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The foregoing table does not show the relative numbers of 

 birds striking ; it only exhibits the number of stations at which 

 each species is reported to have struck. For example, the 

 Blackbird is reported to have struck the glass at nine stations, 

 but hundreds did so, and were killed or disabled ; the Woodcock 

 struck at six stations, but only seven birds actually struck, all of 

 which were killed outright. 



Sea-birds rarely strike, and land-birds seem to strike light- 

 houses on islands more than on headlands. 



The light-keepers having been requested to forward a leg and 

 wing of every bird which they were not able to identify with 

 certainty, the following were received : 



Leg and wing of Ring Ouzel from the Skelligs ... shot Sept. 17th. 



Skin of the Hedgesparrow from Tearaght ,, Oct. 3rd. 



Wing of the Black Eedstart from Skelligs ,. Nov. 13th. 



Two Snow Buntings in summer plumage from Arranmore ,, 1st week in May. 

 Snow Bunting in winter plumage from Skelligs ... ,, Sept. 18th. 



Wing of the Greenfinch from Skelligs ,, Nov. 



Leg and wing of a hen Chaffinch from Tearaght ... ,, Oct. 26th. 



*Leg of a Chough from Tearaght. 



*Leg and wing of a Woodcock from Tearaght. 



Leg and wing of Corn Crake from Rockabill. Struck lantern. Sent May 10th. 



Skin of a Water Rail from St. John Point. Struck lantern. 



Skin of a young Razorbill from Tearaght shot Jan. 13th, 1885. 



*Wings of the Stormy Petrel from Tearaght. 

 A Wren in the flesh from Eagle Island. 



Do. do. Skelligs ,, Sept. 4th. 



Snow Bunting from Eagle Island ,, April 16th. 



General Remarks of Light-Keepers. 



Fastnet. — " Spring : The Gannet does not breed on the rock, 

 and never did ; in fact no bird could build, as the rock is too 

 small. There has been a great scarcity of birds this spring. No 

 birds of any description seen in June or to 16th July." — James 

 Walsh. 



Old Head, Kinsale. — " Spring : I understand from those 

 fishing off this head that sea-birds arrive on the fishing grounds 

 from daylight to 10 a.m., always from the eastward. Sky Larks, 

 Titlarks, two Falcon Hawks, thirty to forty Rock Pigeons, Grey 



* Obtained where the Peregrine feeds on rock. 



