224 The Zoologist— Mav, 1866. 



Marsh Tit. — Very rare. 



Pied Wagtail. — Resident. More plentiful in winter. There is a 

 great autumnal migration from Ireland. The greatest numbers may be 

 seen in the spring and autumn. Same remarks as redbreast. 



White Wagtail. — Is, I am sure, more plentiful than believed. That 

 it is mistaken in many cases for the pied, there can be little doubt, 

 the two species are so closely similar in their winter dress. 



Gray Wagtail. — More plentiful in winter than in summer. Often 

 very abundant in spring. 



Yellow Wagtail. — Rare ; occurred twice to myself in the summer 

 of 1860. 



Meadow Pipit. — Resident. Immense flocks in autuu)n may 

 regularly be seen crossing the channel from the east till as late as 

 December. 



Rock Pipit. — Resident. More abundant in winter. 



<SX-^ Lark. — Resident. Immense flocks come in winter and autumn 

 from the eastward. The sea-shore at times is covered with their dead 

 bodies : these are called " Scotch " and " Welsh " larks, but their 

 flight must have been more protracted to cause so strong a bird to 

 succumb and die. 



Crested Lark. — Once. 



Snow Bunting. — Autumnal and vernal migrants. Sometimes, and 

 to favoured locahties, a winter resident. 



Common Bunting. — Common in summer. I never met it in the 

 winter in this county, though Thompson calls it " permanently 

 resident " in Ireland. " Common " is an untruthful name for it, for 

 the yellow bunting is in all places more common. It is the " meadow 

 bunting," certainly, of Dalkey, for it always builds beneath a high 

 weed in a meadow of standing grass. It occurs here (Dalkey) from 

 the middle of April till the end of October. 



Yellow Bunting. — Resident. Great flocks visit this county in hard 

 weather in winter. 



Cirl Bunting. — Has occurred in some instances; and perhaps not 

 so rare as believed. One shot by myself in 1861. 



Blackheaded Bunting. — Common in Ireland, and resident. I know 

 little of it in this county, except seeing it occasionally. In Mayit is 

 the sparrow of the road-side, and may be seen in numbers at every 

 change of posters along the roads in winter. 



Chaffinch. — Resident. Both male and female. In November and 

 December 1 have seen vast flocks of females on old potato-grounds. 



