20 38 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Totanus calidris ( T .inn.). Redshank. — Met with on Clare Island in March 

 (Barrington, : in small parties along the shore in July: increased in 

 September; and in numbers in the fields in December (Patten). On 

 Ac-hill it breeds, and is plentiful in winter (E. B. Sheridan) : and this may 

 he said of the Mullet, where flocks arrive in late August and in September 

 ("Wallace). Foster found it breeding on marshy ground beside Clew 

 Bay, as it does on estuarine marshes on the north coast of Ulster: 

 otherwise it seldom nests on the seaboard, though commonly on inland 

 lakes and marshes, whence it betakes itself to the sea-shores, when the 

 young can travel there. 



Totanus canescens (J. F. Gmel.). Gkeexshaxk. — "On the sea-shore in the 

 neighbourhood of Clew Bay Greenshanks are rather numerous " ("Fowler 

 in Ireland," p. 240). They are autumn and winter visitors to A chill, 

 where A. "Williams has heard the note as early as 26th July, and a few 

 arrive on the Mullet in August. The Moy estuary is then- favourite 

 haunt, where Warren has seen fourteen as early as 19th June. He has 

 shot both adults and young before the end of that month, and he dwells 

 on the short time they are absent to breed. Greenshanks are not at all 

 as numerous nor as frequent as the Bedshanks with which they often 

 associate. They are observed on the coasts of Kerry, Cork, &c, but not 

 so commonly as on the northern shores. 



Limosa lapponica Linn. . Bak-tailed God wit. — Autumn and winter visitor 

 to Achill and the Mullet, but not so numerous there as on Killala Bay, 

 where Warren has seen flocks exceeding a hundred [five hundred in rare 

 instances), and has found some, that did not breed, remain all the 

 summer. On Ulster coasts, though common in autumn and spring, they 

 usually leave in winter. 1 



Limosa belgica (J. F. Gmel... Bl.vce-tatt.ed Godwit. — I n Dublin Museum 

 is a bird iu summer plumage received in August, 1863, from Blacksod 

 Bay. Warren obtained several on the Moy and Killala Bay, but they 

 are rare on the west coast. 



Numenius arquata (Linn.). Cuklew. — Common all the year round on the 

 coasts and islands above-mentioned, but not plentiful during the 

 breeding-season, when the birds found there are probably adolescent; but 

 as early as ISth July there was a flock of fifty Curlews on Clare Island. 

 The light-keepers chiefly report them from August onwards,- and October 



- Leebodv in " Irisi . 1892, pp. 17b, 177. ■ " Migration of Birds," pp. 219, 2M. 



