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THE IRISH NATURALIST
A Monthly Zourinal
OF
GENERAL IRISH NATURAL HISTORY
ORGAN OF THE
Royal Zoological Soctety of Treiand; Dublin Microscopical Club ;
Belfast Naturalists Field Club; Dublin Naturalists Field Club,
Cork Naturalists’ Field Club; Limerick Field Club ;
Tyrone Naturalists’ Field Club.
EDITED BY
SeokGr oH CARPENT ES “6. Se 10Np-"M.k PAe
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AND
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ABBOTT, WILLIAM, Fermoy.
ADAMS, J., M.A., Royal College of Science, Dublin.
ALLINGHAM, HuGH, Ballyshannon.
BARRETT-HAMILTON, Major G. E. H., B.a., Kilmanock, New Koss.
BARRINGTON, R. M., M.A., LL.B., Fassaroe, Bray.
Booty, H. B., Ben Rhydding, Yorkshire.
CARPENTER, Pror. G. H., B.sc., Royal College of Science, Dublin.
CARROTHERS, N., 145 Stranmillis Road, Belfast.
CoLGAN, N., 15 Breffni Terrace, Sandycove, Co. Dublin.
Cotton, A. D., Herbarium, Royal Gardens, Kew.
DetaP, Rev. ALEX. H., B.A., Strabane.
DwERRYHOUSE, A. R., D.sc., Queen’s University, Belfast.
FARRAN, G. P., B.A., Fisheries Office, Dublin.
FLEMYNG, REv. CANON W. W., M.A., Coolfin, Portlaw, Co. Waterford.
Foster, NEvIN H., F.L.s., Hillsborough.
FRIEND, Rev. HILDERIc, Pocklington, York.
HaLBERT, J. N., National Museum, Dublin.
HarviE-Brown, J. A., Dunipace, Larbert, Stirling.
Hewitt, T. R., Royal College of Science, Dublin.
HincH, J. DE W., National Library of Ireland, Dublin.
Houston, J. D., Kilrea, Co. Derry.
Jackson, A. RANDELL, M.D., Chester.
JOHNSON, J. CHARLES, B.Sc., University College, Cork.
Jounson, Rev. W. F., M.a., Poyntzpass, Co. Armagh.
JourpDaIN, Rev. F. C. R., m.a., Clifton Vicarage, Ashbourne.
KNowLES, Miss M. C., National Museum, Dublin.
LANGHAM, CHARLES, Tempo Manor, Fermanagh.
Lett, REv. CANON H. W., m.A., Loughbrickland, Co. Down.
MacGIniay, P. J., Great Skellig Lighthouse.
Mason, Francis, Lambay, Co. Dublin.
May, GEORGE C., Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin.
METCALFE, Miss HELEN M., Enfield, Co. Meath.
Morrat, C. B., B.A., 23 Gardiner’s Place, Dublin.
Nicuots, A. R., M.A., National Museum, Dublin.
NICHOLSON, G. W., M.D., Brompton, London, S.W.
OpDELL, Mrs. ISABEL M., Ardmore, Co. Waterford
PAcK-BERESFORD, D. R., D.L., Fenagh House, Bagenalstown.
PATTEN, Pror. C. J., M.A., M.D., The University, Sheffield.
PENTLAND, G. H., Black Hall, Drogheda.
PERCEVAL, PuiLip D., Hazlewood, Sligo.
iv List of Contributors.
PHILLIPS, R. A., Ashburton, Cork.
PRAEGER, R. Lioyp, B.A., National Library, Dublin.
PRAEGER, Pror. W. E., Kalamazoo College, Michigan.
RoHu AND Sons, Grand Parade, Cork.
ScHARFF, R. F., PH.D., B.sc., National Museum, Dublin.
ScuLLy, R. W., F.L.s., Rockfield, Dundrum.
SELBIE, C. M., B.sc., National Museum, Dublin.
SOUTHERN, ROWLAND, B.SC., Fisheries Office, Dublin.
STONEY, C. V., Raphoe.
SWAIN, ProF. I., B.a., University College, Cork.
JSSHER, R. J., J.p., Cappagh House, Co. Waterford.
WARREN, ROBERT, J.P., Monkstown, Co. Cork.
WELtcH, R., 49 Lonsdale Street, Belfast.
WHITEHEAD, H., Toynbee Hall, London, E.
WITHERBY, H. F., 326 High Holborn, London.
Wyse, L. H. BoNAparTE, Ealing, London.
PLATES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
Irish Oligochaets, ‘ ; : ; watt , Pp 10
Nematoda from Co Dublin, : ; : pp. 148-151
Clubiona juvenis Simon (Plate r) . to face page 205
Richard John Ussher (Portrait) : . to face page 221
Petrobius brevis/ylis (Plate 2) ; : ; p. 229
Petrobius maritimus (Plate 3) ; , pa 249
ERRATA.
