A List of Irish Birds. 613 



Harelda glacialis (Linn.) Long-tailed Duck. 



Rare winter visitor in small numbers, chiefly occurring in the North 

 of Ireland, on salt water. 



Somateria mollissima (Linn .) Eider Duck. 



Very rare winter visitor. Has been obtained some twelve to fifteen 

 times in Ireland. Seldom seen on fresh water, but has been 

 twice shot on Lough Neagh. 



Somateria spectabilis (Linn.) King Eider. 



Extremely rare winter visitor. Has occurred five times. In the 

 counties of Antrim, Kerry (2), and Dublin (Thompson}. A 

 young malj in Achill, December, 1892, (Zoologist, 1894, p. 

 151). The specimen from Kingstown is in the Trinity 

 College Museum. 



CEdemia nigra (Linn.) Common Scoter. 



Regular winter visitor, but local. Numerous about Belfast and 

 Dundalk, rare in the South and West of Ireland. 



(Edemia fusca (Linn.) Velvet Scoter. 



Rare winter visitor, occurring often far out at sea, chiefly found off 

 the eastern coast. 



(Edemia perspicillata (Linn.) Surf Scoter. 



Native of America. Has occurred four times in Ireland, viz., one 

 in Belfast Bay, 1 9th September, 1846. (Thompson). Another, 

 obtained at Clontarf, Dublin, Oct., 1880, is recorded by Sir R. 

 Payne -Gallwey. (Fowler in Ireland,^. 113.) A young male 

 shot at Crookhaven Harbour on the 5th November, 1888 

 (Zoologist, 1889, p. 32), is in the possession of R. M. Barring-ton. 

 A female obtained in Achill and sent to me by Mr. J. R. 

 Sheridan, shot 25th October, 1870 (Zoologist, 1894, p. i5i).f 



Mergus merganser (Linn.) Goosander. 



Winter visitor in severe weather, and rather rare, occurring chiefly 

 on fresh water. 



*Mergus serrator (Linn.) Red-breasted Merganser. 



Breeds regularly on most of the large lakes and estuaries in the 

 North and West of Ireland, from Kerry, Tipperary, Westmeath, 

 and Louth, becoming much more numerous in winter on the 

 coasts, and wanders far up the tidal rivers. 



Mergus albellus (Linn.) Smew. 



Rare and uncertain winter visitor, occurring frequently on fresh, 

 as well as salt, water. Old males are very scarce. 



fin addition to the above instances, Mr. Robert Warren records (7mA 

 Naturalist, 1897, p. 59) the occurrence of a pair of Surf Scoters near Killala, in 

 December, 1896, both of which he shot, and which are now in the Dublin 

 Museum. 



