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 time in different parts of Ireland. One may be mentioned as having been received from the county of Longford, on the 5th of April, by a bird-preserver in Dublin. When in that city, in the spring of 1838, I saw, in the possession of Edward Waller, Esq., a very fine specimen of the snowy owl, said to have been shot about three years before that time, near Omagh, in the county of Tyrone. There can be little doubt that this bird was of the same "flight" as the others. I was pleased to hear from Dr. P. Neill of Edinburgh, in August, 1835, that he had received a snowy owl alive, in the spring of that year, from Orkney, where it was cap- tured at the end of March. Dr. Neill has contributed a very interesting account of this individual to Sir William Jardine's History of British Birds, vol. i. p. 307. It is there said to have been taken in the middle of April.

On the 2nd of December, 1837, a beautiful specimen of the snowy owl was shot in a quarry on Scrabo mountain, in the county of Down, and came into the possession of Thomas M'Leroth, Esq., of Killinether House, in that neighbourhood, who liberally presented it to the Belfast Museum. Having come under my inspection in a recent state, I drew up the following description of this bird, which differs in some particulars from other speci- mens described in detail.* On that account, and for the purpose of comparison with individuals noticed in the sequel, it is here given : —

See Fauna Boreali-Americana, part ii, p. 190, VOL. I.