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lias built in the neigtbourhood at places where it had never appeared 

 before. It came in the same year for the purpose of building, to Car- 

 rick, in the county of Armagh, and to different country seats about 

 Dublin, where it was before unknown, and has been gradually extend- 

 ing its boundaries since. 



Greater Spotted Woodpecker, vol. i. p. 342, 



Is noticed there, lastly, as visiting Ireland in 1848. It has appeared 

 in the two succeeding years. On the 18th of February, 1849, one was 

 seen at Wolfhill, near Belfast. It first attracted attention by a tapping 

 sound heard at about twenty yards' distance from a house, when the 

 shutters of the windows were closed. The bird was seen very near on 

 that occasion, and twice or thrice afterwards within ten days, being 

 always engaged at the time pecking into the decayed portions of poplars. 

 Mr. Glennou informed me, in May 1849, that one (displaying the crimson 

 plumage on the under tail-coverts) was sent to him at the end of April 

 that year, from near Carrick on Suir, and that it was the fifth fresh bird 

 he had known to be killed in the winter of 1848-49. Early in No- 

 vember 1849, one was reported to him as seen at Castle Eea, Killala. 

 On the 6th of January, 1850, a fine male bird was captured at night 

 in the aperture of a tree, at Malahide (county Dublin), and brought 

 alive to Mr. R. Ball on the following morning. It was placed in a 

 wire rat-trap, from which its efforts to escape during the day were in- 

 cessant, and by constantly striking at the wires it broke several of them. 

 On the 19th of this month, one of these woodpeckers was stated to 

 have been obtained at Tramore (county Waterford). 



Green Woodpecker, vol. i. p. 343. 



A bird of this species, disabled by the blow of a stone when ascending 

 the trunk cf a tree at Kilshrewley, near Granard, county Longford, was 

 captured by the gamekeeper in presence of Dr. H. Edgeworth and Dr. 

 Gordon (Hume-street, Dublin). It was kept alive for two days, in- 

 tending to be brought by the latter gentleman im Dublin, but, having 

 then died, was thought no more of and lost as a specimen. (Mr. R. J. 

 Montgomery.) 



Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, vol. i. pp. 343, 344. 

 January 1851. Mr. Glennon, of Dublin, states that in the course 

 of many years he has preserved at least six or seven of these birds, 



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