ri4 THE FOWLER IN IRELAND. 



subsequently examined, showed no sign of any old 

 or recent wound. Captain Kinsey Dover shot a 

 fine male Eider Duck near Ballina some years since, 

 and presented it to the Dublin Museum. 



THE LONG -TAILED DUCK (Harelda glacialis] is 

 rarely seen except in the north of Ireland. One 

 was shot at Killorglin, co. Kerry, in 1871, and is in 

 Mr. Nelligan's collection at Tralee. I purchased 

 a fine male from a game dealer at Waterford in 



THE LONG-TAILED DUCK. 



the winter of 1879, and know of three others 

 obtained in Cork Harbour of late years, one by 

 myself in January 1878. These are some of the 

 few instances I have noted of this duck occurring 

 in the south. In the north it is, though scarce, 

 not quite so infrequent. Mr. Warren, of Ballina, 

 tells me that in 1856 he saw fifty together (nearly 

 all males) feeding outside the bar at the entrance to 

 the Moy estuary. Since that date, he adds, that 



