72 The Irish Naturalist. August, 



Migration of Lapwing, Redpoll and Goldfinch. 



There is such a very marked migration of these three 

 species as regards this district that I wonder if it is so 

 marked elsewhere. In winter there are practically none of 

 these birds here, and their spring arrival is quite as striking 

 as that of the regular foreign migrants. The Lapwing are 

 seen from the end of February ; at first keeping to the Lough 

 Erne shores in flocks, but by the end of March settling down 

 at their nesting sites. Fermanagh has plenty of marshy 

 flats and bogs which are regularly occupied by these birds, 

 though, unfortunately, since the severe 1916-17 winter a 

 large proportion of these noisy sites have been silent and 

 empty. But in winter I hardly ever see Lapwing. 



The Lesser Redpoll and the Goldfinch are seldom seen 

 in winter, but both species begin to arrive in the last days 

 of April and beginning of May : and in a few days the 

 district swarms with Redpoll. The Goldfinches are never 

 common, but the influx can be exemplified by some half 

 dozen regularly appearing about my house at that time, 

 eating the Dandelion. 



Enniskillen. 



IRISH SOCIETIES. 



ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Recent gifts include Green and INIona Monkeys from Dr. E. Bate, a 

 Rhesus Monkey from Capt. R. A. Ransom, a Bonnet Monkey from Mr. 

 W. R. Morris, a Capuchin Monkey from Mrs. Welch, Rabbits from Mrs. 

 Wilson,. Mr. Ludlow Hughes and Messrs. H. and J. Thompson ; thirteen 

 African Finches from Mr. G. Low, a Blue-fronted Amazon from Mr. E. 

 Holt, a Grey Parrot from Mrs. Byrne, a Peacock from Mrs. Bindon Stoney, 

 a young Alligator from Mrs. Rcid, two Green Lizards, a Chameleon and 

 two Salamanders from Prof. A. F. Dixon, Golden Carp from Sir V. Moore 

 and Mr. A. Blanche, and 10,000 Trout ova from Dr. R. R. Leeper. Among 

 purchases lately made are a Mandrill, a Yellow Baboon, a Red Howler 

 Monkey, a pair of White-eared Marmosets, a Patagonian Cavy, a Paca, a 

 Wallaby, a Grey Parrot, a Red and Blue Macaw, a Guatemalan Amazon, 

 two AxololJs, twelve l.o.u h, four Calfisli and ciL-ht I'aradisi'-lish. Two 

 Lion-ru])s have be(Mi l)()ni (the parents " Seaiuus" and " Nuaja"), and 

 three ('ana(han Cieese liaUhcd in the GardiMis. 



