APPENDIX. 439 



Glennon, on the 31st, was said to have been sent from Wexford. On 

 the 19th, 22nd, 23rd, and 25th, single individuals were shot in the 

 county of Dublin. Two of these birds had been feeding on haws 

 of the white-thorn ; it was stated of one whose stomach was entirely 

 filled with them, that missel-thrushes attacked, and drove it from a 

 hedge into the middle of a ploughed field ; perhaps on account of its 

 partaking of their food. At the end of January, a flock of redwings 

 were fired at near Euskey (county Koscommon), and among the birds 

 killed were two w^axwiugs ; about the same time two others were killed 

 at Lanesborough, county Longford. 



PIAlWFINCH, vol. 1. p. 259. 



This species has been at least twice procured at Glengarrift" (county 

 Cork); — January 20, 1844, being one of the dates. One of these 

 birds, shot, it was presumed, at Mountstewart, county Down, was sent 

 by the Marquis of Londonderry, on January 31st, 1849, to Belfast, to 

 be preserved ; its stomach was filled with large leguminous seeds, the 

 size of ordinary peas. In February and March 1849, they were unu- 

 sually frequent in the Phoenix Park, Dublin ; several were killed there 

 in the latter month. In the first two weeks of April 1850, a pair A^as 

 seen at Ballibrado, county Tipperary, and the female shot. 



Siskin, vol. i. p. 264. 



This bird seems to be at least an annual visitant to some parts of 

 the island. Prom what Mr. John R. Kinahan heard of it at Annagh 

 (county Tipperary), it would appear to be resident there, where it is 

 called the yellow goldfinch. He saw it in that locality early in June 

 (1849), and was told that its nest is usually built in the wiEow^s which 

 fringe the banks of the Little Brosna. This gentleman mentioned, in 

 March 1849, from his own observation, that Sandymount marsh, near 

 Dublin, had been frequented by a pair of siskins, in spring, autumn, 

 and Avinter, for the preceding three years ; he had not the opportunity 

 of observing them there in summer, but is of opinion that they most 

 probably remain at that season also, from his having remarked a pair 

 in a neighbouring field in June 1848. 



Early in Januaiy 1849, siskins were observed feeding on the alder, 

 in a glen two miles from Castle Warren (county Cork), and were 

 occasionally seen there until the 7th of February, when a flock of 



