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siderable numbers ; — flying out of the rowan-trees in flocks. The 

 remark of Sir Wm. Jar dine that this species " is no where abun- 

 dant, and is generally seen in pairs about some solitary glen or 

 ravine, or by some shelving cliff," (B. B. vol. ii. p. 99.) would 

 appear to be only referable o in Scotland to certain districts, or to 

 the breeding season. 



M. Duval- Jouve informs us that : — " The ring-ouzel is always 

 seen (in Provence) early in the spring. It has been observed to- 

 wards the end of February ; on one occasion it was seen as late as 

 the 15th of April. The cold of November brings it back to us 

 regularly. None remain with us during winter, not even on the 

 shores of the Mediterranean, or in the neighbouring islands ; so 

 that among all the birds of this tribe, which are sent from Corsica 

 every winter to Toulon and Marseilles, by thousands, we do not 

 find one ring-ouzel before the end of February ." Zoologist for 

 Oct., 1845, p. 1119. 



THE GOLD-VENTED THRUSH. 



Tardus aurigaster, Vieillot. 



chrysorhaus, Temm. 



Hamatornis, „ Swains. 



Has once been killed in Ireland. 



By the kindness of Dr. Burkitt of Waterford, who possesses a 

 collection of native birds, (or species killed in Ireland,) I exhibited 

 an individual of this African thrush to the Natural History 

 section of the British Association, held at Cork in 1843. It was 

 purchased by that gentleman from a country -lad who brought it 

 into Waterford in January, 1838, with a number of blackbirds 

 (Turdus merula) and snipes, and who believed it to be a hen 

 blackbird : he shot it at Mount Beresford, three miles and a half 

 from Waterford. There can therefore be no doubt of the speci- 

 men having been killed in tins country. It is the only indi- 

 vidual known to have occurred in Europe. Le Vaillant described 