Page 180, lines 14 and 26 for ‘“‘Ternaeoidea”’ vead ‘‘ Lernaeoidea.”’
is line 27, for ‘‘Ayulus,” read ‘‘ Argulus.”’
a line 28, for ‘‘ Tevella,” read “‘ Penella.’’
PN D- Bie
Abbott, W. M.: Gannets on the
Skelligs in 1700, 123.
Actaeonia Cocksi, 116.
Adalaria proxima, 33.
Adams, J.: Praeger’s
Simple lessons for children ’’
(review), 215; Some new locali-
ties for marine algae, I2.
Adders and toads introduced into
Co. Down, 81.
Alcock, Nathaniel H.:
notice of, 144.
Algae, marine, 12, 142.
Algae marine of the Saltees, 195.
Alisma hybrid, new, from Ireland,
‘“ Weeds :
Obituary
179.
Allingham, H.: ‘“ Slow-worm”’
near Ballyshannon, 121.
Alston, Charles Henry * Wild
Life in the West Highlands ”’
(reviewed), 55.
Ammi majus in Co. Down, 18.
Amphioxus lanceolatus, 97.
Angraecum Andersonii, 37.
Auk, Little, in August,. 235.
Balfour-Browne, F.: " Aquatic
Coleoptera of the Isle of Man’
(reviewed), 13; Entomological
lectureship in Cambridge,
appointment, 44.
Barrett-HMamaton, ~G.. EE. H.:
Daubenton’s Bat in Co. Water-
ford, 63; Grey-lag Goose in
Wexford, 63.
Barrington, Richard M.: Carrion
Crow at Lambay, 83; Irish Wild
Oat, (1247 “Svory Gaull an’ Co.
Donegal, 123; Lesser White-
throat at Rockabill, 163; Little
Auk in August, 235; Obituary
Hoisee ‘of. Rio f;- Ussher; zor ;
Siberian Skylark in Co. Cork,
20; Snowy Owl on Tory Island,
122; Tree Pipit and Pied Fly-
catcher at Rockabill, 220.
Bat, Daubenton’s in Co. Waterford,
63.
Beekite, 62.
Bees and flowers, 65, I21.
Beetles, Irish, 41, 49; from Co.
Louth, 202.
Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club,
£43.) 38, (60,0773) 98,1 FEZ) 156
(fiftieth anniversary), 203.
“ef
Bird migration, 141.
Birds, Irish, recent Notices of,
44, 164
Blackbird’s note, 144.
Booth, H. B.: Late stay of Swifts,
43.
Botanists of the North of Ireland,
21.
British Ecological Society, 142.
Capercailie, extermination of) 122 .
Carpenter, G. H.: Collinge’s “ Food
of some British wild birds’
(review), 161 ; Lulham’s “ Intro-
duction to Zoology with
directions for practical work
(invertebrates) ’’ (review), I61 ;
Petrobius, Irish species, 228.
Carrothers, N.: Viola Reichen-
bachiana in Down and Fer-
managh, 99.
Cats: Wild Cats in Ireland, 84,
O4, 124, 125). 127.
Cephalozia connivens, 17.
Cillenus lateralis in Co. Louth, 202.
Cineraria cruenta, 17.
Clare Island Survey—Botany, 51.
Clostera reclusa at Coolmore, Co
Donegal, 162.
Clubiona juvenis Simon, 205.
Coles) Gina : “ Interbasaltic
rocks of North-east Ireland’ ’
(reviewed), I0O ; Mennell’s
“* Manual of Petrology ”’ (review),
204; ‘‘ Outlines of Mineralogy
for Geological students’”’ (re-
viewed), 236.
Coleoptera from Kerry, 75.
Colgan, Nathaniel: Adalaria prox-
ima, 33; Burnt ground flora of
Killiney Hill, further notes on,
85; Nudibranch fauna of Co
Dublin, some additions to, 165.
Collinge, Walter E.: ‘‘ Food
some British Wild Birds’’ (re-
viewed), 161.
Corethra plumicornis, 61.
Cork Naturalists’ Field Club, 136.
Cotton, A. D.: Irish seaweeds
142; Marine algae of the Saltees,
195.
Cowslip in Co. Down, 119.
Crows: Carrion Crow at Lambay,
* 43, 83, 84, 99.
vi Index
Cruciferae, structure of replum in,
Gre : Stone Curlew in Co. Cork,
Fe phodeeee 61.
Daubenton’s Bat in Co. Waterford,
63.
Delap, Alex. H.: Bees and flowers,
120.
Dipper in Co. Longford, 236.
Discomegistus pectinatus, I16.
Doris proxima, lingual ribbon, 61.
Doves: Stock-doves in Co. Fer-
managh, 219.
Dublin Microscopical Club: 17,
37, G1 ,.°977.,97; 110, 135, LOO /,27o-
Dublin Naturalists’ Field Club: 16,
40, 78, 98, 118, 160, 227.
