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SCOLOPACIDtE. 
This species, which is of frequent occurrence on the shores of 
Donegal, is described by my correspondents to be common in 
suitable localities — the soft oozy or sandy beach being preferred 
— southward from those already named to Dublin Bay, Wexford, 
Waterford, and Cork Harbours, and round to the western bays of 
Kerry and Galway. It is chiefly known as an autumnal visitant, 
but remains in some places until spring. About Lough Derg, an 
expansion of the river Shannon, it is said to be met with every 
year in the months of September and October : — in April 1847, 
two were killed there : — it is, however, much more of an estuary 
or marine bird, than the black-tailed godwit. 
The Limosa tufa, although so much more common than the 
black -tailed species, which still continues to breed (though very 
sparingly) in England, is not known to nidify in any part of the 
British Islands. 
THE BUEE. 
Machetes pugnax, Linn, (sp.) 
Tringa 
Visits Ireland on its autumnal migration southward not 
un frequently ; but very rarely appears on its vernal 
movement northward. 
An adult male in full plumage shot in company with two others in 
the Creagh bogs, near Castledawson, county of Londonderry, in 
May 1821, came into the possession of the late Mr. John Mont- 
gomery, in a recent state. It was preserved for his collection, and 
is now in the Belfast Museum. In March 1833, I saw in the 
possession of Mrs. Desmond, Dublin, two ruffs and a reeve in 
full nuptial plumage, which had been shot about the river Shannon. 
The collection of Mr. Massey, Pigeon-house Eort, Dublin Bay, 
contained in 1833 an immature specimen of the ruff which had 
been kiUed there : subsequently one was shot when frost was on 
