590 Scientific Notices. 



Esq. of Ranelagh, near Dublin. Another of the Pastor roseus, 

 Temm., was killed nearly on the same spot, and in the same year, 

 and is preserved in the cabinet of N. A. Vigors, Esq. In the 

 winter of 1822 — 3, a specimen of the Bombycilla Bohemica, 

 Briss., was found dead in the woods of Burton Hall, in the 

 county of Carlow, and is now in the possession of Robert C. 

 Browne, Esq. of Browne's Hill in that county. We beg leave to 

 add the following information on this subject, which has been 

 extracted from a letter to one of the Conductors of this Journal, 

 from the Rev. Wm. Bulwer, F.L.S. of Rosemount, near Dublin. 

 " A specimen of the Golden Oriole, (Oriolus galbula, Linn.,) 

 was shot in the county of Wexford, in May last, and is preserved 

 in the Museum of the Dublin Society. Three specimens of Tan- 

 1 1 Iftlus igneus, Gmel., were shot in September by two different 

 individuals in the county of Longford : one is in my possession, 

 another in the Dublin Society, and the third was received in too 

 putrid a state to admit of being set up. November, 1824." — It is 

 to be remarked that the coast near Wexford, where three of those 

 birds have been met with, is the south-east point of the island, and 

 one of the spots where these occasional visitors of our islands 

 would most probably first land after their departure from the con- 

 tinent. The writer of this notice is desirous of giving a general 

 account of the Ornithology of Ireland ; and he takes this oppor- 

 tunity of soliciting every information which the friends of the 

 science can afford him on the subject, through the medium of the 



Conductors of this Journal. 



V. 



MYT1LUS CRENATUS, NATURALIZFO IN PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR. 



The following is an extract of a letter on this subject, addressed 

 to one of the Conductors of this Journal, by Mr. C. Willcox ; 

 dated " Dock-yard, Portsmouth, July 15, 1824." 



u On docking H. M. Ship Wellesley at this yard, I discovered 

 on the lead of the knee of the head and gripe, a species of Mytilus, 

 which is unknown to me as a British shell, four pair of which I beg 

 your acceptance of ; they may not be worth notice from their 



