370 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



The following observations were made by Mr. Green and 

 Mr. Poole during the subsequent part of their cruise : — 



A pair of young Golden Eagles were offered to Mr. Green for 

 sale. The cliff in which they were reared, in the face of a lofty 

 mountain, was shown to him. I know of no other breeding-place 

 of this splendid bird now left in Ireland, and the young are 

 annually thus taken there. In a low cliff, about forty feet high, 

 on Claggan Island, Blacksod Bay, a pair of Peregrines were 

 evidently breeding, which on two occasions when the vessel was 

 passing flew out with vociferous cries. In the estuary leading 

 from Belmullet into Broadhaven they passed through large flocks 

 of Shags; they also saw many Black Guillemots about Broad- 

 haven. On the Stags of Broadhaven — very lofty isolated rocks — 

 they saw no Gannets, but plenty of Kittiwakes, and, on the top, 

 Great Black-backed Gulls. We may conclude that the only 

 breeding resorts of the Gannet on the Irish coast are the Little 

 Skellig and the Bull Bock. About midway between Broadhaven 

 and Donegal Bay, on June 16th, they passed a Fulmar, and 

 returning to Blacksod Bay, between that date and the 10th July, 

 they steamed off to two hundred and twenty fathoms, and made 

 two most successful hauls of the deep-sea trawl. A huge Whale 

 played alongside, and numbers of Fulmars came so close to them 

 that they could have hit them with stones. Most of them had 

 the speckled appearance of young birds, and a jagged gap in the 

 feathers of the wing, which looked as if they were moulting. 

 Subsequently, whenever they went from ten to twenty miles west 

 of the coasts of Connaught, they met with Fulmars. On one 

 occasion they caught one, which appeared disabled, in a hand-net, 

 but owing to an accident it escaped. On July 17th, at Inishbofin, 

 they saw a flock of sixty-four Choughs, which were flying in a 

 regular flock like Rooks, apparently from the mainland. In 

 Inver Bay, Co. Donegal, they saw many Storm Petrels flying 

 about in the daytime. On the 2Gth August they saw at least 

 four Great Shearwaters off Bantry Bay ; and about Sept. 2nd, in 

 Courtmacsherry Bay, Co. Cork, two Skuas were creating a great 

 disturbance among the other Gulls. 



Mr. Poole states his impression that the south-west coast is 

 much richer in sea-birds than the west and north-west ; but adds 

 that of course the birds follow the surface-fish, and that their 

 distribution varies at different seasons. 



