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county of Monaghan. At Lurgan Green, county of Louth, a 

 male bird was procured"^ in the winter of 1832-33 (?). 



The following information was acquired in Dublin, In the 

 winter of 1814, an adult male (of which a beautiful drawing was 

 made by Miss Battersby) was shot near the city. A bird in 

 similar plumage was killed there in December 1828, and, at the 

 end of the following month, another old male and two females, 

 which I saw, were procured about the river Shannon, and sent to 

 the metropolis to be preserved. In the winter of 1829-30, two 

 smews were shot at Dalkey, Dublin Bay. Mr. W. S. Wall, bird- 

 preserver, told me of his having received one of these birds on the 

 14th December, 1835, and that the smew is brought to the 

 market of the metropolis every winter ; Mr. Gleimon, also, who, 

 for many years, has followed the business of taxidermist there, 

 informed me that he received about five or six smews to set up 

 every winter, as many as are sent to him of the shoveller {Anas 

 clypeatd), and hence he believes these two species occur in about 

 equal numbers. Mr. Dombrain reported the following to me from 

 Dublin: — " January 1837, a smew in the market; January 20, 

 1838, four in the market, three males and one female; middle of 

 February, same year, obtained a young male -" at a later period of 

 the season he remarked that, altliough smews were plentiful that 

 winter in Dublin market, he had not seen a Mergus serrator there. 

 In the winter of 1837-8 Mr. Wall purchased fourteen smews, 

 and saw several more ; three wliich he preserved were adult males. 

 On the 23rd of December, 1844, an old female bird was ob- 

 tained; in December 1846, a female and j^oung male were on 

 sale together; and, one day in December 1847, five appeared, 

 three of which were old males : a very fine bird in this plumage 

 was brought there in March 1849. At the end of this year I was 

 informed in Dublin by two persons (neither of whom has been 

 previously alluded to in connection with the sj)ecies), that a few 

 smews are brought from inland localities to the market of the 

 metropolis every winter. 



In the collection of Mr. T. W. Warren there is a sinew which 

 * Mr. H. H. Dorabraiu. 



