608 Alexander Goodman More Scientific Papers. 



Ardea purpurea (Linn). Purple Heron. 



Has once occurred; at Carrickmacross, Monaghan, previous to 

 1834. (Thompson}. This specimen, which belonged to the 

 collection of Mr. T. W. Warren, is in the Museum. 



Ardea garzetta (Linn.) Little Egret. 



Extremely rare and accidental visitor. It is recorded as having 

 occurred three times (Thompson], but no Irish specimen is in 

 existence. 



Ardea ralloides (Scopoli). Squacco Heron. 



Extremely rare visitor. Has occurred four or five times in spring 

 or early summer in the South of Ireland. A specimen shot at 

 Youghal, Co. Cork, is in the Museum. t 



Nycticorax griseus (Linn.) Night Heron. 



Very rare and accidental visitor. Has occurred ten or twelve 

 times in Ireland. A specimen obtained in county of Louth is 

 in the Museum. An immature bird was shot at Rathgar 

 quarries, 3ist Docember, 1888 (Zoologist, 1889, p. no). A 

 young bird shot near Belfast, 26th October, 1893 (Zoologist, 

 1893, P- 459)- 



Ardetta minuta (Linn.) Little Bittern. 



Very rare visitor. Has occurred about ten or twelve times in 

 Ireland. A specimen shot at Skerries, Co. Dublin, is in the 

 Museum. Another shot in Wexford, October 2nd, 1887 

 (Zoologist, 1889, p. 145), is, as Dr. Scharff informs me, also 

 in the Museum. 



Botaurus stellaris (Linn.) Bittern. 



Rare and irregular winter visitor, but occurs nearly every year. 

 Recorded as formerly breeding in a few localities, but the nest 

 has not been found for many years past. 



Botaurus lentiginosus (Mont.) American Bittern. 



Native of America. Extremely rare visitor. Has occurred six times 

 in Ireland, viz., in the counties of Armagh, (Thompson), Down, 

 Louth, Tipperary, and Cork, in the months of October and 

 November, usually in November. A specimen shot at Castle- 

 ring, Louth, November, 1868, was presented to the Museum by 

 Lord Clermont.J 



t Two were shot in September, 1895 (Irish Nat., 1896, pp. 56 and 320). 



J Records of two American Bitterns, shot in counties Derry and Kildare at 

 the end of October, 1889 (Zool. 1890, pp. 24 and 26), are not quoted in the 

 interleaved copy; and a record (Dublin Nat. Hist. Soc., iv., p. 49) of a specimen 

 shot in Wexford in December, 1862, although noted on blank page in interleaved 

 copy of the first edition of Mr. More's List, was not mentioned in the second 

 edition. These would make the number of occurrences nine. 



