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21st. of December, 1848, at the Manor House, Baheny, near 

 Dublin. Mr. Templeton noticed it at his own residence, 

 Craninore, on the 17th. of June, 1818, and twice since. One 

 was procured in the garden of the Bishop of Down, near 

 Belfast, on the 1st. of March, 1834: one near Dublin the 

 first week in December, 1833; and one in the Phoenix Park, 

 about the middle of May, 1844. Two in the same locality 

 in December, 1843; one at Donny brook, once so celebrated 

 for its fair, in October, 1846; one at Bathfarnham, also in 

 the same county, in January, 1847; and one at Moore's 

 'Sweet Yale of Avoca,' in the county of Wicklow, on the 

 23rd. of May, 1837. One of a small party of six or seven, 

 probably the family of the year, was procured at Clonmel, on 

 the 27th. of December, 1834; others at Ballibrado, in the 

 county of Tipperary; one near Waterford on the 9th. of 

 October, 1830, and another on the 21st. of August, 1834, at 

 Dunmore, in that county; and one at Dunmore, in Gralway, 

 on the 1st. of November, 1842. 



In Scotland it is sparingly distributed throughout the 

 southern parts. Mr. T. Edwards has heard them sing near 

 Banff, at Mayen and Bothiemary, and in the grounds of 

 Duff House. It is not uncommon in the Valley of the 

 Clyde, especially about Hamilton. They occur also near 

 Paisley, in Benfrewshire, Stevenston, in Ayrshire, and have 

 been met with in Perthshire and Forfarshire. 



In Orkney one was shot in Sanday, in the summer of 

 1846. 



It haunts thick hedges and brakes, woods, groves, and 

 plantations, shrubberries, lanes, orchards, copses, and thickets. 



It migrates hither, in uncertain numbers, the middle of 

 April, or earlier with the season, and leaves again in September. 

 In late seasons it does not arrive till the beginning of May, 

 and has been observed on the other hand on the 9th. of April. 

 One has been killed in Kent, in January, and one seen in 

 Surrey in December; and Mr. Allis says that he has been 

 informed that some have been known to remain throughout 

 the year in Yorkshire. The males do not travel quite 'pari 

 passu' with the females, but arrive some days before them. 

 It appears however to be certain, from the many instances 

 already adduced, that some must stay with us every winter, 

 and especially, it would seem, in Ireland. 



It is a bird of rather shy and timid habits, and at the 

 same time lively and restless in its movements, quickly 



