112 strigim;. 



of insect food ; the remains of earwigs, Carabi, and Staphylinu 

 It was ascertained that this bird had first been taken by a bird- 

 catcher, between Kilrea and Garvagh (county of Londonderry) 

 in a trap-cage set for goldfinches. Being kept for some days in 

 a cage with a canary-finch, it did not molest this bird, though 

 refusing all food that was offered. It escaped from the cage, and 

 was afterwards shot in the garden of Dr. Lane, at Newtown- 

 limavady. The plumage being smeared with bird-lime sufficed 

 for its identification. 



Further, noting the localities from north to south, one of these 

 birds was killed at Mullaghmore, county of Sligo, about the year 

 1831 or 1832;* another preserved at Knockdrin Castle, West- 

 meath, the seat of Sir Richard Levinge, bart., was obtained there 

 previous to 1834. In the year 1822 or 1823, one was procured on 

 Shankhill mountain, county of Dublin, and in the Phoenix Park, 

 adjacent to the city, another was shot in 1831 (?). In the Queen' s- 

 county, one was killed on the 18th of December, 1847.t The 

 species is said to have been met with in the counties of Tipperary 

 and Waterford ; a specimen was procured near Cork in 1824 ; % a 

 second, as noticed in the Pauna of Cork (Introduction, p. iv.), 

 was shot near Carrigalane, about ten miles to the south of the 

 city, at the end of October, 1844, and a third was obtained in the 

 same quarter, early in August, 1845. 



The ash-coloured shrike is only an occasional visitant to Eng- 

 land and Scotland, having been met with in those countries at 

 uncertain periods, as above noticed with respect to Ireland. It 

 has never been known to breed in Great Britain, but is stated to 

 do so, and remain during the year in Prance. 



The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio), a regular summer 

 visitant to England; and the Wood chat (L. rufiis), a very rare one, 

 to that country, cannot at present be included in the Irish catalogue ; 

 nor is either species enumerated in that of Scotland by Sir W. Jardiue 



* Mr. H. H. Dombrain. f Mr. Robt. J. Montgomery. 



\ The same noticed in Cork Fauna, p. 5, although the year appears different there. 



