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and 3rd November (same year) thirty-six were killed at 
Point of Ayre, and six at Bahama. On 20th February 
1890 one hundred and forty-seven were killed at the Point 
of Ayre, along with many Blackbirds, Thrushes, and other 
birds. ‘For some hours continuous flocks, attracted by 
the light, kept striking the glass or lantern of the light- 
house. In the morning the floor of the balcony outside 
the dome was covered with dead birds, heaped one upon 
the other, and lying in pools of blood, whilst on the ground 
were many others, which, on striking the glass, had fallen 
clear of the balcony’ (Crellin, Y, Z. M1, 1. ii. 271). They 
are noted at Langness as early as 7th July (1885), and 
appeared at Bahama in numbers on Ist and 5th January 
(1887), but are most abundant through the autumn passage. 
In Ireland the Starling is increasing as a breeding 
species, but is ‘vastly more numerous’ in winter. In 
Galloway, where it was formerly scarce, it is now abundant, 
and is on the increase in the north-western counties of 
England, as indeed generally over the British Isles. It is 
plentiful, and has long been so, in the outlying Scottish 
islands, as on some of the remote isles of Ireland. 
PYRRHOCORAX GRACULUS (Linn). 
CHOUGH. 
Manx, *Caaig (Cr.); Caag (M.S. D.). (Cf. Sc. Gaelic, Cathag ; 
Trish, Caig, Cadhog.) I have not heard that the name 
is applied, as in Irish and Scotch Gaelic, to the Jackdaw ; it 
is always used by Manx people who know the Chough, 
unless they have learned other names through books, and is 
pronounced ‘Keg.’ M.S. D. translates it ‘Chough, Daw, cr 
Jay’; Cregeen, ‘Jay.’ 
It is strange that none of the earlier writers who touch 
on Manx zoology mention this species, and it seems to 
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