BIRDS OF IRELAND 
Order, RASORES. 
( Gallinaceous Birds , ) 
THE RING-DOYE. 
Wood-quest. Wood-pigeon. Cushat. 
Columha Falumhus, Linn. 
Is common throughout the wooded districts of the 
island. 
Mr. Waterton is rather disposed to believe that there is an 
annual increase, by migration, to the number of native birds in his 
part of Yorkshire; Mr. Selby, who resides in Northumberland, 
and probably makes the remark in reference to that county, con- 
siders that there is no such increase. The great numbers that 
congregate in autumn, and remain together during Winter in 
Ireland, have always been looked upon by me as our indigenous 
birds only, collected together in their choicest haunts, however 
widely they may have been separated during the breeding-season. 
Belvoir Park, near Belfast, with its fine and extensive woods, is 
quite a preserve for these birds, where throughout the autumn 
B 2 
