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when frightened ran up trees. In 1871 the late Lord Annesley told me 
ee one had been seen in his woods at Castlewellan, twenty miles from 
nere. 
In the Zoologist for May, 1877, page, 223, Mr. J. D. Ogilby 
gives Kerry as a locality for the squirrel, but he has since written 
to me from Texas saying that he cannot remember where his 
authority was obtained. Careful inquiry, and letters from Lord 
Bantry’s, Lord Kenmare’s, and Mr. Herbert’s gamekeepers, do not 
confirm this locality. 
All the positive evidence for the existence of the squirrel in 
Ireland that has come under my notice, has now been gone over 
perhaps with too much detail. The negative evidence is brief, 
and is best understood by looking at the map which I have pre- 
pared, in which the black dots represent the local centres of intro- 
duction, and the general areas from which squirrels are reported 
are marked red. They are absent from the rest of Ireland. 
The conclusions to be drawn from the foregoing evidence would 
seem to be as follows :— 
1st.—That the squirrel spread over the whole of Wicklow, 
northern Wexford, and southern Dublin, from Ashford, county 
Wicklow, where they were introduced by Mr. Synge between 
1815 and 1825. That they may have been introduced also at 
Castle Howard, Wicklow. 
2nd. That it has extended to Maynooth, Straffan, Lyons, and 
that neighbourhood, from Mr. Shackleton’s introduction at Lucan, 
in 1876, and perhaps also from Wicklow. 
3rd. That it has extended over northern Carlow to the borders 
of Wicklow, and westward to Abbeyleix and Portarlington, from 
Colonel Bruen’s introduction at Oak Park, “Some thirty years 
ago.” 
4th. That the Nenagh and Roscrea, and Banagher localities 
may be due to Lord Rosse’s introduction at Parsonstown sixteen 
years ago. 
5th. That all the county Galway localities and those in the 
south of Roscommon had their origin in the introduction at Gar- 
bally, in 1833, by Lord Clancarty. 
6th. That we must attribute the presence of the squirrel in 
Longford, and perhaps at Moate and Clara to the introduction re- 
ferred to by Thompson at Castle Forbes. 
