460 , . THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Dec, 28th, 1890, hearing that there were Wild Swans in Fanet, 

 I visited several lakes. On Kinnylough there were twenty ; they 

 kept up a continual yelping noise ; five rose and flew. At Rinboy 

 Lake there was a much larger flock ; I counted sixty on the water. 

 This lake is about half-a-mile broad and three-quarters in length. 

 The Swans kept in the middle, and were a beautiful spectacle, 

 a brilliant sun shining on them. They kept up a continual yelping 

 and sort of guttural whining. The notes of the darker cygnets, 

 of which there were five or six, were distinct. I saw eighty-four 

 Swans this day, and by all accounts there were never so many in 

 Fanet any winter before : twenty to forty is the ordinary number. 

 They remain till the end of February. 



? Greylag Goose, Anser ferns, Gmelin. — Rarely occurs. In 

 the winter of 1880-81 grey geese were'numerous. At Greenfort 

 Island, Carrablagh, a flock of about fifteen remained several days, 

 when five were shot. This was an unexampled occurrence. Others 

 were obtained at Kindrum, and eight went up Lough Swilly as 

 far as Ramelton. The description I received agreed with the 

 Greylag Goose, but the White-fronted Goose may have been 

 mistaken for it. 



Bean Goose, A. segetum, Gmelin. — A regular winter visitor to 

 the inland Donegal bogs in many places. This is the ordinary 

 " wild goose " seen inland in winter, as the Brent Goose (miscalled 

 the Bernicle) is the commonest tidal species. 



White-fronted Goose, A, albifrons, Gmelin. — Probably 

 occurs every winter. A number visited south-western Donegal 

 in the winter of 1879-80, and several were shot on the mountains 

 inland (A. B.). One was shot on Rathlin O'Byrne Island, May 3rd, 

 1887 (Report on Migr. of Birds, 1889). 



Bernicle Goose, A. leucopsis, Bechst. — Said to visit Mulroy 

 annually, where it is called " Bernacle " as well as the following 

 much commoner species. Sir R. Payne Gallwey states that it 

 regularly visits Aranmore Island in considerable numbers. 



Brent Goose, A. bernicla, Bechst. — Abundant winter visitor 

 in Loughs Foyle and Swilly. I have seen them arrive on Sept. 

 12th and 14th, at the mud-flats on Inch Island, Lough Swilly— a 

 favourite haunt. Generally leave in March. " Said to be frequent 

 on Innisduft" Island, near Killybegs, in winter" (A. B.). 



Sheldrake, Tacloma vulpanser, Fleming. — Breeds, or did 

 breed, a few years ago, at Aids. In 1881 a pair bred at Inch Island, 



