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folding plates are given, on which are figured (1) the Ringed 
Plover and Snow Bunting, (2) the Whitethroat, (3) the Widgeon 
and Kasterling, (4) the Little Grebe. 
_ From the description given, the Easterling of this author is 
apparently the Gadwall, and if so, it is remarkable that this bird 
* should be found so far to the westward as the County of Dublin. 
Thompson, who considers it a rare species in Ireland, does not 
notice this passage. 
The account which follows of the Fishes is equally method- 
ical, if not quite so accurate, but it appears to be derived ina 
ereat measure from the Histories of Down, Cork, Kerry, and 
Waterford, already noticed. 
In the Appendix to a ‘ Statistical Survey of the County of 
Down,’ by the Rev. John Dubourdieu, 8vo, Dublin, 1802, will be 
found (p. 812) ‘‘ Some Notice respecting the Natural History, 
ancient as well as modern, of this County.” It extends, how- 
ever, to only half-a-dozen pages, and, with the exception of some 
remarks on the fossil horn of the Great Ivish-deer, appears to 
have been chiefly compiled from Harris’s ‘ History of Down,’ 
before noticed. 
‘A Statistical Survey of the Co. Antrim,’ by the same author 
(Dubourdieu), published in two parts, 8vo, Dublin, 1812, contains, 
in the first part, a section (pp. 1183—126) on the Fishes of Lough 
Neagh, including the first definite notice of a charr-like fish in 
Ireland. ‘This fish, there called the Whiting, is identified as 
Salmo alpinus, but as, in the opinion of Dr. Gunther, the 
description does not give any specific characters, we are left in 
doubt as to the correctness of the determination. It is probable 
that the Whiting of Lough Neagh is now extinct.* 
Another section (pp. 126—128), relates to ‘“‘the Birds 
which either live about Lough Neagh, or frequent it in their 
passage.”’ 
The ‘“ Grosbeak (Lozia),” therein mentioned as being “ like a 
green Linnet but larger,” and “often resorting to the wooded 
_farms in its neighbourhood in winter,” is most likely not the 
Hawfinch, but the Crossbill. ‘‘The Jay,” it is said, ‘‘ was much 
more frequent before the woods at Portmore were cut; it is still, 
however, to be met with about Shane’s Castle, and other woods 
* Of. Giinther, ‘On British Charrs,’ P. Z.8., 1862, p. 42. 
