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of Down, and sent to Mr. John Montgomery of Belfast, who 

 added it to his collection : a male bird was soon afterwards seen 

 about the same place.* Dr. Burkitt of Waterford mentions 

 a golden oriole as having been shot at Ballinamona, two miles 

 from that city, in 1824 or 1825. I have been credibly in- 

 formed that one was procured near Arklow, county of Wicklow, 

 in the summer of 1827 (?). In a letter from Dr. Robert Graves 

 of Dublin to a mutual friend in Belfast, dated November, 1830, it 

 is mentioned, that a male golden oriole was shot in the preceding 

 summer in a valley above owe of the bays of Kerry. In January 

 1838, I was informed of one having been shot near Gorey, county 

 of Wexford, about a year before that time — probably in the sum- 

 mer of 1837 ; as in that year a male bird, accompanied by a 

 female which escaped, was shot on a cherry tree in a garden at 

 Ballintore near Ferns :f it has not been positively stated whether 

 more than the same individual be included in these two records. 

 In Dr. Burkitt' s collection there is a male bird which was pro- 

 cured in June, 1838, near Woodstown, county of "Waterford. In 

 the same year (?) one was for some time a visitant at Cahirmore, 

 near Roxborough, co. Cork. J 



Mr. Yarrell mentions two individuals as obtained in England in 

 the month of April, 1824, in which year one or two were procured 

 in Ireland. The other years of their occurrence in England men- 

 tioned by this author — 1811, 1829, 1833 — are different from 

 those in which they were met with in Ireland. The species is 

 about equally rare in England and in this island. In Scotland, — 

 according to Macgillivray, B. B. vol. ii. p. 76. (1839), — there is 

 no authentic record of its occurrence. The birds mentioned by 

 Mr. Selby as in the Museum of the University, Edinburgh, and 

 said to have been killed on the Pentland Hills, are known to Mr. 

 Macgillivray to have been brought from France. 



In the summer and autumn of 1826, I met with the golden 

 oriole near Rotterdam, in Holland ; in the finely wooded valley 



* These are the individuals alluded to by Mr. Templeton in Charlesworth's Maga- 

 zine of Natural History, vol. i. p. 405. 



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