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avifauna, and though I killed some dozens of 

 snowy-white-bellied Willow Wrens, they were 

 all the common Sylvia trochilus. That the bird 

 is Irish I am sure, for I have heard it. Should 

 an Irish ornithologist see this, will he try for 

 it, if he should live in a wooded district, such as 

 the counties Wicklow and Wexford ? I am 

 sure it is neglected for want of a certain dis- 

 tinction." Since this note was published, the 

 Wood Wren has actually been obtained in Ire- 

 land, a specimen having been shot in the county 

 of Fermanagh by Sir Victor Brooke, and pre- 

 served by him in June, 1870. Another was 

 obtained the same year at Glen Druid in the 

 county of Dublin, as reported by Mr. Blake- 

 Knox. Both Sir William Jardine and Macgil- 

 livray have referred to the Wood Warbler being 

 found northward to the middle districts of Scot- 

 land, a circumstance which appears to have been 

 overlooked by Mr. Yarrell, since he says (vol. i. 

 p. 349, 3rd edit.), " I am not aware of any 

 record of its appearance in Scotland." This 

 statement, however, has been rectified in the 



