2018 TiiK Zoologist — February, 1870. 



F. caiulicans. Mr. Gmilil reUtiiis the specimen to make a drawing of it. On com- 

 paring the relative sizes of the breast-bone of this and the common kite I was 

 surprised to find that it was very nearly, if not quite, double the bulk. — Edward 

 Heai-le Rodd ; Penzance, Janvary 17, 1870. 



Japanese or While's Thrush in Somerset>,hire. — I have to record the occnrrence of 

 the very rare Tardus Whitei of Yariell at Hestercombe, near Taunton. On Friday, 

 the 7tb of January, I met Mr. Beadon, of Yatton, when out hunting: he told me"his 

 son had shot a bird he did not know, when out shooting a day or two before at 

 Hestercombe, in mistake for a woodcock. Mr. Beadon afterwards kindly sent me the 

 bird, or rather what remained of it (for it had been very much mauled by dogs and 

 beaters), for identification, and with permission to keep it for my C(jlleciion if I could 

 make anything of it, which luckily, with the assistarice of JJ r. Bidgood, the Curator of 

 the Museum at Taunton, 1 have beeu able to do. The bird agreed so closely with 

 Yarrell's description that I think I need add no particular'^, except that the legs and 

 toes (scarcely faded at all when I first saw them) were yellowish Iiro«ii instead nf pile 

 brown; the claws consideralily paler than the legs and toes, but still tinged with 

 yellowish brown. — Cecil Smith; Li/deard House, Taunton. 



Six Additions to a List of the Miijralonj and Wandering Birds of the County of 

 Dublin.*— 



Wood Lark. A very abundant winter visitant: it also breeds in the county. 

 (Accidentally omitted in former list.) 



Melodious Willow Wren. A specimen of ibis fine species has lately been ex- 

 hibited in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society, and bears the inscription, 

 " Dunsiiiea, Co. Dublin. Donor, John G. H^ithhanre, Ksq." 



Reed Wren. Detemher, 18^3. Kinahaii, in the ' Zoologist' (Zool. 6957). 



Tree Sparrow. Dalkey and Baldoyle. Scarcely known to any but the bird- 

 catchers. Many of them have pointed it out in my collection : they menlion it as 

 having a puce-coloured head, a finch. like "twitter," and that it is much siniiller and 

 ilifferently marked from the common sparrow. It is scarce, but they believe it to be 

 resident. 



European Whitewinged Crossbill. Occurred once to myself, as stated in a former 

 number of the ' Zoologist.' 



Longtailed Duck. A scarce winter wanderer. Tliompson records it, and it has 

 passed several times under my own observation. (Accidentally omitted in former 

 list.) 



This makes the number of species of birds, resident, migratory and wandering, of 

 the County of Dublin, two hundred and tweuty four. I shall feel greatly obligid to 

 any person who will confirm any of the rare birds in this list, or add any species I may 

 have omitted. I have hopes of being able to include the woud sandpiper amongst our 

 wandering or perhaps migratory species ; also the wood wren, which, thnu^h I can get 

 no proof of its existence, I am convinced is a regular migrant, and that it is often 

 passed over as the common willow wren. Numbers of rare birds occur in Ireland 

 without any record being made of them other than in the repints of the local societies. 

 Few readers of the 'Zoologist' will believe that both the blue thiush {Tardus cyaueus) 



* Published in the ' Zoologist' for 1866 (S. S. 220, 300). 



