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230 The Irish Naturalist. [October, 



Rose-coloured Pastor in Donegal. 



A beautiful specimen of the Rose-coloured Pastor {Pastor roseus) was 

 shot by Mr. A. Brooke, of Killybegs, in his garden on the 20th July. The 

 bird is an adult male in perfect plumage. This is the first specimen I 

 have met in an experience of twenty-five years. 



E. Wit^ijams. 



Dublin. 



Occurrence of the Golden Oriole and Night Heron In Co. 



Wexford, 



On the authority of my friend, Mr. E. A. Gibbon, I have to record the 

 occurrence of a female Golden Oriole (Oriolus galbula, L.) in Wexford, 

 early in May or late in April of this year. Mr. Gibbon saw the bird in 

 the shop of Messrs. Wheelocks. gunsmiths, at Wexford, on May 4th, and 

 ascertained that it had been picked up still warm and recently dead, and 

 with the head much injured, under a tree near Kilmore, by a working 

 man. While still at Wheclock's the skin of this specimen was unfortu- 

 nately destroyed by a cat. The Golden Oriole is a very rare spring or 

 early summer visitor to the County Wexford, and, as far as I am aware, 

 the present is the fifth known occurrence of the bird in this county. 



A much rarer bird, and I think, new to the county fauna, is a 



fine male Night Heron {Nyctico/ax griseus, L.), now in the Museum of 



Science and Art at Dublin, and which was obtained in a little stream 



near the old castle close to Killinick, by a man who, in ignorance of its 



value, was about to throw it away. Fortunately, however, the bird was 



recognised by a neighbour and purchased for half-a-crown. It is said 



that a second bird frequented the same stream at about the same time, 



but eventually took its departure uninjured. I am indebted for this 



information to my friends, Dr. Scharff (of the Museum), Messrs. C. B. 



Moffat and E. A. Gibbon. So far as I know, there are not fifteen 



recorded instances of the occurrence of the Night Heron in Ireland, and 



some of these took place many years ago : the bird has occurred both in 



spring and autumn. 



G. E. H. Barrett-Hamii/ton. 

 Kilmanock. 



The Black Grouse— A Correction. 



T wish to point out an error which has escaped my notice in my 

 paper on " The Introduction of the Black Grouse and of some other Birds 

 into Ireland," which was printed in the Irish Naturalist for February, 

 ! S99> PP 37-43- At page 38 it is stated that Mr. Lyddeker discovered in 

 the Dublin Museum of Science and Art " two bones " which he identified 

 as those of a Black Grouse. The number should, however, be one, and 

 not two, and I am indebted to my friend, Mr. R. J. Ussher, for calling 

 my attention to the mistake. 



G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton. 



Kilmanock. 



