THE ZOOLOGIST. 
THIRD SERIES. 
Vout. I.] JUNE, 1877. [No. 6. 
Pah STRDS -OrF THE MOY ESTUARY 
AND THE SURROUNDING DISTRICT. 
By Robert WaRREN. 
THE district to which the following notes relate comprises those 
parts of the Counties of Mayo and Sligo which are situated within 
a ten mile radius of Moyne Abbey, which is taken as the centre of 
the district. The list unfortunately is somewhat imperfect, as, from 
the difficulty of obtaining authentic and reliable information, I have 
been obliged to depend almost eutirely upon my own observa- 
tions; and in order to have the list correct, if not long, I have 
hesitated to insert the name of any bird that I have not identified 
myself, unless confident of the correctness of the information sup- 
plied to me concerning it. 
Order RAPTORES. 
Sea Eagle, Haliaétus albicilla.—This fine bird, some few years 
ago, was to be seen nearly every winter frequenting the sand-hills 
of Bartragh and Enniscrone, feeding on rabbits and on dead fish 
cast ashore by the surf. In December, 1851, a pair of Sea Eagles 
haunted the sand-hills of Bartragh for several days, one of which 
I shot as it was resting after a heavy meal of rabbit and hake: it 
was a fine bird in the second year’s plumage. The second bird 
remained about the sand-hills for some time after, but I think got 
off unharmed; nor would I have shot the bird mentioned but that 
I wanted to set it up as a specimen. I used frequently to see or 
hear of Eagles being about Bartragh up to 1856; but since then 
I have neither seen nor heard of a bird visiting this locality, and 
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