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siderable numbers ; — flying out of the rowan-trees in flocks. The 
remark of Sir Wm. Jardine that this species “is no where abun- 
dant, and is generally seen in pairs about some solitary glen or 
ravine, or by some shelving cliff/' (B. B. vol. ii. p. 99.) would 
appear to be only referable in Scotland to certain districts, or to 
the breeding season. 
M. Duval- Jouve informs us that “ The ring-ouzel is always 
seen (in Provence) early in the spring. It has been observed to- 
wards the end of Pebruary ; on one occasion it was seen as late as 
the 15th of April. The cold of November brings it back to us 
regularly. None remain with us during winter, not even on the 
shores of the Mediterranean, or in the neighbouring islands ; so 
that among all the birds of this tribe, which are sent from Corsica 
every winter to Toulon and Marseilles, by thousands, we do not 
find one ring-ouzel before the end of Pebruary.” Zoologist for 
Oct., 1845, p. 1119. 
THE GOLD-VENTED THRUSH. 
Turdus aurig aster, Vieillot. 
— — clirysorhaus , Temm. 
Hamatornis , ,, Swains. 
Has once been killed in Ireland. 
By the kindness of Dr. Burkitt of Waterford, who possesses a 
collection of native birds, (or species killed in Ireland,) I exhibited 
an individual of this African thrush to the Natural History 
section of the British Association, held at Cork in 1843. It was 
purchased by that gentleman from a country-lad who brought it 
into Waterford in January, 1838, with a number of blackbirds 
(: Turdus merula) and snipes, and who believed it to be a hen 
blackbird : he shot it at Mount Beresford, three miles and a half 
from Waterford. There can therefore be no doubt of the speci- 
men having been killed in this country. It is the only indi- 
vidual known to have occurred in Europe. Le Vaillant described 
