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base of the cliffs as far as Porturlin, in order to have a closer view 

 from the sea of the face of the cliffs, especially those haunted by the 

 Eagles, but saw no trace of them ; then, when questioning the boat- 

 men, who were constantly in their curraghs fishing all along that 

 part of the coast, they all agreed that it was some years since any 

 Eagles were observed in their old haunts, good evidence of their final 

 disappearance. Thus has ended the race of Irish White-tailed Eagles. 

 I may further add that there are only two breeding haunts in Ireland 

 of the Golden Eagle, but how much longer the birds will escape their 

 destroyers is harcj to say, though one nesting-site is carefully pre- 

 served by the owner of the estate. — Egbert Warren (Ardnaree, 

 Monkstown, Co. Cork). 



P.S. — I mentioned in the foregoing notes that there were only 

 two breeding haunts of Eagles now in Ireland. I regret that I 

 was mistaken, for I now hear from my friend, E. J. Ussher, that 

 on his last visit a few weeks ago to Muilrea he found that the 

 Eagles were extinct, where in 1898, in company with the late 

 Howard Saunders, of London, they had the pleasure of seeing a pair 

 of Golden Eagles soaring round that great mountain, on which their 

 nest was situated. Mr. Ussher, with James Bourke, who lived at the 

 foot of the mountain, ascended within sight of the Eagle's cliff, but 

 on inquiry found that the last Eagle was destroyed in the spring 

 of 1910, the manager of the property saying that, as the Eagles 

 killed lambs, they should be destroyed, and the result of his orders 

 being that they are now exterminated, all being poisoned. So now 

 there is only one remaining breeding haunt of Eagles in Ireland, 

 and although that is strictly preserved by the owner of the estate, 

 yet I fear their destruction in a few years will follow. — E. W. 



Variety of the Gannet. — Eeferring to the supposed brown variety 

 of a Gannet, which was seen by at least four persons at the Bass 

 Eock in July, 1910, of which a figure kindly communicated by Mr. E. 

 Fortune appeared in 'The Zoologist' {ante, p. 73), I now learn that 

 no more has been seen of this anomalous bird. A close watch has 

 been kept for it at the Bass Eock all this summer by Mr. J. M. Camp- 

 bell, principal of the hghthouse, who is himself an ornithologist, but 

 to no purpose. That the bird was an artificially coloured one there 

 can be little, if any, doubt, as was long ago surmised by Mr. William 

 Evans, of Edinburgh, and others. The nest on which it was photo- 

 graphed was this year occupied by two normally coloured Gannets, 

 one of which may have been the individual in question returned to 

 its proper ledge. Among the many curious varieties of birds which 



