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BRITISH SPECIES UNKNOWN AS IRISH. 



The Birds of the order Rasores, indigenous to Great Britain 

 and not to Ireland, are the 



Stock Dove, Columba cenas, 



Black Grouse, Tetrao tetrix, 

 Ptarmigan, Tetrao lag opus, 



In addition to these are the 

 Passenger Pigeon, Columba migratoria, 



Red-legged Partridge, Perdix rufa, 

 Barbary Partridge, Perdix petrosa, 



Virginian Colin, Partridge or Quail, Ortyx 

 Virginiana, 



J a species confined to the midland and 

 ^eastern counties of England. 



■[ already commented on. 



{ obtained once or twice in Scotland. 



{which may have visited the south of 

 England in a wild state ; but which 

 has been introduced to that country 

 and also to Ireland. 



{included in the British Fauna, from 

 a single specimen obtained in Leices- 

 tershire. 



introduced to England from North 

 America. * Montagu, in the Supple- 

 ment to his Ornithological Diction- 

 ary, published in 1813, mentions 

 that " the late General Gabbit 

 ■j liberated many on his estates in Ire- 

 land, but in two years the breed was 

 lost."* I have known these birds 

 to live for a considerable time in 

 aviaries exposed to the weather, in 

 and about Belfast. 



Andalusian Hemipode, 

 mus, Temm. 



Hemipodius tachydro- 



Ruffed Bustard, Otis Maequeenii, 



Otis houbara, Gmel. ? 



One of these birds was shot at the 

 end of October 1844, and another a 

 few days afterwards in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Chipping Norton, Oxon. 

 This species inhabits the south of 

 Europe and North Africa. 



{One was obtained in Lincolnshire, 

 Oct. 7, 1847. The species is a native 

 of Persia and Western Asia.f 



No species of this Order unknown to Great Britain can be 

 named with certainty as having been obtained in Ireland. 



* Noticed in article on " Grosbeak, white-winged." 

 t Zoologist, 1848, p. 2065 and 2146. 



