On the Introduction of the Squirrel into Ireland. 
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TABULAR StTaTEMENT of the Nrcative EvipeNncE—continued. 
County. 
Mayo. 
Mayo, 5 ; 
SLIGO. 
Markree Castle, 
TYRONE. 
Baronscourt, Newtownstewart, 
N.W. of Ireland generally, 
Downy. 
Drumbanagher, 
Tollymore Park, 
ARMAGH. 
Tartaraghan, 
Tanderagee, . 
ANTRIM. 
Carrickfergus, 
WESTMEATH. 
Rathowen, 
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Distribution. 
Mr. Robt. Warren of Ballina never head of or saw 
it in this county. 
Cel. Cooper did not mention it to Mr. R. Warren 
as occurring. 
‘*- No squirrel here.” William Taylor, Keeper to the 
Duke of Abercorn, in lit. 1880. 
“Tf you draw a line on the map of Ireland from 
Clones to Sligo on the one side, and from Clones 
to the mouth of the River Foyle at Derry, on the 
other—in all the area between this line and the 
Atlantic the squirrel is absent so far as I know, 
and I have travelled through most of it.” Mr. 
Thos. Plunkett (Geol. Survey), Enniskillen, in lit. 
1880. 
“lhe squirrel does not exist in this locality.” Mr. 
Maxwell Close, in lit. 1880. 
“None in the neighbourhood.” John Kennedy, 
keeper to the Earl of Roden, in lit. 1880; but see 
positive evidence under Castlewellan. 
No mention by the Rey. G. Robinson in list of 
squirrel localities to Mr. A. G. More, in lit. 1880. 
Never seen or heard of by R. M. B. though often 
there. 
““T never heard of one in this neighbourhood ” Mr. 
M. W. E. Dobbs, Castle Dobbs, in lit. 1880. 
None. Mrs. Battersby. fide Mr. A. G. More. 
The silence of many correspondents regarding the occurrence 
of the squirrel in other districts is strong negative evidence 
which must be added to this table, and the fact of an introduction 
being made is also evidence of the previous non-existence of 
squirrels, as no cne would take the trouble to introduce them 
where they were already in existence. 
Scien. Proc. R.D.S. 
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