598 Alexander Goodman More Scientific Papers. 



OTIDIDJE. 

 Otis tetrax (Linn.) Little Bustard. 



Has five times been obtained. One in Wicklow, 1833. (Thompson}. 

 One on the shore of Ballycotton Bay, 24th December, 1860. 

 (Zoologist, 1861, p. 7385.) One shot near Belmullet, Mayo, in 

 December, 1887, is recorded by Dr. Scharff as recently added 

 to the collection. (Zoologist, 1888, p. 108.) Another killed 

 near Youghal, has very kindly been lent to the Museum by the 

 owner, Mr. H. F. Allin. (Field, December 8, 1883. Zoologist, 

 1884, p. 69.) A fifth shot near Ballyduff, Kerry, 3oth Decem- 

 ber, 1892, was examined by me, i8th January, 1893. f 

 Obs. Smith includes the Great Bustard among the Birds observed 

 in Cork, but with no particulars ; and as he gives also the 

 Black Grouse in his list, no reliance can be placed upon either 

 statement. (Antient and Present State of Cork, vol. ii., 

 p. 3291750.) 



ORDER LIMICOL^E. 



CEDICNEMID^E. 



(Edicnemus scolopax (S. G. Gmel.) Stone Curlew. 



Very rare visitor in autumn and winter. Has occurred six or eight 

 times in Ireland. A specimen from Tramore, Waterford, is in 

 the Museum, from the collection of the Natural Hist. Society 

 of Dublin. Another, obtained on the North Bull, Dublin, on 

 the 3rd December, 1884, is also in the Museum. 

 [The Collared Pratincole ( Glareola pratincola} is believed to have 

 once occurred at Castlefreke, Cork, previous to 1843 (Harvey, 

 " Fauna of Cork," and Thompson, vol. ii., p. 81) ; but depends 

 solely upon the authority of the Rev. Joseph Stopford, whom 

 Dr. Harvey describes as "well acquainted with our native 

 birds," adding that "the minute description which he gave 

 me leaves no doubt as to his correctness. The specimen was 

 not preserved" (Fauna of Cork, ii.) But Rev. J. Stopford is 

 also authority for a Great Auk stated to have been washed 

 ashore at Castlefreke (Thompson, vol. iii., 239). This is said 

 to have been communicated to Dr. Harvey in February, 1844 ; 

 but is omitted by Harvey in Faun. Cork. (1845.)] 



CHARADRIID^E. 



Endromias morinellus (Linn.) Dotterel. 



Very rare and accidental visitor. One obtained in co. Donegal, 

 and two shot on the hills near Clonmel, in September, 1886, 

 are in the Museum. 



tA sixth shot at Longford in February, 1895, is recorded in the Irish 

 Naturalist, 1895, p. 105. 



