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are more numerous than might be supposed from published records. 

 I have collected all I could come across, either from my own 

 researches, from those of R. J. Montgomery, Esq., jun., of Ballina, 

 kindly communicated to me by that gentleman and from Thomp- 

 son's * Fauna of Ireland,' and have little doubt that they do not repre- 

 sent a tithe of the instances in vi'hich this has occurred. We may 

 divide them into — 1st, regular British summer migrants, unknown as 

 such in Ireland, though one or two have occurred during this season 

 here ; 2nd, Irish summer migrants ; and 3rd, European summer 

 migrants, only irregular visitants to the Britannic area. 



Isl. British summer migrants : — 



Reed Wren {Sylvia arundinacea). Dublin, December, 1843. 



Redstart {Sylvia phoenicurus). Dublin, 1828 and 1830; Queen's 

 Co., 1847 ; Belfast. 



Blackcap {Sylvia atricapilla). Belfast, 1834; Dublin, 1833, 

 1843, 1846, 1847. This bird occurred in Phcenix Park in the sum- 

 mer of 1844, and has bred in the county of Dublin and elsewhere 

 many times; Tipperary, 1834; Waterford, 1830, 1834 and 1858; 

 Galway, 1842; Cork, 1839. This species is recorded as having 

 occurred in England several times in winter. 



Stone Curlew {(Edicnemus crepitans). Dublin, 1829 and J 849; 

 Waterford, 1840; Kerry, August, 1842; Wexford, 1844. 



Dotterell {Charadrius morinellus), breeds in Ireland rarely. Down, 

 1834 ; Tipperary, 1853. 



Spotted Crake {Gallinula porzana). Occasional in summer. Bel- 

 fast, 1835, 1847 and 1848 ; Donegal and Down, 1828 and 1848 ; 

 Dublin, 1835; Wicklow, 1835; Queen's Co., 1834; Kerry, 1845 

 and 1846 ; Clare, 1832 ; Waterford, 1842 and 1843. 



Ruff {Machetes pugnaa:) . Nearly regularly every winter. Antrim; 

 Donegal, 1837 and 1838 ; occasionally in Dublin ; Wicklow, 1853 ; 

 Kildare, 1838 and 1840 ; Tipperary, 1848. 



2nd. Irish summer migrants : — 



Ring Ouzel {Turdus iorquatus). Dublin, 1842 or 1843, 1847 and 

 1848. 



Whinchat {Sylvia ruhetr a). Dublin, 1847, 1848, 1850 and 1859. 



Sedge Warbler {Sylvia Phragmites) . Dublin, 1842. 



Whitethroat {Sylvia cinerea). Dublin, 1843. 



Q\{\ffchdiff {Sylvia rufa). Louth, 1849; Castle Warren, Co. Cork, 

 November, 1850 to February, 1851. 



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