172 the Zoologist. 



On Nov. 14th two large flocks of Sanderlings were observed 

 at Fethard by Mr. K. Fry, of the Coast-guard Station, who shot 

 several of them. Late in that month, and throughout December, 

 flocks of wild geese were observed in different localities passing 

 overhead ; they were probably nearly all White-fronted Geese, to 

 which species belonged the only specimen which I was able to 

 examine, which was shot near Wexford at the end of December. 

 The greater number of these birds seem not to have stopped in 

 the county, but to have merely passed over westwards. A friend 

 met with twenty geese near Templemore, in Tipperary, which 

 were probably Bean Geese, the description which he gave me of 

 one which he killed (with snipe-shot !) agreeing well with this 

 species. I have heard of no wild swans this winter, except those 

 noted in ' The Field' for Feb. 1st, 1891, as having occurred at 

 the mouth of the River Suir. 



On Nov. 28th, Mr. D. Hawkins reported Snow Buntings about 

 the Hook Tower all day, and on Dec. 7th, twenty more. On 

 Jan. 26th, Mr. E. A. Gibbon sent me two, shot from a party of six 

 or seven seen on the strand at Rosslare. I have no other record 

 of the occurrence of this bird in the Co. Wexford since Thompson's 

 note of them in the winter of 1846-47, with the exception of one 

 instance in 1889. In January, Wheelock, of Wexford, wrote to 

 say that he had a Bittern, shot near that place on the 12th, which 

 I afterwards saw in his shop. On the 15th, Mr. Moffat saw a 

 flock of ten Crossbills on a larch tree on Ballyhyland Hill. He 

 left for Dublin on the 17th, so unfortunately had not much time 

 to watch them. He also saw a flock of Crossbills on October 6th, 

 1889, feeding on the larch-cones in the same locality. There 

 has been no means of ascertaining whether they have nested with 

 us or not, as neither that gentleman or myself were in the county 

 during the breeding season of 1890. 



In conclusion, I have to acknowledge my great indebtedness 

 to all those correspondents who have kindly sent me notes from 

 their various localities during the past year. 



