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THE ASH- COLOURED HARRIER. 
The first intimation of its occurrence was communicated to me by 
T. W. Warren, Esq., of Dublin, who stated that a bird believed 
to be this species, had been shot about the 1st of Oct., 1848, 
by James Walsh, Esq., near Bray. The attention of Mr. B. 
Ball being called to the specimen, he after a critical examination 
reported it to be a female of this species as described by Jenyns. 
It differed only from the description in the two central tail- 
feathers not being uniformly brown, but being instead very faintly 
barred with black. 
