170 Mr. W. Thompson's Additions to the Fauna of Ireland. 



some parts of the plumage of the few specimens examined disposed 

 in the form of streaks, which they were said not to be in any part 

 of the individual obtained in Ireland. The specimen belongs to 

 Mr. Samuel Moss of Youghal. 



The Crex Builloni has occurred at various seasons in different 

 parts of England, and is said to breed in some of the northern pro- 

 vinces of France, hence we should expect its occasional appearance 

 in Ireland. 



The Whiskered Tern, Ste?'na leucopareia, Natterer ; Temm. Ma- 

 nuel, &c. p. 746 (1820). 



When in Dublin in the month of March last, I saw in the collec- 

 tion of T. W. Warren, Esq., an adult specimen of this very rare 

 Tern, which was shot in September 1839 "on the river Liffey, be- 

 tween Ringsend and the Pigeon House fort, Dublin bay," by John 

 Hill, Esq. This gentleman, from shooting much at one period in 

 that bay and being much interested in scarce birds, obtained some 

 species of the greatest rarity. 



The S. leucopareia was discovered by M. Natterer of Vienna in 

 the south of Hungary, and inhabits chiefly the eastern portion of the 

 south of Europe. It has very rarely occurred in the more western 

 countries of the continent. Temminck, when first publishing the 

 species (1820), mentioned that M. de la Motte of Abbeville had on 

 one occasion seen several individuals, and killed three of them in a 

 marsh on the coast of Picardy in France. But one individual — 

 killed at the end of August 1836 at Lyme in Dorsetshire — is noticed 

 in Yarrell's ■ British Birds ' as having been obtained in England. 

 Specimens of this bird in the British Museum are labelled " Hy- 

 drochelidon* hybrida, India ? Hardwicke bequest," and " Cape Seas, 

 Dr. Andrew Smith's collection." If, as quoted by Schlegel (Revue 

 Crit. Ois. d'Eur. cxxxi.), this be St. hybrida of Pallas, that name has 

 the advantage of priority. 



Sterna velox, Ruppell. 



In March last I had the opportunity of examining in Mr. R. Ball's 

 possession in Dublin, a specimen of a Tern, the species of which I 

 did not know. It was left at my friend's house early in the month of 

 January, and evidently had been but recently skinned. Mr. Watters, 

 jun., to whom the specimen now belongs — and who has commenced 

 forming a collection of native birds, which comprises some of the 

 rarest species — assured me, that he saw it in a fresh state, and that 

 it was killed near Sutton — a place on the road between Dublin and 

 Howth— at the end of December 1846 : two others of the same spe- 

 cies were stated by the shooter to have been in company with it. As 

 the bird was unknown to me, I noted down the following particulars 

 of it, which are here given that others may have an opportunity of 

 forming their judgment upon the species : — 



* Boie. 



