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two Nutcrackers flap quietly into a tree, looking somewhat like 

 small Jackdaws, with a white bar across the extremities of the 

 tail-feathers underneath. 



I think therefore that a list of such continental birds as are 

 likely to be met with by tourists would be very welcome, if 

 accompanied by a short recognisable description, and I would 

 suggest that such a list should be drawn up by the Editor of this 

 Journal and by Mr. W. Warde Fowler, author of that charming 

 book, * A Year with the Birds.' If such a manual or pamphlet 

 were sold at the bookstalls, say for half a franc or half a mark, 

 it should command a large circulation, and give much pleasure 

 and instruction to the increasing thousands who are to be found 

 year after year in continental resting-places. 



[In 'The Zoologist' for 1890, p. 231, will be found a notice of 

 Mr. Backhouse's ' Handbook of European Birds for the use of Field 

 Naturalists and Collectors,' a small octavo volume of about 300 pages, 

 published by Messrs. Gurney and Jackson. — Ed.] 



NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF DONEGAL. 



By Henry Chichester Hart, B.A., F.L.S. 



(Continued from p. 338.) 



*Golden Plover, Charadrius pluvialis, Linn. — Kesident, 

 breeding in the mountains in several places, as about Ardara and 

 Killybegs. A pair bred at Long Lough, near Rathmullan, 1879. 

 Much commoner in winter. About Killybegs Mr. Brooke finds 

 them far less common than they were twenty years ago, though 

 still abundant, winter and summer. 



Grey Plover, Squatarola helvetica, Linn. — A winter visitant 

 in small numbers to the shores of Lough Swilly. In November 

 I have seen small flocks two or three times. At Rosskirk, in 

 Fanet, a couple of miles inland, Patrick Campbell, a local fowler, 

 shoots a few most years : he calls them " Silver Plover." 



*Lapwing, Vanellus vulgaris, Bechstein. — Resident, and in 

 many localities common ; for example, along the north coast of 

 Fanet, where many remain to breed. 



Dotterel, Eudromias morinellus, Linn. — A very rare 

 visitant. One obtained in Donegal is preserved in the National 

 Museum. 



