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hidden underneath a projecting ledge; and all the while the 

 parent birds circled round above us uttering their wild and 

 almost deafening cries, which could still be heard for long 

 after we had taken our departure. Along the shores of 

 Sheephaven and Mulroy Bay, Curlews, Herons, Redshanks, 

 Lapwings, Ringed Plovers, and Dunlins were observed in their 

 feeding grounds, while among the Ducks observed on Sheep- 

 haven the Sheld-duck and Shoveler were noted. The only 

 bird of prey observed was the Kestrel, which has its breeding- 

 place in the Muslac Cliffs. 



Bones of the following mammals have been found in the 

 kitchen-middens : Red Deer (very abundant, some fine antlers 

 being found by the party). Ox, Sheep, Goat, Boar, Dog, 

 Marten, Hare, Rabbit, Horse, Rat, Mouse, Seal, and Badger. 

 A tympanum of a Whale was also picked up. Many of these 

 bones had been split by human agency to extract the marrow. 



Bones of the extinct Great Auk have also been found 

 recently on the kitchen-middens, and the party found many 

 valves of the shell Venus verrvcosa, now seemingly extinct in 

 the North of Ireland, though still plentiful in Bantry Bay. 



The great sand-dunes of Tramore are largely composed of 

 very fine broken-up shells, broken sea urchins and their spines 

 which have come in from Sheephaven. With these there are 

 myriads of minute sea-shells unbroken, and many Foramini- 

 fera, especially of the genus MilioUna, which form conspicuous 

 patches on the many strands of the little peninsula. Mixed 

 with this mass are many species of very small land-shells; 

 in some cases the latter form well-marked bands in the dunes, 

 showing that they are evidently the sections of old hollows, in 

 which the shells were collected by wind action, &c., but now cut 

 through by the erosion of old dunes, which are moving to 

 build others more inland. Here the sieves were used with 

 advantage, quantities of beautiful little Vertigos, among 

 others, being obtained. The rare Planorhis glaher was found 

 in Rosapenna Lough, and some small mountain tarns yielded 

 a few of the troublesome genus Pisidia for future identifi- 

 cation. The rock-pools furnished the sea-hare (^Aplysia), which 



