78 REPORT ON THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. 



Eagle Island, East. — " Spring : did not observe any birds of 

 a migratory kind pass this island." — Eobert W. Redmond. 



Eagle Island, West. — ''Autumn: I have carefully watched 

 the movements of birds, and have not found anything worth 

 reporting. Sea-fowl occasionally after herring in large groups ; 

 but they come and go no particular way." — Matthew Healy. 



Clare Island. — "Autumn: Very few migratory birds at this 

 station in 1882, with the exception of Gulls, Guillemots, PufiQns, 

 and Eazorbills, of which large numbers arrived in the latter part 

 of March, and left on Aug. 18th. Cormorants and Kittiwakes all 

 the year round. Large numbers of Grouse from August to 

 January. Snipe and Woodcock, November to March. Two 

 large Eagles have their eyrie on the cliffs of a mountain close to 

 the lighthouse : they kill several lambs. Geese, Ducks, and 

 Hens, and carry them to the mountain with the greatest ease." 

 — George H. Brownell. 



Slyne Head, North. — "Autumn: Very few land-birds visit 

 this station." — Robert Tyrell. 



Slyne Head, South. — "Spring: The Tern used to arrive for 

 breeding perhaps about May 4th or 6th ; this year they did not 

 come until June 4th, and not one bird hatched on the island this 

 year. Sea-hawks arrive the first week in April, and leave about 

 the end of October. I have not seen a Crow for two years, nor a 

 Starling this year." — William Callaghan. 



Arran Island, North. — " Autumn : No birds struck the lantern 

 in 1882. I have not observed any Blackbirds, Thrushes, or 

 Starlings, during the past year." — John Kelly. 



Straiv Island. — " Autumn : All descriptions of birds were 

 fewer this year than usual." — Charles Boyle. 



Arran Island, South. — " Autumn : Only a few ' Stares ' struck 

 the lantern this winter." — John O'Donnell. 



Samphire Island. — " Spring : Not a single bird struck last 

 winter, the chief cause being that we have a red light all round 

 east and south, which birds never strike. Almost all birds strike 

 with S.E. winds, and generally on the east side of the lantern." 

 — Michael O'Donnell. 



T ear aght Rock. — "Spring: The Sea-parrots are so plentiful 

 here (April 25th) that on sonie occasions the whole island is 

 completely covered with them : they are just now beginning to 

 find their way into their holes. There is some solitary bird here. 



