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6th and 8th I was for the first time able to identify some Chaffinches 

 feeding in the corner of my potato-field. On the 9th I walked to 

 Enniscrone (three miles), and at some houses along the roadside 

 I recognized a few Chaffinches, Yellowhammers, and a couple 

 of Common Buntings, but no Greenfinches. The first of the 

 large migratory flocks to this district appears to have been 

 observed on the 3rd by Mr. Scroope at Eahins, two miles outside 

 the town — at least one hundred and fifty Chaffinches resting on 

 trees by the roadside, but very wild — and next day he saw a 

 flock of eighty to one hundred birds on the trees at Downhill, 

 near Bunree, and a few Yellowhammers among them. On the 

 11th he met another large flock on the trees near Newtowngore 

 Fair Green, and at the same place about forty Greenfinches, but 

 all so wild that it was with difficulty he got close enough for 

 identification. 



This great wildness shows evidently that the birds were 

 strangers, and not reared in this neighbourhood. Up to the 

 present date none of the regular haunts about this place — the 

 stackyard, garden, kitchen- and stable-yards — have been occu- 

 pied by either of the three species, nor will be, I suppose, until 

 later on, when these large flocks of strangers disperse and 

 scatter over the country. I should add that the above remarks 

 apply only to the three species first mentioned. 



Moy View. 



