Tue ZooLtocist—OcroBeEr, 1872. $271 
Fermanagh.—One on an island in Lough Erne, the property of 
the Marquis of Ely. The nests are placed on old ivy-covered ash 
trees. Within the last ten years this colony has increased from 
two pairs to six or seven pairs. Another on an island in a small 
lake at Castle Coole (Earl of Belmore), but only two or three 
pairs. In the trees on the opposite side of this lake about thirty 
cormorants have their nests. 
Galway.— One at Lough Athry, and another at Newport 
House. 
Kerry.—One at Templemore (Sir J. Carden). Several nests were 
observed on the face of a cliff at Dingle by Mr. E. W. H. Holds- 
worth. At Crotta House, near Tralee, on very old birch trees 
covered almost to the tops with ivy, there were about twenty birds 
in 1871 (Mr. J. Beale Brown), At Tanavalla, uear Listowel, 
there are about the same number of birds nesting in fir trees 
(Mr. Elliott). 
Kilkenny.—-A colony at Kilfane (Sir John Power). 
King’s County.— Ballynaminton Clara (Rev. P. Marsh). Parsons- 
town, the seat of Lord Ross, in the branches of old trees over- 
hanging a recently-formed pond. 
Limerick.—At Mount Coote, Kilmallock (Mr. C.J. Coote), there 
are between twenty and thirty nests in elm, lime and Spanish 
chesnut trees. 
Longford.—One at Edgeworth’s Town, on beech trees. 
Louth.—One at Beaulieu, near Drogheda. 
Mayo.—One at Westport House, and another at Castle Mac- 
garrett, where Lord Oranmore informs me as many as fifty herons 
often build. 
Meath.—On a small island in a lake at Drewstown, near Ath- 
boy (Mr. M‘Veigh). 
Roscommon.—French Park (Lord de Freyne). 
Sligo.— Banada, on the River Moy. 
Waterford.—Dromana and Salter’s Bridge, near Clonmel; and 
Kilcommon demesne. 
Westmeath.—In a grove on the property of Mr. Gibbon. 
Wexford.—At Bargy Castle, Ballycoyly (Major Harvey), a 
heronry has been established for at least a century. In April, 1872, 
there were fifty-six old birds and twenty-eight nests. 
Wicklow.— At Ballyward there is a heronry belonging to 
Mr. Fennimore, 
