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Parus caeruleus, L., Blue Titmouse. — Breeds commonly in every 

 county in Ireland; the most widely distributed of the Titmice. 



Parus ater, L., Coal Titmouse. — Recorded as breeding in every 

 county except two, where our informants have probably omitted it 

 through unacquaintanee with its name ; more confined to the 

 timbered parts of the country than the two former. 



Acredulacaudata (L.), Long-tailed Titmouse. — Recorded as breed- 

 ing in every Irish county ; usually met with in the wooded districts. 



Motacilla lugubris, Temminck, Pied "Wagtail. — Breeds commonly 

 all over Ireland. 



Motacilla melanope, Pallas, Grey "Wagtail. — Breeds all over 

 Ireland, and, though nowhere numerous, is in some districts more 

 frequently to be met with than the Pied "Wagtail. 



Motacilla rail (Bonaparte), Yellow "Wagtail. — Breeds in the 

 basin of Lough jSTeagh, both in Antrim and Armagh, in the latter in 

 considerable numbers, though locally ; has once been recorded as breed- 

 ing in Dublin, once in Galway as observed by Lord Lilford, and found 

 evidently breeding by Mr. "Warren, near Loughs Mask and Carra in 

 Mayo ; almost unknown in the rest of Ireland. 



Anthus pratensis (L.), Meadow Pipit. — Breeds numerously all 

 over Ireland. 



Anthus obscurus (Latham), Rock Pipit. — Breeds all round the 

 coasts of Ireland, and on the remotest islands. 



Alauda arvensis, L., Skylark. — Breeds commonly in every county. 



Alauda arborea, L., "Woodlark. — Mr. Barrington has recently 

 (April, 1894) seen its nest, egg, and young in Co. "Wicklow ; Mr. 

 "William Corbet, who obtained two near Rathcormac, in January, 

 1887, now in the Museum, states that Woodlarks used to breed at Castle 

 Hyde, and near Doneraile in the Co. Cork. Old birdcatchers from 

 Cappoquin knew it formerly in the Blackwater Valley, both in 

 summer and winter. It seems to be extinct in former haunts in 

 Antrim, Down, Armagh, Dublin, Tipperary, and "Waterford, and to be 

 unknown throughout the greater part of Ireland. 



Emberiza schceniclus, L., Reed Bunting. — Breeds all over Ire- 

 land, commonly in the wilder parts and on the lakes. 



Emberiza miliaria, L., Corn Bunting. — Breeds commonly in 

 certain districts, especially in the open country near the coasts, but is 

 local, and apparently absent from other parts of Ireland. "We have 

 no information of it yet from Armagh, Monaghan, Longford, King's 

 County, nor Leitrim, but in several of these counties it may have been 

 overlooked by our informants. 



