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ON THE FAUNA OF IRELAND. 365 
landicus as distinguished by Mr. Hancock from F*. Islandicus*, 
has in one instance been obtained in Donegal}: under the latter 
name Mr. Templeton records a specimen, killed in the county 
of Antrim, but as both these terms were then used synony- 
mously, it must remain doubtful whether it was this or the 
former species. By this naturalist the F. Subbuteo was on two 
occasions observed in Ireland. Falco rufipes has once been ob- 
tained, in the neighbourhood of Dublin. Buteo Lagopus is 
avery rare winter, as Pernis apivorus is a summer, visitant. 
Smith, in his History of Cork, (completed in 1749,) remarks of 
the Milvus Ictinus, ‘These birds are so common that they 
need no particular description; ...... with us it remains all 
the year{.” At present the species is unknown in that county. 
The terms Kite and Goshawk being applied indiscriminately 
in Ireland to the Buzzards, and the latter sometimes to the 
Peregrine Falcon, renders it somewhat dubious whether the 
proper names have always been legitimately employed in the 
county histories, &. The Milvus Ictinus has, on what was 
considered sufficient authority, been noticed as an extremely 
rare visitant to the North §. 
Of our desiderata, the Circus cineraceus is a species, which 
from its general resemblance to C. cyaneus, might readily be 
overlooked ; it will probably yet be added to the Irish cata- 
logue. Elanus furcatus, an American species, has only twice 
been taken in Great Britain. 
Fam. Strigide. 4 
Ireland. Great Britain. 
Bubo maximus, Sibbald. + 
Otus vulgaris, Flem. + 
» Brachyotos, Cuv. + 
Scops Aldrovandi, Will. & Ray. ar 
ue 
Surnia nyctea, Dum. 
0 Surnia funerea, Dum. 
Strix flammea, Z. 
Ulula stridula, Selby. 
0 
++ 
Noctua Tengmalmi, Selby. 
0 »  passerina, Selby. 
Of the occurrence of either Bubo maximus or Scops Aldro- 
vandi in Ireland, there is but a single record. Otus vulgaris 
* Annals of Natural History, vol. ii. p. 249. 
+ The description of this individual, supplied me, previous to the appearance 
of Mr. Hancock’s paper, by John Vandeleur Stewart, Esq., of Rockhill, 
Letterkenny, in whose collection it is, is so ample, as to prove its species 
beyond any doubt. 
t Vol. ii. p. 326, 2nd edit. 
§ Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. i. p. 156. 
