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Great Britain. It is therefore all the more necessary to give the 
records in detail, in order to arrive at any general and trust- 
worthy conclusion. 
To the Commissioners of Irish Lights, to the secretary, Mr 
Owen Armstrong; and to Captain Boxer, R.N., we continue to 
be under many obligations. Itis, however, to the light-keepers 
themselves we are most indebted, since they have gratuitously 
placed at our disposal much of their leisure, and evinced an 
interest in this inquiry which could scarcely have been antici- 
pated. Some of their names must be specially mentioned in 
connection with the occurrence of rare birds in the report for 
1886, which promises to be an interesting one. 
ALEXANDER G. MORE. 
RICHARD M. BARRINGTON. 
