A List of Irish Birds. 587 



MOTACILLID.E. 



*Motacilla lugubris (Temm.) Pied Wagtail. 

 Resident and common. Partially migratory. 



Motacilla alba (Linn.) White Wagtail. 



Very rare summer visitor. Has been twice obtained by Mr. R. 

 Warren, near Moyview; on the 25th April, 1851 (Dublin Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. Proceedings, Vol. in., p. 115) ; and on the 2Qth 

 April, 1893. (Zoologist, 1893, p. 226.) In 1893, also occurred 

 in Achill and at Downpatrick Head. (Zoologist, 1893, p. 227). 

 Mr. Blake Knox records having once observed it near Wexford. 

 (Zoologist, 1866, p. 95.) It was seen at Roundwood by the 

 late Dr. R. Ball. (Thompson.} 



*Motacilla sulphurea (Bechst.). Grey Wagtail. 



Resident in small numbers, and not unfrequent, but local. 



*Motacilla Rail (Bonap.) Yellow Wagtail. 



Summer visitor in small numbers, and very local. Breeds regularly 

 about Lough Neagh, and occurs every autumn in the vicinity 

 of Dublin, where also the nest has been once found by Mr. E. 

 Williams. More recently, Mr. R. Warren has discovered it 

 breeding by Loughs Mask and Carra, Mayo. Once observed 

 breeding in Galway. A female was shot in Achill Island, i5th 

 May, 1892 ; and Mr. A. Ellison has several times seen it near 

 Shillelagh, Wicklow, in the spring. 



*Anthus pratensis (Linn.) Meadow-Pipit. 



Resident and common. Partially migratory. 



Obs. The Tree-Pipit is thought to have been observed at Balli- 

 tore, Raheny, Portmarnock, and Irishtown, but no specimen 

 has been obtained in Ireland. The Rev. Dr. Benson tells me 

 that, since he has heard the Tree-Pipit singing in North Wales, 

 he feels some doubt as to the correctness of his identification 

 of the bird which he had observed near Dublin. 



*Anthus obscurus (Lath.) Rock-Pipit. 



Resident, and generally distributed on the sea-coast. 



ALAUDID^E. 



*Alanda arvensis (Linn.) Skylark. 



Resident and numerous. Partially migratory. 



Obs. The Crested Lark is stated in the "Dublin Penny Journal," 

 February 27, 1836, to have been killed near Taney, in the 

 county of Dublin, but does not appear to have been satis- 

 factorily identified. 



