The Zoologist — January, 1809. 1499 



Landrail. — One flushed in the woods by a shooting party on the 

 1st of October. 



Common Tern. — Very abundant this year, and continued numerous 

 until tlie end of September. Small parties of about a dozen seen 

 early in October, and for the last time on the lOlh. Immature birds 

 predominated largely — I should think quite fifty to one. 



Lesser Tern. — We had an immature specimen brought to us alive 

 on the 11 ih of September: it was discovered inside the sea-wall, and 

 was caught without difficulty. Very uncommon here. 



Black Tern. — Never numerous. A iev; appeared about (he creeks 

 during September: shot one, a bird of the year. 



Blackheaded Gull. — September 29. My brother killed two splendid 

 adult birds, both having, in addition to the roseate breast, a most 

 beautiful rosy pink hue on the four outer quills of each wing; most 

 marked on the shafts. Specimens with roseate breasts we have not 

 unfrequently met with here in winter, but until now had not come 

 across any with such a colour on the wings : the general effect was 

 extremely beautiful. 



Skua. — Two were shot in this district during September, one in 

 the immediate neighbourhood at the beginning of the month, and the 

 other in Stangate Creek on the 28th. This last was a very nice 

 specimen of the pomarine skua, and, according to Yarrell, in the 

 plumage of the second year: it was chasing terns when first seen, 

 and proved tame, allowing a near approach in a boat as it sat 

 on the water. The other bird appears to have been also of this 

 species. 



F. D. Power. 



Lady well, Lewisham, November, 1H68. 



Ornitholoyical Notes from the County Dublin for 1867: Extracts 

 from the Log of the " Gray Gull.'" By Harry Blake-Knox, 

 Esq., J.P. 



(Continued from Zoul. S. S. HIO). 



Redthroated Diver. — Red-throated in January. — January 21. A 

 redthroated diver watched to-day, by aid of a glass, was in full red- 

 throat and lead-coloured neck. Never having examined one of these 

 early-assumed summer-plumaged birds (?) 1 cannot state if they are 

 first-year adults or very old birds that, after a certain age, unhealthily 



