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“ and occasionally at other seasons,” as the account of the bird which 
follows would show. In 1850, one of two birds which were together 
was shot near Ballywalter (Down) on the 22nd of February ; — two ap- 
peared on the stony embankment of the railway at Conswater, Belfast 
Bay, on the 8th of March ; — and two were shot, from a flock of seven 
or eight, on the 9th of May, at Boberts’s Cove (county Cork). 
Order NATATOBES. 
Great Wild Swan, vol. iii. p. 3. 
May 1850. One of these swans, preserved at Lissanoure Castle 
(county Antrim), was shot on the lake there “ ten or twelve years ago.” 
Bewick’s Swan, vol. iii. p. 18. 
The Bev. T. Knox has favoured me with a description of a swan of 
this species killed at Scariff, on the Shannon, on February 2, 1842. A 
young swan — C. BewicJcii it is presumed (see p. 21) — was shot on a 
pond near Dingle (county Kerry), in the winter of 1849-50. In the 
following season, about the end of November 1850, two of this species 
were brought to Dublin market. 
So early as the end of October 1850, three wild swans (it is not 
known of what species) were observed for some time within eighty 
yards of the shore of Belfast Bay, at Baven Hill. 
Wild Geese, of different species. 
Notes by B. J. Montgomery, Esq., on wild-goose shooting in Mayo, 
in the present year — -from the beginning of February until the end of 
March 1850 — seem to me well worthy of a place here. Fie remarks — 
“ I shot a great number, though with much difficulty, having either to 
stalk them regularly, if in the day-time, or to lie in a blind for one or 
two hours before they came to feed air night. Wild-goose shooting is 
the finest sport I ever enjoyed, and I would go any distance for it. 
Think of seeing a flock of three or four hundred coming down on one 
of the lakes where you are advantageously posted both for observing 
them and shooting.” The grey lag goose formerly was very common in 
Mayo, but is now very scarce. I only saw three while there ; one of 
them I wounded, but failed in getting. I watched them through a 
