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Birds. 



tor}',' and from this I extract the following particulars, which are 

 substantially the same as those I have already published : — 



" Late in the autumn of 1843, Mr, Yarrell favoured me with the in- 

 formation that he had received a letter from Admiral Bowles, written 

 from the south of Ireland, in which this gentleman mentioned having 

 lately seen a living vulture at Castle Martyr, the seat of the Earl of 

 Shannon, and which was said to have been captured in the county of 



The Griffon Vulture ( Viiltur fitlvus, Gmel. S. N.) 



Cork. The attention of Mr. R. Ball being called to the circum- 

 stance, he made enquiry of Lord Shannon, who replied that the bird 

 was purchased by his steward for 2s. 6d. from a peasant, who stated 

 that he caught it on the sea-shore in that neighbourhood. Its 

 plumage was in good order. His Lordship politely offered the bird 

 to Mr. Ball for the collection in the Garden of the Zoological So- 

 ciety, Dublin, but before arrangements were completed for its trans- 

 mission, it died. The specimen was, by the direction of Lord 



