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When on a tour with Mr. E. Ball in the summer of 1834 to the 
west and south of Ireland, choughs were observed by us at Acliil 
Head, and the largest of the South Islands of Arran, &c., in the 
west : * in the south, they were heard about the Lower Lake 
of Killarney, and seen at Cable Island, near Youghal. Other 
parts of the coast of Cork are frequented by them. About the 
cliffs at Ardmore, county of Waterford, they are said by Mr. E. 
Ball to be numerous, and to congregate in the evening like jack- 
daws before going to roost. Eequiring two or three specimens for 
friends, he one evening in July or August offered a man a shil- 
ling each, for all that he would bring to him on the following 
morning, when, at an early hour, the man duly appeared with 
fourteen, and seriously apologised for the smallness of the number. 
Col. Sabine has remarked, that they breed in the rocks at Bally- 
bunian, on the coast of Kerry ; and the late Mr. T. F. Neligan of 
Tralee, in mentioning to me some years ago, that they were very 
common about the marine cliffs of that county, stated, that 
numbers built in the rocks of inland mountains, four or five miles 
distant from the sea. The choice of such places is not rare in 
Ireland. Some of the latest writers on British ornithology ap- 
pear to think, that the chough never leaves the vicinity of the sea, 
and in one work, it is stated, that the species is “ never observed 
inland,” although Crow Castle has been noticed by Montagu as 
one of its haunts ; this is situated in the beautiful vale of Llan- 
gollen in North Wales, where the Lombardy poplar, spiring 
above the other rich foliage around the picturesque village of the 
same name, imparts, in addition to other accompaniments, quite 
an Italian character to the scene. A pair of these birds were some 
years since observed throughout the breeding-season, about a ruin 
between N ewto wn-Crommelin and Cushendall, county of Antrim, 
three miles distant from the sea : at Salagh Braes, a semicircular 
range of basaltic rocks in the same county, and nearly twice that 
distance from the coast, the chough builds. The gamekeeper at 
Tollymore Park, county of Down, informed me in 1836, that he 
* “ Cornish choughs with red bills and legs/ 5 are noticed in 0’ Flaherty’s * H-Iar 
Connaught/ 5 written in 1684, as frequenting Arranmore, &c., p. 67. 
