no The hish Naturalist. Julys. 



had collected in the West, while Mr. Halbert suggested to 

 me some new sources of information. 



In the list of Irish names of Birds I have placed the 

 one first which appeared the best known and the one which 

 might be used if necessary on a descriptive label. Several 

 friends asked me to give the correct pronunciation of the 

 Irish words. As many of the Irish sounds are quite peculiar 

 this request is difficult to comply with. It would also make 

 this article very much longer than I had intended. As a 

 compromise I have endeavoured, with Mr. Gogan's help, to 

 give the approximate sound in English of the first name 

 for most of the species mentioned. The first name as it 

 is pronounced is placed in brackets immediately after the 

 English name, and certain symbols are used at Mr. Gogan's 

 suggestion. For instance an mverted e is equal to 



the English i in the word " sir." The sound of ch is 

 alwa^^s hard as in the Scotch loch, or the German " kirche." 

 The j is equal to the consonantal i or y (as in young). The 

 d is pronounced approximately as a " in " father," or in 

 *' was," the e as the " ee" in meet " the u as oo " in 

 moon," and the mr as in the English " how." 



List of Names. 

 (The numbers in brackets refer to the Bibliography, p. 129), 



Auk. 



Great Auk or Gare Fowl. 



Little Auk (compare Black Guillemot), 



I do not know an Irish name for either species. The 

 Great Auk became extinct about a century ago, and there 

 are reasons for the belief that it was abundant in Ireland 

 in former times. 



Barnacle Goose (see Goose). 



Barn Owx (see Owl.) 



Bittern (bim-dn) 



t>«nniln (1), bonn^,n (12), botinAn t>iii'6e (6), botUn U^n^ (6), 

 f ce^pn-Al (6). 



