448 APPENDIX. 



" and occasionally at other seasons," as the account of the bird which 

 follows would show. In 1850, one of two birds which were together 

 was shot near Bally waiter (Down) on the 23nd of February ; — two ap- 

 peared on the stony embankment of the railway at Conswater, Belfast 

 Bay, on the 8 th of March ; — and two were shot, from a flock of seven 

 or eight, on the 9th of May, at Eoberts's Cove (county Cork). 



Oeder NATATOEES. 



Great Wild Swan, vol. iii. p. 3. 



May 1850. One of these swans, preserved at Lissanoure Castle 

 (county Antrim), was shot on the lake there " ten or twelve years ago." 



Bewick's Swan, vol. iii. p. 13. 



The Eev. T. Knox has favoured me with a description of a swan of 

 this species killed at Scariff, on the Shannon, on February 2, 1842. A 

 young swan — C. BewicJcii it is presumed (see p. 21) — was shot on a 

 pond near Dingle (county Kerry), in the winter of 1849-50. In the 

 following season, about the end of November 1850, two of this species 

 were brought to Dublin market. 



So early as the end of October 1850, three wild swans (it is not 

 known of what species) were observed for some time within eighty 

 yards of the shore of Belfast Bay, at Eaven Hill. 



Wild Geese, of different species. 



Notes by E. J. Montgomery, Esq., on wild-goose shooting in Mayo, 

 in the present year — from the beginning of February until the end of 

 March 1850 — seem to me well worthy of a place here. He remarks — 

 " I sbot a great number, though with much difficulty, having either to 

 stalk them regularly, if in the day-time, or to lie in a blind for one or 

 two hours before they came to feed at night. Wild-goose shooting is 

 the finest sport I ever enjoyed, and I would go any distance for it. 

 Think of seeing a flock of three or four hundred coming down on one 

 of the lakes where you are advantageously posted both for observing 

 them and shooting." The grey lag goose formerly was very common in 

 Mayo, but is now very scarce. I only saw three while there ; one of 

 them I wounded, but failed in getting. I watched them through a 



