BARRINGTON, Richard M. The Migration of Birds as observed at Irish Lighthouses and Lightships. Including the Original Reports from 1888-97, now published for the first time, and an analysis of these and of the previously published reports from 1881-87. LIMITED TO 350 COPIES ONLY

Including the Original Reports from 1888-97, now published for the first time, and an analysis of these and of the previously published reports from 1881-87. Together with an appendix giving the measurements of about 1600 wings. Folding map frontispiece. London: Porter. & Dublin: Ponsonby, 1900. Octavo. First and only edition. pp. xxiv, 667. Red pebbled cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Lighthouse with birds circling in gilt on upper cover. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. Very rare.
Richard Manliffe Barrington (1849-1915), Irish Naturalist, was born at Fassaroe near Bray. He was a farmer and land valuer. He was educated at Trinity College where he gained an M.A. He wrote reports on the flora of Lough Ree, Lough Erne, Ben Bulben, Tory Island and the Blaskets all published by the Royal Irish Academy but most of his scientific papers are on birds. His collection of bird specimens (wings and legs of birds collected by light-keepers) stored in paper envelopes are conserved in the National Museum of Ireland and the Ulster Museum.
Barrington was one of the leaders of the Royal Irish Academy Rockall expedition of 1896 with Robert Lloyd Praeger and John A. Harvie Brown of Dunipace, a Scottish gentleman naturalist. Barrington was a Fellow of the Linnean Society, a Member of the British Ornithologists’ Union, and of the British Association Committee for obtaining Observations on the Migration of Birds at Lighthouses and Lightships formed to study bird migration.
A very scarce title of which only 350 copies were printed - an invaluable source of information on bird migration in Ireland.

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