1916. Notes. lyi. 
Local Name for Irish Jay. 
As the Missel-Thrush is, throughout Ireland, almost universally called 
the Jay, some difficulty is experienced about provi ing the true Jay 
with a popular name in those districts in which it is a somewhat recent 
settler. In this part of N.W. Wexford (where I first saw it in 1891) 
the names of " Strange Jay " and " Foreign Jay " were applied to it 
soon after its arrival ; but now it has been with us twenty -five years 
a more definite opinion has evidently come to prevail on the subject 
of its origin, for I hear it commonly spoken of as the " American Jay." 
Thus, by a capricious inversion, one of the very few birds in our fauna 
that can be claimed as exclusively Irish is set down in the local vocabulary 
as an undoubted alien, while a real invader which is not known to have 
been much more than a hundred years resident amongst us is accepted 
as our only true native " Jay". 
C. B. Moffat. 
Ballyhyland, Co. Wexford. 
British and Irish Ornithologists. 
We have received from Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Part iii. of W. H. 
Mullens and H. Kirke Swann's " Bibliography of British Ornithology 
from the earliest times to the end of 191 2." The complete volume will 
be a valuable work of reference with a short biographical notice of each 
ornithologist and a complete list of his writings on birds. 
Daubenton's Bat in Co. Wexford. 
A haunt of Daubenton's Bat was discovered here this summer by a 
man named Thomas Doran, who was struck with the unusual spectacle 
of a number of bats " with a good deal of white in their colour " skimming 
over a small piece of water close to his house. On being told of the 
occurrence I watched beside the pool, and had the satisfaction of seeing 
the white-breasted figure of Myotis daubentoni begin its gliding flight 
about the surface of the water some sixty-six minutes after the local 
sunset [i.e., at 9.15 p.m. on evening of July 23rd). The late hour at 
which this bat makes its appearance is probably the chief reason why 
it has not been noticed in a much larger number of localities. It has 
already been recorded from County Wexford, on the strength of a 
specimen sent to Mr. Barrington in 1891 from the Lucifer Shoals light- 
ship ; but as the lightship in question is situated nine miles off the coast 
I think it is not superfluous to add a mainland station. 
C. B. Moffat. 
Ballhyland, Co. Wexford. 
