24 THE FOWLER IN IRELAND. 



Green Plover Black Plover, Peewit, Lapwing, Phillipene. 



Oyster-catcher ...... Seapie, Sea Mag. 



Heron Crane. 



Bittern Bog Drummer, Mire Drum, Brown Crane. 



Whimbrel Jack Curlew, May Bird, Little Curlew. 



Godwit Godwin. 



Solitary Snipe Little Woodcock, Double Snipe,Silent Snipe. 



Redshank . . . . Red-leg, Pool Snipe, Shore Snipe. 



Purple Sandpiper Rock Sandpiper. 



Avocet Scooper, Awl. 



Ibis Black Curlew. 



Sandpipers Sand Snipe. 



Dunlin Sea Lark, Mudlark, Purre, Stint, Ox-bird. 



Golden Eagle , . Ring-tailed Eagle, Black Eagle. 



Sea Eagle White-tailed Eagle. 



Osprey Fishing Hawk, Sea Hawk, Fishing Eagle. 



Peregrine Falcon Rock Hawk, Cliff Hawk, Blue Hawk. 



Manx Shearwater Mackerel Cock. 



Black Guillemot Rock Dove. 



Puffin Sea Parrot, Collahene. 



Tern Skur (a general name for the genus) some- 

 times Spurre or Sea Murre. 



Chough, Sea Crow, Red-legged Crow, Red-billed 



Jackdaw, Cliff Daw. 



Cormorant Calliachor Colliagh Dhuvs (Anglic**, Black 



hags). 



Green Cormorant Crested Cormorant, Skart. 



Some birds I have omitted as being either too 

 common or too rare to mention. Every one knows 

 that a Jack is called a " Half Snipe," and the 

 common species " a Full Snipe ;" and that such rare 

 birds as the Garganey or Ferruginous Duck are not 

 likely to have a nickname. 



As an illustration of how wildfowling is pursued 

 by the professional fowler in Ireland, Wexford offers 

 a good example on the east coast. I say nothing 

 of the west, for little single-handed punt-shooting 

 is there attempted, in consequence of its immense 

 estuaries and unsheltered bays. 



The fowlers of Wexford, of whom there are seven 



