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Order GEALLATOEES. 
Kentish Plover, vol. ii. p. 104. 
Mr. E. Ball informs me that one of these birds, preserved in Trinity 
College Museum, was shot at Baldoyle (county Dublin), on the 8th of 
August, 1848, by Dr. Apjohn. 
Green Sandpiper, vol. ii. p. 208. 
Dublin , December 1 849. Mr. Watters purchased here a fresh specimen 
on November 10, 1846, and another on August 18, 1847 ; the latter 
was killed at the North Bull, Dublin Bay : between those dates he saw 
three other fresh birds on sale. January 10 th and 12 th, 1850. He 
mentions that at the former date one was killed in the county of Kildare, 
and on the latter, one was brought to him by a hawker of wild-fowl, 
who did not know where it had been killed. 
Long-legged Plover, vol. ii. p. 221. 
The following additional note on this species was kindly sent to me 
in August 1850, by Mr. E. D. Fitzgerald, jun., of Tralee, but the date 
of the occurrence could not be ascertained. — “ The account which a 
friend of mine gave me of the black- winged stilt, one of which he 
shot in Castlemaine Bay, may interest you. When he first observed 
a small flock settled on the oozy bank of the river, their appearance 
was very strange, for they seemed to be supported altogether without 
the aid of legs ; on a nearer approach be remarked that they swayed 
from one side to the other, not with the jerking motion of the red- 
shank, but as though to steady themselves, and as if their limbs 
could scarcely support them. Upon shooting one, he was so anxious 
to secure it, that he neglected to watch what became of the rest. If 
he had done so, he would, he is sure, have killed more, as they were 
very tame, and flew up the river ; he searched for, but was unable to 
find them again.” The bird was so much injured as not to be worth 
setting up as a specimen. 
Woodcock, vol. ii. p. 248, 
Is mentioned as breeding in Gurteen Wood, county Tipperary, in 
1841. In June 1850, I learned that some pairs had bred there 
