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am credibly informed that a few others were obtained about the šame 

 time in different parts of Ireland. 



Great spotted JVoodpecker, Picus major, Linn. A specimen of 

 Pic. major, preserved in the Museura of the Royal Dublin Society, 

 was shot in the vicinity of that city a few years since. In the manu- 

 script Notės of tlie late Mr. Tenipleton it is stated that an indivi- 

 dual of the šame species \vas sent to him, in August, 1802, from the 

 county of Londonderry. 



Little Bustard, Otis Telrax, Linn. Two birds of this rare species 

 were seen in the county of \VickIow, on the 23rd of August, 1833, 

 and one of them was shot by Mr. Reside, for whom it was set up 

 by Mr. W. S. Wall, Bird Preserver, Dublin. 



Velvet Scoter, Oidemia fusca, Flem. In December, 1833, a spe- 

 cimen of this Duck vvas killed at Clontarf, near Dublin. Its occur- 

 rence on the Irish coast in one or two other instances has been com- 

 municated to me. 



Red-necked Grebe, Podiceps ruhricollis, Lath. Dr. J. D. Marshall 

 of Belfast informs me that a specimen of this bird, which he pos- 

 sesses, vvas procured in the neighbourhood of that tovvn in the au- 

 tumn of 1831. 



Great Auk, Alca imperinis, Linn. One of these birds, taken in 

 1834 off the coast of the county of \Vaterford, is preserved in the col- 

 lection of Dr. Burkilt of Waterford. It lived in confinement for some 

 months. 



In Sampson's ' Londonderry ' it is erroneously stated that Alca 

 impennis freąuents the rocks of that county as vvell as those of 

 Donegal : the Razor-hill, Alca Torda, Linn., which is common to 

 boti) counties, being omitted in Mr. Sampson's Catalogue, is, I pre- 

 sume, the bird alluded to under the name oi Alca impennis. 



Pomarhine Skua, Lestris Pomarhinus, Temm. O f this Skiia, three 

 specimens vvere procured in different parts of Ireland, within a short 

 period, about the commencement of the winter of 1834-5. The 

 first, purchased alive at Youghal, county Cork, on the 12th of Oc- 

 tober, vvas caught upon a hook, at sea, and lived for a fevv vveeks, 

 part of vvhich time it vvas in the Garden of the Zoological Society 

 of Dublin. The second specimen vvas shot in Belfast Bay, on the 

 18th of October, and is in the collection of Dr. J. D. Marshall. 

 Both these individuals vvere immature. The third, an adult bird, 

 vvas shot from among a flock of Gulįs, in the Phcenix Park, Dublin, 

 on the 5th of November, and, vvith the first mentioned, is in the pos- 

 session of Robert Bali, Esq., of Dublin. 



Sapphirine Gurnard, Trigla Hirundo, Linn., is commonly taken 

 on the north-east coast of Ireland : it not unusually attains 2 feet 

 in length. By the Hovvth (county Dublin) fishing-boats I have seen 

 this species brought ashore in considerable ąuantity. 



Lineated Gurnard, Trigla lineata, Linn. Onthe SSthofFebruary, 



