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Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Kock Pigeon, and Cormorants. Those in 

 italics are always here. The Herring Gull was called previously 

 * large white Gull.' I wish to draw special attention to the 

 great number of ' Crows ' which passed over this island from the 

 5th to the 25th Nov. They were flying at a height of seven or 

 eight hundred feet. When passing this island their flight would 

 become irregular. Some rested for a little while, and a few were 

 to be seen some days afterwards having a tired appearance." 

 [I expressed a doubt about the identification of the species to 

 Mr. McCarron. — K. M. B.] He then wrote : — " I was standing 

 within ten paces of one several minutes, and it had not the 

 excrescence round the base of bill, and I think I am correct in 

 saying it was not the Kook." [Neither Mr. More nor myself 

 have ever seen a freshly killed Irish specimen of the Carrion 

 Crow. In the 3rd * Report on Migration,' p. 86, large flights of 

 Rooks coming from the sea in a S.W. direction are mentioned as 

 occurring at Blackrock Lighthouse, nine miles off Mayo. 

 -R. M. B.] 



Eagle. 



Clare Island. — April 4th, a young speckled Eagle perched 

 at noon on a pinnacle of cliff about two hundred yards from 

 lighthouse, then went to its eyrie in the highest cliffs. The two 

 Eagles are here still in their usual abode in the highest cliffs. 

 Nov. 20th, large Eagle close to station. 



Tearaght. — Jan. 16th, 1885, one passed from E. in front of 

 dwellings, and round west of island, when it rose to a great 

 height and moved steadily N.E. towards mainland, accompanied 

 for some distance by three Choughs and a Peregrine Falcon, 

 which appeared mere specks beside it. Frost and snow on Kerry 

 mountains. 



Gkeenland Falcon. 



Blackrock, Mayo. — March 10th, one Greenland Falcon about 

 all day ; wind S.W., strong, snow showers. The Falcon was 

 shot, and was much smaller than the other one, only in better 

 condition. [The "other one" probably refers to the specimen 

 entered in the schedule for 1883 ; see 5th Report, p. 90. 

 — R. M. B.] 



