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month of November). I saw the specimen in the house of Mr. 
E-eid, at Ballygowan Bridge, in the spring of that year, and was 
told that two others were in company with it when killed. Mr. 
E. Davis, jun. of Clonmel, has informed me that he obtained a 
dotterel, which was shot on the summit of the high mountain, 
Sliev-na-mon, about the 24th of June, 1835, in company with 
golden plover. That gentleman himself ascended the mountain 
on the 18th of August, and saw at some little distance two birds 
which he believed to be dotterels : he imagined that the species 
might be breeding there. He subsequently favoured me with the 
examination of the skin of one shot in another locality — on the 
mountains in the Liberties of Clonmel on the 24th of Au- 
gust, 1840 : it was in a state of moult, and had lost many 
feathers; but sufficient remained to prove its being a male, and at 
least one year old. On the 18th of August, 1841, two of these 
birds, believed to be an old and a young one, were seen by my 
correspondent hanging in a cook^s shop in Clonmel. Although 
positive information could not be obtained respecting them, he had 
little doubt of their having been shot near the town. The pre- 
ceding information leads to the belief that the dotterel may, in very 
limited numbers, annually migrate to the elevated mountains of 
the county of Tipperary to breed. If so, they are by far its 
most southern breeding haunts in the British islands. 
A gentleman, to whom the species is well known, has assured 
me that he saw four dotterels (of which he shot one) about the 
middle of August, 1841, in a field bordering Belfast bay, at Gar- 
nerville. About the end of September 1 844, one was obtained 
ill a fallow field a few miles to the west of Cork.^ Early in 
April 1848 a flock of about twenty dotterels appeared in a 
ploughed field in the Ards near Ballywalter (Down). Stones 
were several times thrown at them, which they regarded no more 
than by taking wing to fly to a very short distance. As they 
proved so tame, and were remarked by Mr. James Eankiii, who 
was present, to be of a species unknown in the district, he went 
Dr. Harvey in Fauna of Cork, Preface, p. iv. 
