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about thirty appeared. During the following winter they were in 
tolerable plenty near Cork, where Dr. Harvey considers that some 
have been every year of late. Early in November, numbers of these 
birds were seen at Castle Rea, Killala (county Mayo), and during the 
month, many — in one instance, a flock of not less than eighty— in 
the neighbourhood of Dublin. December 1850. They have been for 
some time about Tartaraghan (county Armagh). 
Mountain Linnet, vol. i. p. 272. 
This bird is more generally distributed and less confined to heathy 
mountain tracts than might be inferred from the remarks on it in Yol. I. 
It has, for the last two summers, been remarked as common, and 
breeding on the mountain sides, and occasionally on the wild sea-shore 
among furze or whins, in many parts of Antrim and Down. It breeds 
commonly, and remains all the year on the low heathy tracts adjacent 
to, and little elevated above the surface of, Lough Neagh. 
Crossbill, vol. i. p. 276. 
Seems now to be more than an “ occasional visitant.” Since Yol. I. 
appeared, the information communicated to me is as follows. July 20, 
1849 ; two shot near Londonderry ; great numbers at Castle Rea (county 
Mayo), at the same time; on the 26th of that month, a flock of about 
thirty was seen at Crowhill (county Armagh). Two, killed in Queen’s- 
county, in the middle of November, and others early in December. 
They are still (November 1849) in large flocks at Castle Rea. From 
November 1849, until March 1850, some were procured in the counties 
of Dublin and Wicklow. 1850. April 22. Two were killed at Crow- 
hill. On the 8 th of June, some were seen, and one was shot near 
Belfast. September. “ Crossbills have been at Ballibrado (county Tip- 
perary) for the last twelve months or more, and, we may infer, bred 
there.”* They were considered to have remained for more than a year 
at Castle Rea, and were perhaps resident about Crowhill within the 
periods mentioned. 
Starling, at vol. i. p. 289, 
Is remarked as having, after an absence of very many years, returned 
to nidify within the town of Belfast. It has continued to do so, and 
* Mr. It. Davis. 
