284 THE FOWLER IN IRELAND. 



shot here more than once. Snipe are plentiful, and 

 the Great Snipe is met with on the mountain on 

 which the lighthouse is built. It is about half as 

 large again as the Common Snipe, and lighter in 

 colour. I have seen several. A few Woodcock 

 only are to be found here during the period of 

 migration ; they then appear as if resting, for they 

 never remain more than a few days. But in Jan- 

 uary, 1 88 1 (the great frost), they came at the end 

 of the first week of the hard weather in immense 

 numbers, and stayed till the thaw. About two 

 hundred couple were shot during that time by the 

 local gunners round here. Plover also come in the 

 winter, but only in frost and snow, with the wind 

 from the north-east. 



They then arrive in vast numbers, both Golden 

 and Green. A large proportion of these birds 

 during the frost alluded to passed that period west- 

 ward of the Head, a very unusual thing for them to 

 do, for they are always observed in a severe frost to 

 fly out to sea in a southerly direction (G. Dun- 

 leary). 



Car ling ford Lighthouse, co. Down. 



A. Kennedy reports that the birds which strike 

 the glass, in small numbers, are Teal, Curlew, Sea- 

 gulls, Blackbirds, Thrushes, Starlings, and Larks. 



Dundalk Lighthouse, co. Louth. 



Bernicle come to this bay, but in far greater 

 numbers in some winters than in others. They were 



