William Thompson

“ This beautiful species — unlike a native of our clime — is but an occasional summer visitant.
A bird described to Mr. E. J Jail to have been the size of a thrush, and in colour, bright-yellow and black, frequented a garden between Middleton and Castlemartyr (county of Cork) , Footnote 1 for some months in the summer of 1817 (?) : he had no doubt of its having been a golden oriole. In the 1st volume of the Zoological Journal (p. 590) , one of these birds stated to have been shot in the county of Wexford, m May, 1823, is said to be preserved in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society. ”

“ When sailing in H. M. S. Beacon, from Malta to the Morea, in April, 1841, a female bird of this species flew on board on the 25th, when we were about 60 miles "from Calabria, — the nearest land — and 135 from Mount Etna: on the 27th two other females alighted on the rigging and were captured ”