark nesting in the vicinity 

 of Woodenbridge, Co. Wicklow (Mr. R. J. Ussher, in R.I.A. Proc. (3), III., 

 No. 3 ; and Irish Naturalist, 1894, p. 137.) 



