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small flocks being seen on one day_, from which a few birds were 
kiUed by himself and his companion. Many might have been 
obtained had the flocks been followed^ as they were very tame 
when sprung, and alighted again within thirty or forty yards. On 
the 12th Feb. 1849, a flock of seven or eight birds was observed 
there. The turnstone is a visitant to the Kerry coast and at 
Miltown Malbay, county Clare, numbers were observed in Sep- 
tember 1837, in little parties of two or three together, which 
admitted of a close approach, occasionally within ten or twelve 
paces. t 
I am disposed to believe that the turnstone may breed in Ire- 
land, though no proof can be offered. On June 25, 1836, my 
friend Mr. Eichard K. Sinclaire saw four of these birds (of which 
one was adult, and the others young) shot from a flock of six, on 
one of the islets of Strangford longh. It can hardly be supposed 
that birds bred in a higher latitude would have migrated hither so 
early as midsummer. Mr. J. V. Stewart, in a letter written in 
Feb. 1837, stated, that although he had neither found the nest nor 
eggs in the north-west of Donegal, he had most frequently killed 
the turnstone there in the breeding season. Four have been 
already mentioned as seen on the retired island of Lambay on the 
22nd of May. On the the 11th of that month, in another year, 
one was seen on the strand near Dublin. Other single individuals 
have already been noticed as obtained in May and June ; but their 
occurrence hardly affects the question. Mr. T. F. Neligan was 
of opinion that this bird breeds in Kerry, from the circumstance 
of one which he shot at the end of May or beginning of June, 
1837, containing on dissection an egg just ready for exclusion. 
In the present year, 1849, a correspondent remarked, on the 
20th of May, in reference to the coast at Drogheda : — Turn- 
stones are still here. I shot two, in the most beautiful plumage 
I ever saw, on the 16th.^'’{ At Strangford lough on the 3rd of 
June, Mr. J. E. Garrett noted that On the small island called 
Gabbogh, Ipng between Kirkcubbin and Greyabbey, I had the 
* Mr. T. F. Neligan. f Rev. T. Knox. t J- Montgomery. 
