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The Irish Naturalist* 



November, 



This SO absorbed him that though, in 1890, he was | 

 associated with A. G. More, R. J. Ussher, and Robert j 

 Warren as the proposed joint authors of a new work on the 

 " Birds of Ireland," he soon found it advisable to with- - 

 draw his name from that undertaking, and concentrate his 

 ornithological attention on the migration schedules and 

 specimens. { 



His large book on the Migration of Birds as observed 

 at Irish light stations embodies the result — at least up to 

 1898, for the accumulation of facts and specimens went on \ 

 after the publication of the book as unceasingly as before. \ 

 Perhaps the chief feature of the book — as compared with 

 other works on the same subject — is that by printing the 

 lightkeepers' reports in full Barrington publishes all his data, 

 so that no risk is incurred of any over -confident statement 

 of conclusions founded on those data carrying more weight 

 than an examination of the data warrants. As the evidence 

 is so largely cumulative, this is an important merit. 



One important product of the Migration inquiry was the 

 wonderful Fassaroe Museum, in which the rare birds re- ] 

 ceived from lighthouses, and the legs and wings of the ' 

 commoner species, were arranged and preserved. As many ^ 

 as sixteen of the species represented in this collection (or t 

 eighteen if we include two that are suspected of having ; 

 received partly assisted " passages) are birds that had not \ 

 been proved to visit Ireland at all until the first specimens 

 were sent by the lightkeepers to Fassaroe. The eighteen ; 

 birds (bracketing the doubtful ones) obtained for the first ; 

 time in Ireland through Barrington's lighthouse corres- 



pondents, are the following : — 



Greenland Wheat ear. 

 Lesser Whitethroat. 

 Yellow-browed Warbler. 

 Melodious Warbler. 

 Lapland Bunting. 

 Eastern Sky -lark. 

 Short -toed Lark. 

 Shore -Lark. 



Reed Warbler. 

 Aquatic Warbler. 

 Pallas' s Grasshopper Warbler. 

 Dart ford Warbler. 

 Redbreasted Flycatcher. 

 [Black Snowbird]. 

 Greenland Redpoll. 

 Little Bunting. 

 Woodchat Shrike. 



[Yelluw-billed Sheathbill]. 



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