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A LIST OF IRISH BIRDS 



SHOWING 



THE SPECIES CONTAINED 



IN THE 



SCIENCE AND ART MUSEUM, DUBLIN. 



REPRINTED (BY SPECIAL PERMISSION) WITH THE AUTHOR'S LATEST ADDITIONS 

 AND CORRECTIONS. 



PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. 



THE previous edition of this list was the first of an official series of 

 Catalogues of the Natural History Collections in the Science and 

 Art Museum, now in course of preparation. 



Hitherto the only published accounts of specimens contained in 

 this department of the Museum have appeared in the Transactions 

 or Proceedings of Learned Societies. Among such accounts, papers 

 by the late Drs. Leith Adams and Carte on the Fossil Mammals of 

 Ireland, Mr. W. F. Kirby's Catalogue of the Lefiidoptera in the 

 Museum, and Mr. Lydekker's Catalogue of the Vertebrate Fossils 

 from the Sivaliks of India, are the most noteworthy. 



It is hoped that the publication of these Catalogues will prove 

 mutually beneficial to the public and to the Museum. The present 

 edition of the List of Birds has been carefully revised by Mr. A. G. 

 More, late Curator of the Museum, who is admitted to be the most 

 competent authority on the subject. 



A new feature in the Museum, since the first edition was published, 

 will be found in the groups in glass cases, placed on the floor of the 

 upper room, illustrating the life-history of different species of Irish 

 birds. 



V. BALL, 

 Director, Science and Art Museum. 



LEINSTER HOUSE, DUBLIN, December, 1889. 



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