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accounted scarce visitors to England, and it was only a few 
years after that they were found to breed here.” Mr. R. M. 
Barrington records the occurrence of the American Snowbird 
(Junco hiemalis) at Loop Head Lighthouse, Co. Clare, on 
May 30th, 1905, and as the latter part of his article seems 
to betray a doubt respecting an “ assisted passage,” we wish 
to point out that no stepping-stones are known to exist for 
this species between the American Continent and Ireland. 
Herr Winge strongly denies any authentic record for 
Greenland, and Temminck (who assigned “the banks of 
Newfoundland” to the Great Auk for a breeding-place) 
is alone responsible for the “ migrations ” of this Finch to 
Ireland. Therefore the crossing of the Atlantic between 
Ireland and Iceland by the White Wagtail, Wheatear, &c. 
are not parallel cases. The writer of this notice is unable 
to believe that a Finch can, without food, fly direct across 
1760 miles of ocean, and that is the shortest distance claimed 
for the new route between Newfoundland and Iveland. 
Mr. Barrington has a second record—namely, that of 
Hypolais polyglotta, from Old Head Lighthouse, Kinsale, 
Co. Cork, on September 23rd, 1905. Mr. Robert Patterson 
institutes a comparison between the avifauna of Ireland and 
that of the Isle of Man, as set forth in Mr. P. G. Ralfe’s 
recent work. A photograph of a surf-lashed basaltic cliff in 
Co. Derry shews the site of a nesting-place of the Tree- 
Sparrow (Passer montanus), a rare species in Ireland. 
Mr. N. H. Foster was the discoverer of this new locality. 
Many interesting records are to be found among the minor 
notices.—H. 8S. 
68. Jourdain on European Birds’ Eggs. 
[The Eggs of European Birds. By the Rev. Francis C. R. Jourdain, 
Part II. London, 1907. 8vo. Pp. 81-160, pls. 16-20; 24, 25; 39, 40; 
44; 52; 113; 121, 122.] 
We have now received the second part of this most useful 
work, and congratulate the author on his success in bringing 
the subject so thoroughly up to date in a comparatively 
