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1875 (Zool. 1876, p. 4798). There is a specimen, too, in the 
Belfast Museum, which was shot also in the County of Down, 
and presented by Mr. A. O. D. Taylor, of Belfast, in 1876; and 
a young bird, shot after it had left the nest, was obtained by Mr. 
Darragh for the Belfast Museum. 
In ‘ The Ancient and Present State of the Co. Kerry’ we find 
but a brief chapter (Chapter xiii.) devoted to an account of the 
fauna, for the reasons thus stated in the opening paragraph :— 
‘Having in some former volumes given a detail of the several 
species of fish and fowl that are to be met with in the southern 
parts of this kingdom; as this county is contiguous to those 
already described, it is frequented by almost the same kinds of 
both; therefore to avoid a repetition of what has been already 
treated of at large, I shall refer the reader to Chap. v. and vi. 
of the 4th book of the Natural History of Cork, as also to pages 
259 and 3385 of that of Waterford. All that I shall add here 
will be an account of some peculiar species not observed in the 
above-mentioned counties, with some curious particulars relative 
to their natural history, either new or not touched upon in the 
said tracts.” 
Then follow some brief remarks on the habits of the common 
Seal, the Cuttle, and common Crab, and a reference to the only 
bird which the author considers to be peculiar to the County of 
Kerry, which, from his description, appears to be the Storm 
Petrel, ‘an inhabitant of the Blasquet Islands.” 
Dr. John Rutty’s ‘Essay towards a Natural History of the 
County of Dublin’ (2 vols., 8vo, 1772), may be said to mark a 
new era in the Annals of Irish Zoology by the methodical and 
systematic way in which his observations are recorded. The 
four chapters at the end of the first volume (pp. 263—892) deal 
respectively with the Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, and Insects, 
which at the date of publication were regarded as indigenous 
to the County of Dublin, and contain several passages worth 
noting. 
“The Stag, Hart, or Red-deer is found here, although much 
rarer than the Cervus platyceros, the Buck, or Fallow-deer, whose 
horns are palmated.” 
It would have been desirable to know in what particular parts 
of the County of Dublin the Red-deer was to be found in 
Dr. Rutty’s day, and whether in a wild state or only in parks. 
