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of Toomavara, in the county of Tipperary, is noted by the 
Rev. T. Knox, to be about the 7th of November; in summer it is 
also met with there in pairs and limited numbers, as well as about 
Killaloe, his former residence. 
Mr. Macgillivray remarks that he has not met with this bird 
in the northern division of Scotland (B. B. vol. ii. p. 121), but 
as many as thirty together were commonly seen by my friend 
Richard Langtry, about Aberarder — sixteen miles southward 
of the town of Inverness — in the autumn of 1838. They at 
first frequented the heath (adjacent to a wood), as he supposed 
for the purpose of feeding on the berries of the trailing Arbutus 
or bear-berry ( Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), and afterwards destroyed 
the cherries in the garden, several at a time being engaged 
picking the fruit from a single tree. Over the southern portion 
of Scotland, the missel thrush is remarked by Sir William 
J ardine to be “ generally distributed.” It has, as in Ireland, 
increased much of late years. When on a visit in August, 1839, 
to a most observant sportsman, near Ballantrae, in Ayrshire, he 
remarked that this bird was quite unknown there until the few 
preceding years, within which time two of its nests were built near 
the village, and large flocks were seen at Auchairne ; in the glens 
about which place there are extensive young plantations. On the 
2nd of September, I remarked a flock of a dozen at Glen-tig, in 
the same district. In the summer of 1826, I met with this 
species in Switzerland, but not so commonly as in its favourite 
haunts in Ireland. 
WHITE'S THRUSH. 
Turclus Whitei, Eyton. 
Has once occurred in Ireland, 
As noticed by Mr. G. J. Allman (now Professor of Botany in 
Trinity College, Dublin,) in the 11th vol. of the Annals of Natural 
History, p. 78. The communication is dated Dec., 15th, 1842, 
and states that the writer is in possession of a specimen of this very 
rare bird, obtained about ten days previously in the neighbour- 
