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Text references Books Figures of Irish birds are not required, as all the species are included, down to the period of publication (to mention British works only) in Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology [1821-1834] [1]; Gould's [2] Birds of Europe [1832–37]; and the History of British Birds [1797-1804, supplement in 1821] [ by Bewick [3] , and Yarrell [1843][4] , respectively. Coloured figures of many of the species are also given in Sir Wm. Jardine's [5] work on British Birds [Illustrations of Ornithology (1825–43)] ; and in Mr. Macgillivray's [6], the heads, at least, of nearly all the land birds are represented [A Manual of British Ornithology (1840 – 1842)A History of British Birds, indigenous and migratory, in five volumes (1837-1852)].

With so much already done pictorially and descriptively, on the subject of British ornithology, it may be considered superfluous to treat of the birds of Ireland in a separate work, but, in the author's opinion, every country should possess a Natural History specially appertaining to itself. In the publications referred to, the birds of Ireland have been but briefly indicated, — a species generally dis- missed in a single line, and so much appearing only in two works; — those of Sir Win. Jardine and Mr. Yarrell.

• William Sinclaire [Merchant in Belfast Had a bird collection] prominently
• Richard Langtry [Estate owner, near Belfast also Milltown] prominently
• Robert Ball [Dublin Museum, Zoological Gardens in Dublin] prominently
• John Montgomery, Esq. of Locust Lodge [on the coast of the county Down Loligo subulata var. ?
• Mr. McCalla Roundstone, Co. Galway prominently
• Rev. B. J. Clarke
• Robert Patterson [FRS, Belfast]
• Mr. R Davis, Clonmel
• Dr. Harvey, Cork [7]
• Mr. Templeton [John Templeton [8]
• Belfast Museum
• Mr J.V Stewart, John Vandeleur Stewart Rockhill, Letterkenny
• Mr.John Hancock Newcastle-upon-Tyne [9]
• Dr. J. D. Marshall
• R. Chute Blenville Kerry, Dublin Natural History Society
• Dr. R. Graves, Dublin
• Captain Fayrer R.N.
• James R. Garrett
• Mr R. Davis, jun.
• T.W. Warren Esq. Dublin
• Mr. Poole
• Northern Whig (newspaper)
• Dr. J. L. Drummond Surgeon on H.M.S. San Juan "anchored close to the New Mole at Gibraltar"
• Robert G. Bomford, Esq

Interesting references

• de Selys 1844 Autumn visit to Belfast

Bird preservers

• Richard Glennon [Active from 1834 - 1863 , preserver of birds and beasts, dealer in minerals, shells etc 3, Suffolk Street, Civil Parish of St. Andrew, Dublin]
• Mr. W S Wall bird preserver
• Mr. Glennon bird preserver, Dublin
• Mr. Nicholas, bird preserver, Belfast

Travels

• Velino [Italy]
• Great Park at Windsor
• rich and wooded district of Norfolk
• picturesque Matlock {Derbyshire] 29 June 1835
• stern grandeur Langdale Pikes [ Lake District]
• Pontine marshes between Rome and Naples
• Seven Towers, Constantinople
• between Valley of Sweet Waters and Constantinople
• heights of Pera, Constantinople
• Venice, Verona, Milan, Trieste, Patras
• Rosheen, Donegal
• Knowsley, Lancashire Menagerie [10] "with my freind Wm. Ogilby [11]
• Surrey Zoological Gardens April 1834

majestic promontory of Horn Head, Donegal

• Egeria, near Rome [12]
• June, 1835 chalk-cliffs, which rise above the river Derwent, near Cromford, Derbyshire My companion (A. H. Haliday, Esq.,) found quite a harvest of insects on the railing

of the bridge

• Helmsley, Yorkshire, in Oct., 1844
• Mr. Hyndman
• Sir Wm. Jardine

this species [House Martin] had just commenced nest-building against the houses in the town of Navarino; in May, was common about Smyrna ; in June, at Patras, where as usual, it was building against the houses in the town. At Trieste, in the same month, the house-martin was numerous, as it likewise was in July, about Venice, Verona, and Milan ; — having in the last city fine nesting-places about the magnificent Arch of Peace [13]

• sandy bay west of Portrush
• during a tour of the south of Europe and the Levant, made

by the author in the spring and summer of 1841

• On the 9th of April, about the Rhone, between

Lyons and Avignon, where very few appeared; on the 17th, when a number were seen about Valetta in Malta, in company with many swallows, house-martins, and swifts; on the 30th, when several were observed between Navarino and Modon.

• When at Macgilligan, in the county of Londonderry, in July,

1833

• as we drove slowly from Dunfanaghy to the city of Londonderry
• At the headlands above the Giant's Causeway, and those near

Carrick-a-rede (Antrim)

• Glenarm Park has come under my notice : at the range of

inland rocks called Salagh Braes, and in the cliffs at the Knockagh mountain, near Carrickfergus

• In the finely-wooded park at Shane's

Castle (Antrim)

• 9th April 1841 descending the Rhone from Lyons to Avignon 13th April "Leghorn to Pisa"

• 10th July 1841 "Splugen[14] into Switzerland"