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of Down, and sent to Mr. John Montgomery of Belfast, who 
added it to his collection : a male bird was soon afterwards seen 
about the same place.* Dr. Burkitt of Waterford mentions 
a golden oriole as having been shot at Ballinamona, two miles 
from that city, in 1824 or 1825. I have been credibly in- 
formed that one was procured near Arklow, county of Wicklow, 
in the summer of 1827 (?). In a letter from Dr. Kobert Graves 
of Dublin to a mutual friend in Belfast, dated November, 1830, it 
is mentioned, that a male golden oriole was shot in the preceding 
summer in a valley above one of the bays of Kerry. In January 
1838, I was informed of one having been shot near Gorey, county 
of Wexford, about a year before that time — probably in the sum- 
mer of 1837 ; as in that year a male bird, accompanied by a 
female which escaped, was shot on a cherry tree in a garden at 
Ballintore near Eerns :f it has not been positively stated whether 
more than the same individual be included in these two records. 
In Dr. BurkitEs collection there is a male bird which was pro- 
cured in June, 1838, near Woodstown, county of Waterford. In 
the same year (?) one was for some time a visitant at Cahirmore, 
near Koxborough, co. Cork 4 
Mr. Yarrell mentions two individuals as obtained in England in 
the month of April, 1824, in which year one or two were procured 
in Ireland. The other years of their occurrence in England men- 
tioned by this author — 1811, 1829, 1833 — are different from 
those in which they were met with in Ireland. The species is 
about equally rare in England and in this island. In Scotland, — - 
according to Macgillivray, B. B. vol. ii. p. 76. (1839), — there is 
no authentic record of its occurrence. The birds mentioned by 
Mr. Selby as in the Museum of the University, Edinburgh, and 
said to have been killed on the Pentland Hills, are known to Mr. 
Macgillivray to have been brought from Erance. 
In the summer and autumn of 1826, I met with the golden 
oriole near Eotterdam, in Holland ; in the finely wooded valley 
* These are the individuals alluded to by Mr. Templeton in Charlesworth’s Maga- 
zine of Natural History, vol. i. p. 405. 
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