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APPENDIX. 



Black-throated Thrush (p, 9). 



In 'The Ibis' for October, 1SS9, Lt.-Col. H. M. Drummond- 

 Hay states that he has traced and identified an example 

 of this species, shot by I\Ir. Robert Gloag after a pro- 

 longed snowstorm, on the banks of the Tay, a little 

 below Perth, in February 1S79. It was then in company 

 with another bird of the same kind, and has been 

 presented to the Museum of the Perthshire Society of 

 Natural Science. 



Ring-Ouzel (p. 15). 



Prof. J. W. H. Trail states that this species breeds — or has 

 bred — among the hills of Mainland or Pomona, in the 

 Orkneys, which I had excepted. The statement that it 

 " is entirely absent from our islands during the winter " 

 {i.e. after Christmas) requires modification, as there is 

 evidence that in some localities the bird has been found 

 all the year round. 



Desert Wheatear (p. 25). 



Since the article on this bird was written, a third British 

 specimen— apparently a young male — was shot near 

 Arbroath on December 28th 18S7, and was exhibited 

 at a meeting of the Zoological Society of London on 

 March 6th 1888, on behalf of Lt.-Col. H. M. Drum- 

 mond-Hay, who published details in 'The Ibis,' 1888, 

 p. 283. 



Redstart (p. 31). 



This species bred and reared its young at Powerscourt, co. 

 Wicklow, in the summer of 1885 ; and since that date 

 it has nested annually in that district. 



Black Redstart (p. t,t,). 



Mr. R. J. Ussher informs me that this bird is not infrequent 

 in winter on the east and south coasts of Ireland, 



