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Carpenter for so kindly allowing me to examine many skins 

 in the collection of the Science and Art Museum. 



Campbei,!*, 



Barrett-Hamii^ton, 

 Patten, . 



Warren, 



Payne-Gai^wey, 

 Saunders, 



LiFFORD, 



Cordeaux, 



Howard, 



Davies, 



Norgate, 

 Cordeaux, 



Wa INTERS, 



Harting, 

 Cunningham, J. T., . 



Recent Literature. 

 RufFs at Inch, Lough Swilly {^Irish Nat., voh i., 



P 195)- 

 Ruff in Co. Wicklow (Jruh Nat.., vol. iv„ p. 296). 



Sea P'owl of Dubhn Coast (^Irish Nat., vol. viii., 



p. 225). 

 {a) Ruff in Co. SHgo {Zoologist, 1884, p. 429). 

 (J)) {Zoologist, 1896, p. 384). 

 Letters to Young Shooters (1896, p. 439). 

 Manual of British Birds (1899, p. 599-600). 

 Zoologist, 1896, p. 5l\ 

 The Ruff and Reeve in Lincolnshire {Zoologist, 



1890, p. 204-209). 

 Breeding of Ruffs in Lancashire {Zoologist, 1884, 



p. 467). 

 In quest of Birds on the Munio River {Zoologist, 



1895, p. 326-335). 

 Food of Birds {Zoologist, 1881, p. 411). 

 Zoologist, 1884, p. 446 and 466. 



Fauna of Outer Hebrides {Zoologist, 1896, p. 142). 

 Ruff in Winter in Sussex {Zoologist, 1895, p. 150- 



151). 

 Sexual Dimorphism (1900, pp. 108, 154, 155). 



B^XPI^ANATION OF Pl,ATE 6. 



Map of Ireland showing counties shaded from which Ruffs have been 

 recorded from 1821 to 1899. The horizontal shading indicates counties 

 in which the Ruff was known previous to 1853. Only three of the 

 maritime counties (^Louth, Meath, and Leitrim) are yet without record of 

 the bird. 



Trinity College, Dublin. 



