170 Contributions to the 



Notes to Table, p. 169. 



I, 2, 3. Magazine of Zoology and Botany. Vol. i. p. 267. 



4, 5. Calculation from the Prospectus of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 

 1836. 



6. Flora Metropolitan a, or Botanical Rambles within 30 miles of London. By 

 Daniel Cooper. 1836. 



7. Flora Cantabrigiensis. By Richard Relham. A. M. 3d edit. Cantab. 

 1820. 



8. Flora of Berwick upon Tweed. By G. Johnston, M. D. Edinburgh, 1829. 



9. Flora Woodfordiensis — A Catalogue of Plants growing at Woodford, Es- 

 sex. By Richard Warner, London, 1771. 



10. Flora of Oxfordshire and contiguous counties. By Richard Walker. Ox- 

 ford, 1833. 



II. Flora Oxoniensis. By John Sibthorp, M. D. Oxonii, 1794. 



12. Flora Devoniensis. By Rev. J. P. Jones, and J. F. Kingston. London, 

 1829. 



13. Flora Glottiana A Catalogue of the Indigenous Plants on the banks of 



the river Clyde, and in the neighbourhood of the city of Glasgow. By Thomas 

 Hopkirk. Glasgow, 1813. 



14. Flora Bedfordiensis, comprehending such plants as grow wild in the county 

 of Bedford. By Charles Abbott, M. A. Bedford, 1798. 



15. A Catalogue of the Plants of Berwick upon Tweed. By John V. Thomp- 

 son, Surgeon. London, 1807. 



16. Flora of Anglesey, in Welsh Botanology. By Hugh Davies. London, 

 1813. 



17. Flora of Northumberland and Durham, in the Botanist's Guide through 

 those counties. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1805. 



18. Flora of the Snowdonian Mountains (rare plants only.) By the Rev. 

 W. Bingley in 1798-1801. (Appendix to Jones's Illustrations of the Natural 

 Scenery of the Snowdonian Mountains.) London, 1829. 



VIII. — Contributions to the Natural History of Ireland. By Wil- 

 liam Thompson, Esq. Vice-President of the Belfast Natural His- 

 tory Society. (Continued from p. 57.) 



No. 3. — On the Birds of the Order Raptor es. 



Goshawk — Astur palumbarius, Bechst. — " I have seen a young 

 one got at the rocks of Magilligan (Londonderry.") — MS. late Mr 

 Templeton, where it is also stated under the head of Gentil Falcon. 

 " On 25th July 1809, I saw at Carrickfergus a stuffed specimen that 

 had been shot at the Gobbins, (Antrim.") 



I have never seen an Irish specimen of this bird. The term gos- 

 hawk or gooses-hawk is commonly applied in the country to any of 



* In reference to its comparatively superior size. 



