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BEITISH SPECIES UNKNOWN AS IRISH. 
The Birds of the order Rasores, indigenous to Great Britain 
and not to Ireland, are the 
Stock Dove, Columba oenas. 
Black Grouse, Tetrao tetrix. 
Ptarmigan, Tetrao lagopus. 
In addition to these are the 
Passenger Pigeon, Columba migratoria, 
Red-legged Partridge, Terdix rufa. 
Barbary Partridge, Ferdix petrosa, 
Virginian Colin, Partridge or Q,uail, Ortgx 
Virginiana, 
^ a species confined to the midland and 
j^eastern counties of England. 
■[ already commented on. 
{ obtained once or twice in Scotland. 
which may have visited the south of 
England in a wild state ; but which 
has been introduced to that country 
and also to Ireland. 
r included iu the British Fauna, from 
■< a single specimen obtained in Leices- 
tershire. 
introduced to England from North 
America. Montagu, iu the Supple- 
ment to his Ornithological Diction- 
ary, published in 1813, mentions 
that “ the late General Gabbit 
- liberated many on his estates in Ire- 
land, but in two years the breed was 
lost.”* I have known these birds 
to live for a considerable time in 
aviaries exposed to the weather, in 
and about Belfast. 
One of these birds was shot at the 
end of October 1844, and another a 
few days afterwards in the neigh- 
bourhood of Chipping Norton, Oxon. 
This species inhabits the south of 
Europe and North Africa. 
{ One was obtained in Lincolnshire, 
Oct. 7j 1847. The species is a native 
of Persia and Western Asia.f 
No species of this Order unknown to Great Britain can be 
named with certainty as having been obtained in Ireland. 
* Noticed in article on “ Grosbeak, white-winged.” 
t Zoologist, 1848, p. 2065 and 2146. 
Andalusian Heraipode, Hemipodius tachydro-' 
mus, Tennn. 
