IRELAND. 



will, in very severe weather, carry away barley and 

 oat straws from the sides of ricks. 



How the wheatear and whin- chat support 

 themselves in winter, cannot be so easily ascer- 

 tained, since they spend their time on wild heaths 

 and warrens ; the former especially, where there 

 are stone quarries : most probable it is, that their 

 maintenance arises from the aurelise of the lepi- 

 doptera or do, which furnish them with a plentiful 

 table in the wilderness. 



XLII. 



SOME future faunist, a man of 

 hope, extend his visits to the kingdom of JrelancN ; 

 a new field, and a country little knowtT to *me 

 naturalist. He will not, it is to be wished, un- 

 dertake that tour unaccompanied by a botanist, 

 because the mountains have scarcely been suffi- 

 ciently examined ; and the southerly counties 

 of so mild an island may possibly afford some 

 plants little to be expected within the British 

 dominions. A person of a thinking turn of mind, 

 will draw many just remarks from the modern 

 improvements of that country, both in arts and 

 agriculture, where premiums obtained long before 

 they were heard of with us. The manners of 



1 Ireland even still remains comparatively unexplored, 

 except in its botanical productions. The scolopax sabini, 

 a new species of snipe, was, I may say, accidentally dis- 

 covered there about three years since, of which specimens 

 have been subsequently got, confirming the identity of the 

 species ; and we have every reason to expect some novelties, 

 particularly in ichthyology and entomology. Ledum palustre 

 and papaver nudicale, are among the late botanical discoveries. 

 W. J. 



