A List of Irish Birds. 589 



Fringilla montifrmgilla (Linn.) Brambling. 



Irregular winter visitor, chiefly occurring in the North and middle 

 of Ireland, and in hard weather. Several were taken in Water- 

 ford, 1887-8 (Mr. R, J. Ussher}; also in Wexford in 1886. 

 (Zoologist, 1889, p. 144.) 



'Passer montanus (Linn.) Tree Sparrow. 



Very rare, and hitherto found chiefly near Dublin, but apparently 

 increasing of late years. Has occurred about Baldoyle, Sandy- 

 mount, and Dalkey. Some nestlings, obtained by Mr. E. 

 Williams from near Howth, are in the Museum. The first 

 Irish specimen was exhibited in May, 1852, to the Dublin Nat. 

 Hist. Society by Mr. R. J. Montgomery. A pair were found, 

 as if breeding, on Arranmore Island, county Donegal, by Mr. 

 H. M. Wallis, in May, 1886. (Zoologist, 1886, p. 489.) 



'Passer domesticus (Linn.) House Sparrow. 



Resident and common. Sometimes taken at Light-houses. 



Coccothraustes vulgaris (Pall.) Hawfinch. 



Rare and irregular winter visitor. It has frequently occurred in 

 the Phoenix Park, Dublin. 



*Coccothraustes chloris (Linn.) Greenfinch. 

 Resident and common. 



Serinus hortulanus (Koch). Serin. 



Has once occurred. Near Dublin, 2nd January, 1893 (Zoologist, 



1893, p. 108.) 



*Carduelis elegans (Steph.) Goldfinch. 



Resident, but local. Numerous in some parts of the South of 

 Ireland. 



*Carduelis spinus (Linn.) Siskin. 



Occurs principally as a winter visitor, but the bird breeds freely in 

 some parts of Wicklow and, locally, in ten or twelve counties 

 from Wexford and Waterford to Donegal and Antrim. 



Linota linaria (Linn.) Mealy Redpoll. 



Extremely rare winter visitor. One shot at Levitstown, Kildare, 

 Feb. 9, 1876. (Newton's Yarrell, ii., p. 137.) A second on 

 Tearaght Rock, 20th September, 1890. (Zoologist, 1891, p. 

 1 86.) Two shot in Achill, February, 1893 (Zoologist, 



1894, p. 152.) 



*Linota rufescens (Vieill). Lesser Redpoll. 



Breeds in many districts numerously, but is better known as a 

 winter visitor, often in company with the Siskin. 



*Linota cannabina (Linn.) Linnet. 



Resident and common. Collects in large flocks in winter. 



