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248 inland parts of the country? It appears to me very evident that these birds, holding such a westerly course, were going direct to Iceland; for birds making Norway and Lapland their destination would keep more to the eastward on their course, a few, perhaps, touching the English coast, while the bulk of the flight would keep along the Dutch and Danish coasts.

Addendum.—Through inadvertence, I omitted the fact that in 1893 a specimen was obtained on Achill Island, Co. Mayo, by Mr. Sheridan, of Slieve Mort Hotel. It may interest some readers to know that, two or three days after the flight seen by Mr. Kirkwood on May 10th had left the island, they were succeeded by a little party of five birds, which remained up to the 19th, on which day I had the pleasure of seeing three of them; and on the 26th Mr. Kirkwood, calling here, informed me that a pair of the Wagtails were still on the island, haunting an ivy-covered cliff, as if going to build there. However, I do not think it likely that they will breed, and that they were only detained from continuing their northern journey by the longcontinued north-west winds.