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referred to the "Great Eared Owl," and he was an excellent 

 ornithologist. 



*White or Barn Owl, Strix flammed, Linn.; *Long-eared 

 Owl, Otus vulgaris, Flem. — Both these species are resident, and 

 breed at Glenalla and elsewhere. 



Short-eared Owl, Otus brachyotus, Forster. — Mr. Arthur 

 Brooke informs me that he has twice shot this Owl on snipe- 

 ground in the marsh at St. John's Point, near Killybegs, where it 

 appears annually, and is known as the " Woodcock Owl," from 

 the time of its arrival. One was shot near Carrablagh by a 

 local fowler two years ago (1889), and he informed me that they 

 arrive there annually at the end of October. 



*Spotted Flycatcher, Muscicapa grisola, Linn. — Apparently 

 not a common visitor, but I have seen pairs at Fahan (1881), and 

 at Glenalla several times. " A pair bred for two or three years 

 in succession in the trellis against the White House (Killybegs) 

 about twenty years ago. Since then I never saw one here till 

 this year (1889), when a pair brought out their young in the same 

 trellis, about five yards from the same spot. Another pair bred 

 in the garden at Bonny Glen, Inver" (A. B.). 



Great Grey Shrtke, Lanius excubitor; Linn. — Mr. Brooke 

 writes : — " Archdeacon Cox tells me that about twelve years ago 

 a man named Bold, an ex-gauger, who lived near Dunglow, gave 

 him a specimen of the Butcher-bird, or Great Grey Shrike, 

 obtained in that locality, and that he had sent it to the Natural 

 History Society, Dublin." 



Golden Oriole, Oriolus galbula, Linn. — In 1881 Archdeacon 

 Cox obtained one near Glenties, a female bird. Another was 

 obtained some twenty-five years ago at Salt Hill, near Mount 

 Charles, and was preserved by the Bussell family, then living 

 there. 



*Dd?per, Cinclus aquaticus, Bechstein. — Not unfrequent, and 

 breeding by mountain streams throughout Donegal. Mr. Brooke 

 regards it as "Common all through south-west Donegal, and one 

 of the earliest breeders we have. He has obtained the eggs at 

 the end of March." 



*Mistle Thrush, Turdus viscivorus, Linn. — Common at all 

 seasons, and occurring throughout the winter more freely than 

 than the other resident Thrushes. In the neighbourhood of 

 Killybegs, owing no doubt to the scarcity of trees, Mr. Brooke has 



