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of these birds was shot about thirty years ago, and the other, con- 

 siderably before that time, when severe frost and snow prevailed. 

 About the year 1820, one was killed at Castle Martyr, county of 

 Cork.* " In the winter of 1822-23, a specimen of the Bomby- 

 citta Bohemica, Briss., was found dead in the woods of Burton 

 Hall, in the county of Carlow." Zool. Journ., vol. i. p.* 590. 

 This note was contributed by Mr. Yigors, who informed me in 

 November, 1839, that since the winter of 1822-3, chatterers had 

 been obtained in three different years on the mountains, between 

 the counties of Carlow and Wexford. A specimen was pro- 

 cured in the Castlereagh hills, county of Down, about the 

 winter of 1825-26. Dr. J. D. Marshall has noticed a male bird 

 which was shot in the neighbourhood of Dublin, in January, 

 1829 ;t and in this, or the following winter, another was killed at 

 Ardtane, in that quarter. In the Belfast News-letter of Dec. 20, 

 1831,f the following paragraph appeared: — "In the early part of 

 last month a beautiful specimen of the Bohemian wax-wing (Bom- 

 by cilia Bohemica, Briss.), was shot in Newtownlimavady. It was 

 perched upon a rowan tree in a garden, and seemed busily em- 

 ployed in pickiDg off the berries ; many of them were found in 

 its craw when it was opened. It is preserved in the collection of 

 Dr. Tyler of Newtownlimavady/' On Feb. the 6th, 1835, an 

 extremely beautiful individual of this species, was shot in a 

 garden at Ballymacarrett, in the suburbs of Belfast, and on the 

 following day, another was seen at the same place. The former, 

 which came under my inspection, proved on dissection to be a 

 female; its stomach, which I did not examine until the 10th, 

 four days after death, was entirely filled with the haws of the 

 white-thorn (Crataegus Oxyacantha) , which exhaled an odour as 

 fresh, as if just plucked from the tree. Each wing exhibited six 

 plumelets, with their scarlet wax-like adornments ; some authors 

 have described the female as wanting these altogether, and the 

 greatest number I have seen attributed to her, are four or five. 

 (Tcmm.) In this or the following winter, a specimen was ob- 



* Mr. R. Ball. f Mag. N. H. ii. 394. 

 % Two were killed in this month in the north of England. Phil. Mag., 

 1832, p. 84. 



