568 Alexander Goodman More Scientific Papers. 



by her late husband, and found this specimen, already recorded by 

 Thompson, to be also certainly Baillon's Crake. It is singular that the 

 Little Crake has not yet occurred in Ireland,* and another bird which I 

 am looking for is the Pink-footed Goose, both of which might be expected 

 to occur. 



SPINOUS SHARK ON THE COAST OF DUBLIN. 

 [ZOOLOGIST, November, 1882.] 



On the 25th of September last I saw, lying in the shop of a fish- 

 monger in William Street, Dublin, a fine specimen of the Spinous 

 Shark (Echinorhinus spinosus, Blainv.), which I was informed had been 

 captured near Skerries, about 15 miles to the north of Dublin. This is, 

 I believe, the first record of the occurrence of this rare fish in Ireland. 



WHITE'S THRUSH IN MAYO. 

 [ZOOLOGIST, April, 1885.] 



A fine specimen of this very rare Thrush (Turdus varius, Pallas) has 

 been presented to the Museum of Science and Art, Dublin, by Captain 

 Robert Ruttledge-Fair, who informs me that he shot it early in January 

 last (about the Qth) at Westport, Co. Mayo. It was killed " while 

 beating a wood for Woodcock. It rose from thick under-wood, and 

 flew much like a Woodcock, for which it was at first mistaken." This is 

 the third specimen of this Thrush which has been procured in Ireland. 



REDSTART BREEDING IN IRELAND. 



[FIELD, July tfh, 1885.] 



Hitherto the Redstart has only been known as a very rare and 

 accidental visitor to Ireland : but this summer two pairs have built their 

 nest and reared their young within the deer park demesne at no great 

 distance from the well-known waterfall at Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow. 

 The birds were first observed and identified by a lady who has for many 

 years paid much attention to our native birds ; and on Saturday last, 

 having been conducted to the spot by my friend the Rev. Dr. Benson, 

 I had the pleasure of watching the parent birds for more than an hour, 

 and of seeing and handling two of the young birds which had recently 

 left the nest. I was also shown the nest itself, placed in a low wall, and 

 learned from its discoverer that another pair, with their young brood, 

 had been observed in the immediate vicinity. 



*Mr. More seems here to have overlooked Canon Tristram's record of the 

 " Little Olivaceous Gallinule" shot at Balbriggan in 1854 (Zoologist, 1854, p. 

 4298), but he quotes it in both editions of his List of Irish Birds. 



