BIRDS OF IRELAND. 



Order, RASORES. 

 {Gallinaceous Birds.) 



THE EING-DOVE. 



Wood-quest. Wood-pigeon. Cushat. 



Columba Palumbus, Linn. 

 Is common throughout the wooded districts of the 

 island. 



Mr. Watehton is rather disposed to believe that there is an 

 annual increase, by migration, to the number of native birds in his 

 part of Yorkshire; Mr. Selby, who resides in Northumberland, 

 and probably makes the remark in reference to that county, con- 

 siders that there is no such increase. The great numbers that 

 congregate in autumn, and remain together during winter in 

 Ireland, have always been looked upon by me as our indigenous 

 birds only, collected together in their choicest haunts, however 

 widely they may have been separated during the breeding-seasqn. 



Belvoir Park, near Belfast, with its fine and extensive woods, is 

 quite a preserve for these birds, where throughout the autumn 



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