A Nesting Haunt of the Scoter 



a solitary island lying far out in the lough, where a colony 

 of sandwich terns breed, and although the Atlantic is fully 

 twenty-five miles distant, the birds, I believe, do not fish 

 in the lough, which is a fresh-water one, but regularly make 

 the fifty-mile flight throughout the day, returning, apparently 

 unwearied, with their catch of sand-eels. 



I had hoped to visit this island also, but the weather 

 rendered this impossible, and I had to rest content with 

 having identified a nesting scoter on an Irish lough, where 

 it is to be hoped the birds will remain undisturbed and 

 increase their numbers. 



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