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over a wide area of the Atlantic, in September, October, and 

 November. There is no doubt that the majority of them are 

 young and inexperienced birds, but that a fair number are 

 mature ones, probably carried out to sea by strong gales. It 

 seems strange that the Wheatear should be met with in much 

 the same part of the Atlantic for the last three years, unless it 

 is able to fly direct from Greenland to the north coast of Ireland, 

 a distance of over eleven hundred miles. 



The American Barn-Swallow may have wandered across and 

 escaped notice, as one lived on board the s.s. 'Tunisian' to 

 within five hundred and fifty miles of the Irish coast. Those 

 who have Swallow skins in their possession should examine them 

 for this species. Further investigation will probably show that 

 many other species occur, and that most of our American visitors 

 to this country have been assisted chiefly by steamers from the 

 St. Lawrence by way of Cape Race and Belle Isle. 



