366 REPORT—1840. 
and Strix flammea are common and resident. Otus Brachyo- 
tos is a regular winter resident; at the same season Surnia 
nyctea has occasionally been met with. Ulula stridula is in- 
cluded in the older county histories; on what was considered 
sufficient authority it was noticed as an Irish species in Annals 
of Natural History, vol. i. p. 156. 
Surnia funerea has its place in the British catalogue from a 
single individual having been taken off the coast of Cornwall. 
Noctua Tengmalmi and N. passerina have been very rarely met 
with in England. 
Order 2.—INSESSORES. 
Div. 1.—DENTIROSTRES. 
Fam. Laniade. 
Ireland. Great Britain. 
Lanius Excubitor, Z. + 
0 Lanius Collurio, Z. 
0 » rufus, Z. 
The L. Excubitor only in this family can be announced as 
Trish : its occurrence in a number of instances is on record. 
LL. Collurio is a regular summer visitant to England; LZ. 
rufus but a very rare and occasional one. 
Fam. Muscicapide. 
Ireland. Great Britain. 
Muscicapa grisola, L. 
0 Muscicapa luctuosa, Temm. 
M. grisola is a regular summer visitant to Ireland. 
M. luctuosa is in England considered only as an occasional 
visitant (Selby). 
Fam. Merulide. 
Freland. Great Britain. 
Cinclus aquaticus, Bechst. 
Merula viscivora, Selby. 
© pilaris, Selby. 
4) musica, Selby. 
35 iliaca, Selby. 
» vulgaris, Ray. 
»  torquata, Selby. 
0 
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Merula Whitei, Jard. 
Oriolus Galbula, Z. + 
Cinclus aquaticus, Mer. musica and M. vulgaris are com- 
mon and resident; so likewise is M. viscivora, but not to the 
same extent, although its increase in Ireland of late years has 
