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2lst. of December, 1848, at the Manor House, Raheny, near 
Dublin. Mr. Templeton noticed it at his own residence, 
Cranmore, on the 17th. of June, 1818, and twice since. One 
was procured in the garden of the Bishop of Down, near 
‘Belfast, on the Ist. of March, 1834: one near Dublin, the 
first week in December, 18838; and one in the Phoenix Park, 
about the middle of May, 1844. Two in the same locality 
in December, 1843; one at Donnybrook, once so celebrated 
for its fair, in October, 1846; one at Rathfarnham, also in 
the same county, in January, 1847; and one at Moore’s 
‘Sweet Vale of Avoca, in the county of Wicklow, on the 
23rd. of May, 1837. One of a small party of six or seven, 
probably the family of the year, was procured at Clonmel, on 
the 27th. of December, 1834; others at Ballibrado, in the 
eounty of Tipperary; one near Waterford on the 9th. of 
October, 1830, and another on the 21st. of August, 1834, at 
Dunmore, in that county; and one at Dunmore, in Galway, 
on the Ist. of November, 1842. 
In Scotland it is sparingly distributed throughout the 
southern parts. Mr. T. Edwards has heard them sing near 
Banff, at Mayen and Rothiemary, and in the grounds of 
Duff House. It is not uncommon in the Valley of the 
Clyde, especially about Hamilton. They occur also near 
Paisley in Renfrewshire, Stevenston, in Ayrshire, and have 
been met with in Perthshire and Forfarshire. 
In Orkney one was shot in Sanday, in the summer of 
1846. 
It haunts thick hedges and brakes, woods, groves, and 
plantations, shrubberies, lanes, orchards, copses, and thickets. 
It migrates hither, in uncertain numbers, the middle of 
April, or earlier with the season, and leaves again in September. 
In late seasons it does not arrive till the beginning of May, 
and has been observed on the other hand on the 9th. of April. 
One has been killed in Kent, in January, and one seen in 
Surrey in December; and Mr. Allis says that he has been 
informed that some have been known to remain throughout 
the year in Yorkshire. The males do not travel quite ‘pari 
passu’ with the females, but arrive some days before them. 
It appears however to be certain, from the many instances 
already adduced, that some must stay with us every winter, 
and especially, it would seem, in Ireland. 
It is a bird of rather shy and timid habits, and at the 
same time lively and restless in its movements, quickly 
