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of Toomavara, in the county of Tipperary, is noted by the 

 Rev. T. Knox, to be about the 7th of November ; in summer it is 

 also met with there in pairs and limited numbers, as well as about 

 Killaloe, his former residence. 



Mr. Macgillivray remarks that he has not met with this bird 

 in the northern division of Scotland (B. B. vol. ii. p. 121), but 

 as many as thirty together were commonly seen by my friend 

 Richard Langtry, about Aberarder — sixteen miles southward 

 of the town of Inverness — in the autumn of 1838. They at 

 first frequented the heath (adjacent to a wood), as he supposed 

 for the purpose of feeding on the berries of the trailing Arbutus 

 or bear-berry [Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), and afterwards destroyed 

 the cherries in the garden, several at a time being engaged 

 picking the fruit from a single tree. Over the southern portion 

 of Scotland, the missel thrush is remarked by Sir William 

 Jardine to be "generally distributed." It has, as in Ireland, 

 increased much of late years. When on a visit in August, 1839, 

 to a most observant sportsman, near Ballantrae, in Ayrshire, he 

 remarked that this bird was quite unknown there until the few 

 preceding years, within which time two of its nests were built near 

 the village, and large flocks were seen at Auchairne ; in the glens 

 about which place there are extensive young plantations. On the 

 2nd of September, I remarked a flock of a dozen at Glen-tig, in 

 the same district. In the summer of 1826, I met with this 

 species in Switzerland, but not so commonly as in its favourite 

 haunts in Ireland. 



WHITE'S THRUSH. 



Turdus W/iitei, Eyton. 



Has once occurred in Ireland, 



As noticed by Mr. G. J. Allman (now Professor of Botany in 

 Trinity College, Dublin,) in the 11th vol. of the Annals of Natural 

 History, p. 78. The communication is dated Dec, 15th, 1842, 

 and states that the writer is in possession of a specimen of this very 

 rare bird, obtained about ten days previously in the neighbour- 



