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visitant to Ireland, should, in 1744, have been noted as common 
in the localities above mentioned.* 
The Crossbill is noticed (p. 228) as a winter visitant. ‘‘ They 
are not natives of this county; yet many of them were seen at 
Waringstown in the winter of 1707, of which Mr. Samuel 
Waring gives an account to Dr. Molyneux by letter that year, 
an extract of which is among Dr. Gilbert’s collections in the 
College Library.” 
The Sheldrake is referred to (p. 230) as a resident, breeding 
in rabbit-burrows on the shores of this county, particularly about 
Killileagh, and the south of the barony of Lecale. 
Great numbers of Wild Swans, it is said (p. 233), used to 
breed on the islands of Strangford Lough.t 
The account which is given of the fishes, both marine and 
fresh-water, too long to be quoted here, deserves attention, 
especially the remarks on the Lake Trout and Pollan. Of the 
latter fish the author, after describing it, remarks :—‘‘ This fish 
was for a time supposed to be a peculiar inhabitant of Lough 
Neagh, but time has corrected that error, and it is now known 
that Lough Earn, in the Co. Fermanagh, has the same sort of 
fish, though not in so great plenty.” 
Chapter xix. (pp. 241—250) treats “ of the Herring Fishery 
of this county in particular; and something in general of the 
decay of the Herring Fishery on all the coasts of Ireland; with 
some hints concerning the recovery and improvement of it.” 
In Smith’s ‘History of Waterford’ (1746) we find some 
testimony to the decadence of certain species which were at one 
time numerous in Ireland. Thus of the Red-deer it is stated 
(p. 843) :—‘‘ In the mountains of Knockmeledown we have some 
remains of the Red-deer, but so few that it is to be feared the 
species will in a few years be extinct, especially if a little more 
care be not taken of them.” 
* It was reported also, in 1750, as oceurring in the County of Cork in 
terms sufficiently clear. Dr. Smith, in his History of that county, writes 
(p. 345), ‘* Zidicnemus, Stone Curlew : the feathers and feet resemble those 
of a Bustard, and its cry is something like that of a Green Plover (C. 
pluvialis). We have it on our shores.” 
+ The names of these islands, with their respective areas, are given in a 
footnote, p. 153, 
