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Columba palumbus. T.inn. Bisg-Dove.— Xot- known on Clare Island, but 

 resident in Glendarary wood. Aehill. and fairly plentiful in wooded 

 districts on the mainlaud. Cm the treeless Mullet "Wallace says that 

 flocks are sometimes seen passing, which do not stay there. "Witherbv 

 found some wooded islands in the Connemara bog-lakes swarmed with 

 "Wood-Pigeons, and discovered a nest on the ground among tall heather. 

 Patten saw a few birds about Dingle, but none at the bare west end of the 

 peninsula. They spread with the increase of plantations. 



Columba livia. J. F. Ginel. Bock-Dove. — Xunibers breed and are resident on 

 the cliffs of Clare Island and Aehill : and the light-keepers on the former 

 have repeatedly recorded flocks of " Pigeons " in April. May, June, and 

 again from August to December; but as they fail to distinguish the species. 

 we are not sure that some of these flocks may not lie migrant Eing 

 Doves. Sheridan (Aehill) and Good (Westport ) think that Eock-Doves 

 are decreasing. They are resident on the precipitous parts of the west 

 coast, frequenting the islands that afford caverns, such as Aranmore. 

 High Island, Inishtooskert, and visit in flocks others where they do 

 not breed, as Black Eoek. Mayo, and the Tearaght, Kerry. 



Turtur communis. Selby. Turtlb-Dovk. — Obtained on Black Bock, Mayo. 27th, 

 June. 1887 (Barrington) ; another observed at Belniullet in June, 190-3 

 Wallace t : three more at Moyview in May, July, and August < Warren .. 

 The Turtle-Dove visits the coasts of Donegal and the Connaught counties 

 much less often than any other part of the Irish shores, Kerry more 

 frequently ; while on the south coast it is of almost annual occurrence. 



Syrrhaptes paradoxus (Pallas . Palla>"s San h- Grouse. — Has been obtained 

 in 1863 at two pants on the west Donegal coast: and in 1888 several 

 were seen and two shot near Belnndlet. otheis at Carrigaholt, Co. Clare, 

 near the Shannon's mouth, points north and south of our district. 



Lagopus scoticus Lath. . Bed Grouse. —In 1882 Brownell, then light-keeper 

 on Clare Island, reported " large numbers of Grouse from August to 

 January "' ; in June, 1884, he wrote : " Saw a number of young Grouse"; 

 and in August, 1S84, " large flocks seen on the mountainous parts of the 

 island." Xot long after that the Grouse and the Eagles which used to 

 prev on them were exterminated as breeding species, though M'Cabe 

 says one or two of the former are seen every year. They are resident 

 on AchiU and on the mountains of Mayo as they are on the higher ranges 

 of Ireland generaUy, but Good thinks they are getting scarce. One has 

 been taken on Black Bock. Mayo, nearlv dead from exhaustion. 



