20 12 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Certhia familiaris, Linn. Tree-Ceeeper. — Eesident and not uncommon about 

 Westport, at Glendarary, and wherever there are plantations in Donegal, 

 Mayo, and Connemara: but Barrington has no evidence that it has 

 occurred at any Irish light-station. At Kylemore a Creeper nested in 

 a fold of a seal's skin hung up. 1 



Motacilla mgubris. Temm. Pied- Wagtail. — Observed about harbour, roads, 

 and holdings on Glare Island at all seasons, but specially noticed 

 near the light-house as a migrant in October and Xovember (Hammond). 

 Generally distributed on the mainland, Aehill, and Inishbonn. About 

 Belmullet Richards observed it to appeal - in December, and Wallace 

 reported docks which arrived there in September and October. The 

 autumn immigration of this species, treated of by Barrington, lasts thus 

 in October, and is extended to the isles of Gonnaught. 



Motacilla alba. Linn. White Wagtail. — An immature bird, in company 

 with others, was shot by Good near Westport in August, 1891, and 

 examined by Dresser and Howard Saunders. The latter, too, identified 

 an adult on the roadside near Glenamoy bridge with a bit of cotton-rush 

 in its bill, 9th June, 1898 ; therefore, the nest should be looked for in 

 Mayo. Sheridan shot a male on Aehill in May, 1895, and its skin was 

 preserved by Barrington. Wallace reported five seen at Cross Strand 

 on the Mullet, which arrived from the sea, at a considerable height. 

 There is a migration up the west coast of Ireland at the end of April 

 • and in May. Barrington has received specimens at that season from 

 the Aran Islands, Galway : from Aranmore and InishtrahuIL Donegal : 

 while for many years Warren and Kirkwood have observed or recorded 

 small flocks which visit the island of Bartragh on Killala Bay on their 

 spring passage. In 1911, for the first time," their return in the last 

 week in August was noticed there.* Hart observed five on Trawbreaga 

 Bay in the far north of Donegal on 26th July, 1891, and W. C. Wright 

 saw some in the same locality in 1903, and on a strand near Bossbeg 

 N'aran district; in 1904, both early in August. 5 The White Wagtail 

 doubtless passes Clare Island. 



Motacilla melanope. Pallas. Gket Wagtail. — On Clare Island a few may 



be found along the streams and the harbour at all seasons. They 



evidently breed, and have been obtained in winter. Poster saw the bird 



Belclare in summer, and Good saw it at Westport through the winter. 



Ac-hill specimens are preserved in the Slievemore HoteL A few inhabit 



1 Humphry = : bis i S«t . voL xxi, p. 46. - Z:-ologist, 1911, p. 385. 



* Zoologist, 1901, p. 376. 



