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Grand Parade, Cork, with the remains of a Gull to show him, which 

 proved on examination to be the wing, leg and foot, and part of the 

 breast of a freshly killed specimen of an adult Ivory Gull (Pagophila 

 ebumea). The man's story was " that as he was walking on the 

 Marina [the embankment that separates the city park from the Eiver 

 Lee] he observed a large hawk on one of the trees that line the 

 Marina, and when passing the hawk dropped something, and the 

 man, going to see what it was, picked up the remains of the Gull, 

 upon which evidently the Falcon was feeding." It was strange that 

 from the hundreds of small Gulls nesting in the park the Falcon 

 picked up this rare Arctic visitor. This is only the second specimen 

 of Ivory Gull obtained in this county ; the first was shot in Bantry 

 Bay by the late Captain Newburgh in the winter of 1852, who pre- 

 sented the specimen to the late Dr. J. E. Harvey for his fine collec- 

 tion of Irish birds now in the possession of Queen's College, Cork. — 

 Bobert Warren (Ardnaree, Monkstown, Co. Cork). 



An Ornithological Primer. — These lines, composed by a famous 

 ornithologist to teach some children the Orders of British Birds, 

 have never before been printed : — 



" Passeres are lark and linnet, 

 Perching birds are mostly in it. 

 Picaria now you must not pooh-pooh 

 Woodpecker the Swift and Hoopoe. 

 Then come Striges : all are Owls, 

 These are Pallas's favourite fowls. 

 Accipitres : now what are they ? 

 Eagles, Kites and Birds of Prey. 

 Steganopodes on sea-crags, 

 Gannets, Cormorants and Shags. 

 Herodiones next include 

 The Spoonbill, Hern, and Bittern brood. 

 With Anseres we hope to meet 

 The Swans and Geese with webbed feet, 

 And all the ducks from Teal to Wigeons. 

 Columbce stands for Doves and Pigeons — 

 Grouse and Partridge are GallincB : 

 Pheasant with his breast so shiny, 

 Gamebirds all and Quail so tiny — 

 Some do Fulicarice, shoot : 

 Crake and Bail and baldhead Coot. 



