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county of Monaghan. At Lurgan Green, county of Louth, a 
male bird was procured* in the winter of 1832-33(?). 
The following information was acquired in Dublin. In the 
winter of 1814, an adult male (of which a beautiful drawing was 
made by Miss Battersby) was shot near the city. A bird in 
similar plumage was killed there in December 1828, and, at the 
end of the following month, another old male and two females, 
which I saw, were procured about the river Shannon, and sent to 
the metropolis to be preserved. In the winter of 1829-30, two 
smews were shot at Dalkey, Dublin Bay. Mr. W. S. Wall, bird- 
preserver, told me of his having received one of these birds on the 
14th December, 1835, and that the smew is brought to the 
market of the metropolis every winter ; Mr. Glennon, also, who, 
for many years, has followed the business of taxidermist there, 
informed me that he received about five or six smews to set up 
every winter, as many as are sent to him of the shoveller ( Anas 
clypeata ) , and hence he believes these tw T o species occur in about 
equal numbers. Mr. Dombrain reported the following to me from 
Dublin: — “ January 1837, a smew in the market; January 20, 
1838, four in the market, three males and one female; middle of 
Eebruary, same year, obtained a young male ” at a later period of 
the season he remarked that, although smews were plentiful that 
winter in Dublin market, he had not spen a Mergus senator there. 
In the winter of 1837-8 Mr. Wall purchased fourteen smews, 
and saw several more ; three which he preserved were adult males. 
On the 23rd of December, 1844, an old female bird was ob- 
tained; in December 1846, a female and young male were on 
sale together; and, one day in December 1847, five appeared, 
three of which were old males : a very fine bird in this plumage 
was brought there in March 1849. At the end of this year I was 
informed in Dublin by two persons (neither of whom has been 
previously alluded to in connection with the species), that a few 
smews are brought from inland localities to the market of the 
metropolis every winter. 
In the collection of Mr. T. W. Warren there is a smew which 
* Mr. H. H. Dombrain. 
