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near Ballyheigue Bay, loth October, 1873," and which, rather to my 

 surprise, proved to be an undoubted example of Porphyrio smaragnotus. 

 Lord Ventry further assures me that his bird is identical with the 

 " Martinico Gallinule " preserved at Chute Hall, so that in all proba- 

 bility we must now conclude that the latter also is P. smaragnotus, and 

 that Lord Ventry's specimen is a second example of the same species, 

 which, of the two Porphyrios, might have been thought the less likely 

 to occur in Ireland. Mr. Neligan and Lord Ventry very kindly tried to 

 obtain for me the loan of the original specimen, but this was not found 

 possible, as the bird is locked up in a glass-case, and the owner was 

 absent from home, so that I could not examine it myself; but it may be 

 added that in Mr. Chute's description, as quoted by Thompson, the 

 bird is described as having the back and shoulders bottle-green, and 

 that Thompson found Mr. Chute's measurements to agree with those of 

 Porphyrio hyacinthinus (creruleus) which is a much larger bird than 

 lonornis martinica. 



PORPHYRIO SMARAGNOTUS AND P. CCERULEUS IN 

 IRELAND. 



[ZOOLOGIST, January ', 1890.] 



In addition to the two examples of Porphyrio smaragnotus above 

 mentioned under my note on the Irish Martinico Gallinule, and both of 

 which were obtained in Kerry, Mr. J. H. Gurney informs me that there 

 is an Irish specimen of P. cceruleus, but unfortunately without date or 

 locality, in the collection of Mr. John Marshall, of Taunton. 



BARRED WARBLER IN IRELAND. 



[ZOOLOGIST, August, 1890.] 



On his return from Belmullet, a few weeks ago, my friend Mr. R. J. 

 Ussher sent me, for determination, a warbler, which turns out to be a 

 female Barred Warbler, Sylvia nisoria, now to be for the first time 

 recorded as an Irish Bird ; and I am glad to say that Professor Newton, 

 who has very kindly examined the specimen, confirms my identification. 

 Mr. Ussher informs me that the present example was obtained, by the 

 venerable ornithologist, Dr. Robert Burkitt, at Belmullet, in the remote 

 north-west of Mayo, on the 24th September, 1884, about the same date 

 when several others were captured in England. To Dr. Burkitt Irish 

 ornithology is already indebted for the record of the Great Auk, the 

 Gold-vented Thrush, and the Spotted Eagle Owl, all of which he 

 obtained in the vicinity of his former residence at Waterford ; and it is 

 interesting to find one who commenced collecting birds in 1839, and is 

 now eighty-four years of age, adding one more rarity, Sylvia nisoria, to 

 the Irish avifauna. 



