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Cormorants) continued to arrive from 1st of April to 1st of June 
to breed. They were not as numerous as last year. All left 
before August 15th, except the Cormorants and a few Royal 
Gulls. Eagles always remain on island.—G. H. Brownell. 
Slyne Head, North.—The number of sea-birds is chiefly regu- 
lated by the feeding. There is a greater number for the past 
two months (June and July) than has been the case for the past 
five years.—Robert Tyrell. 
Arran Island, N.—Puffins, Gulls, Gannets, Curlew, Seapie, 
Cormorants, and Sandlarks come and go according to the state 
of the sea—if wild, none, and vice versa.—Thomas Fortune. 
Straw Island.—SPRinGc: The number of birds were few dur- 
ing the spring. The Lark, Hedge Sparrow, Robin, Wagtail, and 
Linnet are remarkable for their total absence this year, though 
numerous in the springs of 1883 and 1884. AuTumn: A great 
scarcity of sea-birds of all kinds, especially the Gannet. Land- 
birds—z.e., “ Crows,” Rooks, Larks, Starlings, Thrushes—plen- 
tiful, especially young Starlings, Thrushes, and Blackbirds. 
From 13th November to 17th November they came in rushes 
during severe weather.—Charles Boyle. 
Tearaght—DBirds remaining September 1st, Choughs, Hooded 
Crows, Wheatear, Wrens, Rock Pipit, Peregrine, Kittiwake (old 
and young), Royal Gulls, Herring Gulls (old and young), Cor- 
morants, and Oyster-Catcher—Edward M‘Carron. 
Skelligs—In February, Gannets, Cormorants, Kittiwakes 
(mostly young), Herring Gulls, a few Black-Backed do., and 
flocks of the Black-Billed Auk (young Razorbill—R. M. B.) 
fishing round rock.—Thomas Kerley. 
HAWES. 
Fastnet.—October 16th, one at 5 am. ; October 20th, one; 
November 9th, two; 10th, one; 13th, one. 
Mine Head.—October 5th, a Light-brown Hawk, and on several 
other occasions. 11th December, a small Blue Hawk. 8th 
January 1886, saw one capture a Redwing; it was a small 
Hawk, and unable to carry it away. 
Dungarvan. March 15th, one Falcon Hawk; Nov. 18th, one. 
Coningbeg Light-ship.— April 19th, one Sparrowhawk; 28th, 
two Hawks. September 26th and October 9th, one Sparrow- 
hawk seen. 
