A List of Irish Birds.. 607 



Podiceps griseigena (Boddaert). Red-necked Grebe. 



Very rare and accidental winter visitor, chiefly found on salt water. 

 Only five or six specimens have been obtained in Ireland. One 

 shot many years ago in Inver Bay, Donegal, is in the 

 Museum. 



Podiceps auritus (Linn.) Sclavonian Grebe. 



Regular winter visitor, in small numbers. Usually found on salt 

 water. 



Podiceps nigricollis (C. L. Brehm). Eared Grebe. 



Very rare and accidental visitor, chiefly on salt water, in winter, 

 but has twice occurred, in full summer plumage, in June. 



*Podiceps fluviatilis (Tunstall). Little Grebe. 



Resident and common. Often found on the sea in winter. 



ORDER STEGANOPODES. 



PELECANIDJE. 

 *Phalacrocorax carbo (Linn.) Common Cormorant. 



Resident and common. Fishes on freshwater far inland, and 

 occasionally breeds on trees on islands in freshwater lakes. 

 As inland nesting localities may be mentioned Lough Cutra, 

 Lord Gough's seat in Galway, where Lord Gough tells me that 

 from eighty to one hundred birds breed annually. The cormo- 

 rant has also been found nesting on a few small lakes in 

 Connemara, and in Mayo. Along the Blackwater, below 

 Mallow. In tall bare trees over the Blackwater at Cregg 

 (Mr. Longfield}. Hermitage Island, Lough Key (Irish 

 Naturalist, 1893, p. 264). Lough Coole, Fermanagh (Mr. 

 Ussher]. A lake at Castlemartyr, co. Cork (Thompson). 



*Phalacrocorax graculus (Linn.) Shag. - 



Resident, especially abundant on the north-west coast. 



*Sula bassana (Linn.) Gannet. 



Breeds on the Little Skellig, co. Kerry, and on the Bull Rock, co. 

 Cork. Not on the Fastnet Rock (Zoologist, 1884, pp. 474 and 

 479-) 



ORDER HERODIONES. 

 ARDEID^E. 



*Ardea cinerea (Linn.) Common Heron. 



Resident, and common throughout Ireland, breeding in every 

 county. A fawn-coloured variety is in the Museum. Breeds 

 sometimes on sea-cliffs, as in the Dingle Peninsula, and 

 formerly in Waterford (Mr. R. J. Ussher}. Also on the 

 ground, as on Garumna Island, Galway. (Mr. G. H. 

 Kinahari}. Generally known as "Crane." 



