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of these birds was shot about thirty years ago, and the other, con- 
siderably before that time, when severe frost and snow prevailed. 
About the year 1820, one was killed at Castle Martyr, county of 
Cork * “In the winter of 1822-23, a specimen of the Bornby- 
cilla Bohemica , Briss., was found dead in the woods of Burton 
Hall, in the county of Carlow.” Zool. Journ., vol. i. p. 590. 
This note was contributed by Mr. Vigors, who informed me in 
November, 1839, that since the winter of 1822-3, chatterers had 
been obtained in three different years on the mountains, between 
the counties of Carlow and Wexford. A specimen was pro- 
cured in the Castlereagh hills, county of Down, about the 
winter of 1825-26. Dr. J. D. Marshall has noticed a male bird 
which was shot in the neighbourhood of Dublin, in January, 
1829 ;t and in this, or the following winter, another was killed at 
Ardtane, in that quarter. In the Belfast News-letter of Dec. 20, 
1831, J the following paragraph appeared: — “In the early part of 
last month a beautiful specimen of the Bohemian wax- wing (. Bom - 
bycilla Boliemica , Briss.), was shot in Newtownlimavady. It was 
perched upon a rowan tree in a garden, and seemed busily em- 
ployed in picking off the berries ; many of them were found in 
its craw when it was opened. It is preserved in the collection of 
Dr. Tyler of Newtownlimavady.” On Deb. the 6th, 1835, an 
extremely beautiful individual of this species, was shot in a 
garden at Ballymacarrett, in the suburbs of Belfast, and on the 
following day, another was seen at the same place. The former, 
which came under my inspection, proved on dissection to be a 
female; its stomach, which I did not examine until the 10th, 
four days after death, was entirely filled with the haws of the 
white-thorn ( Cratagus Oxyacantha), which exhaled an odour as 
fresh, as if just plucked from the tree. Each wing exhibited six 
plumelets, with their scarlet wax-like adornments ; some authors 
have described the female as wanting these altogether, and the 
greatest number I have seen attributed to her, are four or five. 
(Temm.) In this or the following winter, a specimen was ob- 
* Mr. R. Ban. f Mag. N. H. ii. 394. 
t Two were killed in this month in the north of England. Phil. Mag., 
1832, p. 84. 
