A L ist of Irish Birds. 591 



*Corvns COrone (Linn.) Carrion Crow. 



Extremely rare. A specimen from county Clare is in the Museum. 

 Is recorded as found in the North, East, and West; also in 

 Kilkenny and Tipperary . ( Thompson . ) Young birds evidently 

 reared in the locality were obtained from Mayo by Mr. H.B. 

 Knox in 1889. Mr. B. Kane tells me that a carrion crow once 

 mated with a hooded crow near Rostrevor, when five young 

 were reared, and Mr. G. Esson describes the carrion crow as 

 occasionally visiting the mountains in county Down in August 

 and September. Mr. J. Anderson has found it near Mourne 

 Park in March, and reports that a brace are seen every spring, 

 though the nest has not been found. Also on an estate near 

 Lough Neagh, a pair have come every March, usually in 

 first week, for 25 years, staying a week or fortnight.f 



*Corvns cornix (Linn.) Hooded Crow. Scald Crow. 



Resident from North to South of Ireland. Breeds in every county. 

 Is sometimes called Carrion Crow. 



*Corvus frugilegus (Linn.) Rook. 

 Resident and numerous. 



*CorvTis monedula (Linn.) Jackdaw. 

 Resident and common. 



*Pica rustica (Scop.) Magpie. 



Resident and now common. Was introduced or immigrated from 

 England previous to 1700. A flight of " under a dozen " said 

 to have arrived in the Barony of Forth, Wexford, about 1676. 

 (See Zoologist, 1891, p. 247.) 



*Garrulus glandarius (Linn.) Jay. 



Resident ; but very local, occurring principally in the South and 

 East of Ireland. Its head-quarters are in Kilkenny and Queen' s 

 county, extending to King's county, Kildare, Carlow, Wex- 

 ford, Waterford, and Tipperary. Very rare, and only a 

 straggler in Wicklow (Mr. y. Johnston), and Westmeath (Mr. 

 H. C Levinge). Mr. E. Williams has noticed that the Irish 

 Jay is of a warmer and richer colour than the English bird. 



HlRUNDINIDJE. 



*Hirundo rustica (Linn.) Swallow. 



Regular summer visitor and numerous. 



*Chelidon urbica (Linn.) House-Martin. 



Regular summer visitor, less common than the Swallow. 



tMr. Ussher states in the Irish Naturalist for March, 1897, that the most 

 satisfactory instance of the nesting of the Carrion Crow in Ireland occurred in 

 1864, when Mr. J. R. Hardy obtained eggs and a specimen of the bird in Kerry. 



