WARREN ON SKUAS. 3 



The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Members of the So- 

 ciety : — Thomas Grace Geoghegan, M. D. ; Thomas Alexander Montgo- 

 mery, Esq. ; Alexander John Montgomery, Esq. ; Arthur Wynne Eoot, 

 M.B., L. E. C. S. I. ; and William White Walpole, Esq. 



The meeting then adjourned till December. 



DECEMBER 5, 1863. 

 William Andrews, M. E. I. A., President, in the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the preceding meeting were read and signed. 



The following donations were announced : — . 



Two specimens of the Eulmar, one of Bridled Guillemot, of the Po- 

 marine Skua, and of Buffon's Skua, from Eobert Warren, Jun., Esq., 

 Moyview, Ballina. 



Black-cap Warbler, from E. J. Montgomery, Esq. 



Snowy Owl, from the Eoyal Zoological Society of Ireland, per E. J. 

 Montgomery, Esq. This specimen was captured at Swords, county of 

 Dublin, and lived for seven months at the Zoological Gardens. 



Stormy Petrel {Procellaria pelagica), from E. P. Williams, Esq. 

 This bird was caught alive at Clontarf, but is rare on the eastern coast. 



A black variety of the common brown Eat, from Sandford Palmer, 

 Esq. 



Long-tailed Duck (Harelda glacialis), from Mr. Eobert Ness, of 

 Booterstown. This bird was shot near Booterstown, and was in imma- 

 ture plumage. 



The following paper was then read : — 



On the Winter Migration or the Pomarine Skua (Lestris poma- 



RINUS), AND ON THE OCCURRENCE OF THE BlilDLED GUILLEMOT (UrIA 

 LACRYMANS), AND OF THE EuLMAR (PROCELLARIA . GLACTALIS). By 



Mr. E. Warren, Jun. 



In last March I had the pleasure of laying before your meeting an ac- 

 count of the migration of Eichardson's Skua, in the county of Mayo, as 

 frequently witnessed by myself and others ; and now I have to record 

 the interesting occurrence of a migratory flight of a species new to my 

 list, and hitherto rare in Ireland, the Pomarine Skua. 



On the morning of the 22nd October (the weather having been very 

 boisterous for some days previously, the wind blowing in heavy squalls, 

 accompanied with driving showers from the south and south-west), I 

 was standing at the parlour window at Moyview, looking down the 

 river towards Bartra Island, and just thinking that Skuas ought to make 

 their appearance, it being the time of year and the kind of weather 

 when we expect to see them, when suddenly a flock of ten or twelve 

 appeared in sight, flying slowly up the river from the direction of the 

 sea. I immediately took my gun and hurried to the shore, but much to 

 my annoyance only reached it in time to sec them pass just out of shot. 



