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typical form, but Mr. Barrington informs me that he has seen 

 examples from Iceland, in the Copenhagen Museum, which 

 appeared to him to be larger than the Shetland race. 



The average size of the eggs of the Faroese Wren is greater 

 than those of the typical form. A clutch of five eggs of the 

 former in my collection weighs as much as a clutch of seven of 

 the latter. 



NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF DONEGAL. 

 By Henky Chichester Haet, B.A., F.L.S. 



The following notes form a summary of many years' observa- 

 tions, chiefly taken in the summer half of the year in the 

 Co. Donegal. For the last few years, however, I have resided 

 in the county during the greater part of the winter. I have 

 quoted from a paper, printed in the ' Magazine of Natural 

 History,' in the year 1832 (vol. v. p. 580), by Mr. J. V. Stewart, 

 of Ards, who made a considerable collection of birds in this 

 county. From Mr. A. G. More's 'List of Irish Birds* I have 

 also made extracts, and I have to thank the latter author for 

 some further notes which I should have otherwise overlooked. 

 From the 'Beport on the Migration of Birds (Ireland),* by 

 Mr. R. Barrington, I have obtained some information, while 

 Thompson's 'Birds of Ireland' has of course been referred to, 

 as well as Sir R. Payne Gallwey's 'Fowler in Ireland 1 for the 

 aquatic species. But the bulk of the observations are my own, 

 well supplemented by the notes and remarks of my friend Mr. 

 Arthur Brooke, of Killybegs. The species that breed in Donegal 

 are marked with an asterisk (*). 



*Golden Eagle, Aquila chrysaetus, Linn. — Breeds annually 

 on one mountain, on the west coast of Donegal, though other 

 former breeding-places in this county are now deserted. I saw 

 a Golden Eagle near the summit of Errigal in June, 1888. One 

 was shot by Lord Leitrim's keeper on Lough Salt Mountain in 

 the summer of 1890. I have a Golden Eagle's egg taken in the 

 Poisoned Glen, Dunlewy, about forty years ago. My friend 

 Mr. Arthur Brooke,! of Killybegs, obtained two young birds 



f I am indebted to this gentleman for a series of notes which he very kindly 

 put together at my request, and which are here distinguished by his initials. 

 ZOOLOGIST.— AUGUST, 1891. 2 A 



