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running along the edge of the water, quickly snapping up the 

 insects it was feeding on. After a few moments watching it, I 

 thought it better not to delay and perhaps lose my chance of 

 obtaining it, so I fired, knocking it over dead, and on picking it 

 up recognized it as the Green Sandpiper, so rare in this locality 

 that I have known of only one other specimen, obtained by a 

 friend and, by a strange coincidence, shot in the very same 

 pond at Moy View. In its flight and appearance when slowly 

 flying along the shores it gives one the idea of a small Green- 

 shank ; the colour and shape of the wings are very similar. 



February 19th. — This morning, as I was riding along the 

 sands at Enniscrone, on the look-out for any rare birds that 

 might turn up, I observed an Iceland Gull by the river, among 

 a lot of Herring-Gulls. It was much darker in colour than the 

 bird shot on January 6th, and though wilder than this species 

 usually is, was evidently in its first year's plumage. We had 

 some snow on the 16th and 17th, but it is all off to-day. The 

 barometer for some days past has stood at 30°, weather looking 

 as if going to hold fine for a few days. 



March 22nd. — Barometer still high ; weather fine. 



April 11th. — The Sandwich-Terns have arrived, and were 

 seen and heard, very noisy, as they usually are on their arrival. 

 They are rather late this season. One year I observed them as 

 early as March 25th, and another year on the 28th, when snow 

 was lying on the ground and the thermometer indicating six 

 degrees of frost, and they were as lively and noisy as if it was 

 the middle of May. 



16th.— Swallows seen flying about the river near Belleck 

 Manor to-day. 



20th.— Willow- Wrens heard at Moy View. 



21st. — Cuckoo and Land-Rails heard at Moy View, the 

 latter being numerous this season. 



29th. — A pair of Spotted Flycatchers on trees of garden and 

 farmyard. 



June 2nd. — Saw a large flock of Bar-tailed Godwits on the 

 sands just off the shore here ; two of the Godwits were dark on 

 the back and had very red breasts and very dark legs, but 

 whether they were black-tailed or bar-tailed, assuming their 

 summer plumage, I cannot say. However, all the others (at 



