Barnacles

In a *Chorographical Description of West, or Il-Jar Connaught*, by Rhoderic O'Flaherty, Esq., 1684, published by the Irish Archæological Society in 1846, the bernacle goose is thus mentioned: "There is the bird engendered by the sea out of timber long lying in the sea. Some call them *clakes*, and *soland geese*, and some puffins; others *bernacles*, because they resemble them. We call them *girrinn*. Martin, in his Western Isles of Scotland, says:― "There are also the *cleek geese*. The shells in which this fowl is said to be produced, are found in several isles sticking to trees by the bill;…