Duck, Common Eider, in Co.
Wexford, 20.
Dwerryhouse,. A. R.: Cole,
and others’ ** Inter-basaltic rocks
of North-east Ireland” (re-
viewed), 100.
Eider-duck, Common, in _ Co.
Wexford, 20.
Eleagnus japonicus, 37.
Farran, G. P.: Nightjars at sea,
235; Scott’s (Thomas. and
Andrew) “British Parasitic Cope-
poda,” (review), 180.
Flemyng, W. W.: Gamekeeper’s
list of undesirables, 162 ; Spotted
Flycatchers at Portlaw, 219.
Flora: Burnt ground flora of
Killiney Hill, 85.
Flora of the Saltees: Phanero-
gamia, 181 ; Mosses and hepatics,
192; marine algae, 195; lichens,
199.
Flowers and bees, 65, 121.
Flycatchers, Pied, at Rockabill,
220; Pied, on migration at Tuskar
Light, 220; Spotted, at Port-
law, 219.
Forgers of nature’s signature, 202.
Formalin as an insecticide, Ig.
Foster, Nevin H.: Golden Oriole
in “Goii Tyrone, 14435
Swans in Co. Down, 63.
Foster, Nevin H. and D. R. Pack-
Beresford : Additions to the dis-
tributional records of Woodlice
in Ireland, 45.
Friend, Rev. Hilderic: Irish Oli-
gochaets, 7; notes on Dublin
Oligochaets, 169.
Fulmars on Tory Island, 164. »
Whooper
Gamekeeper’s list of undesirables,
£62.
Gannets on the Skelligs n 1700,
Glyciphagus domesticus, 17.
Goose, Grey-lag, in Wexford, 63.
Grania maricola, 116.
Grasshopper-warbler on migration
at the Tuskar, 83.
Gull: Iceland, in July on Inishtra-
bull}: 219:;) ‘Gulljecbvory,; ano,
Cork, 123; in Co. Donegal, 123,
Haigh, W. D.: “ Interbasaltic
rocks of North-east Ireland ’’
(reviewed), 100.
Halbert, J. N.: Balfour-Browne’s
‘““ Aquatic Coleoptera of the Isle
of Man ”’ (reviewed), 13; Insects
on the Great Blasket and in West
Kerry, 62.
Harvie-Brown, J. A.: Wild Cats
in Ireland, 125.
Heatherley, Francis: ‘‘ Peregrine
Falcon at the eyrie’’ (reviewed),
214.
Helodine larva, hypopharynx and
maxillulae, 136.
Helvella crispa in Co. Donegal, 218.
Hepatics from Co. Kerry, 218.
Hepatics of Killarney, 162.
Heron, Squacco, in Co. Mayo, 81.
Hewitt, IT. R.: A few species of
Nematoda from Co. Dublin, 147.
Hiberno-Lusitanian problem, 142.
Hinch, J. de W.: Shelly drift of
Glenulra and Belderrig, Co. Mayo,
r3
Hopkinson, John: “ Bibliography
of the Tunicata, 1469-1810”’
(reviewed), 137.
Horwood, A. R.: “‘ Hand List of
the Lichens of Great Britain,
Ireland, and the Channel Islands’”’
(reviewed), 36.
Houston, J. D.: Rare mosses in
Counties Antrim and Derry, 44.
Hypocthonius rufulus, 38.
Ichneumonide, Irish, 43.
Ichneumonide and _ Eraconide,
Irish, 138.
Insects at Coolmore, Co. Donegal,
2; on the Great Blasket and in
West Kerry, 62.
“Irish Naturalist,’ coming of age
of, for,
“ Trish Topographical Botany,”
additions to in 1908-1912, 103.
Index. Vii
Jackscn A. Randell, and Denis R.
Pack-Beresford: Clubiona ju-
venis Simon, 205.
Johnson, J. Charles:
an insecticide, 19.
Johnson, W. F.: Clostera reclusa
at Coolmore, Co. Donegal, 162 ;
Food of Silpha subrotundata,
234; Insects at Coolmore, Co.
Donegal, 42; Irish Ichneumoni-
dae and _ Braconidae, 138;
Myriopoda, Irish, a correction,
203; notes on, 128; Longicorn
at Poyntzpass, 203; Two beetles
from Co. Louth, 202.
Jourdain, F.C. R.: Extermination
of the Capercailie, 122.
Formalin as
** Interbasaltic rocks
Ireland” (re-
Kalzoe. js i.-:
of North-east
viewed), 100.
Kirkman, F. B.: “ British Bird
_ Book” (reviewed), 53.
Knowles, M. C.: Horwood’s ‘‘ Hand-
list of the lichens of Great
Britain, Ireland, and the Channel
Islands’’ (review), 36; Lichens
of the Saltees, 199.
Langham, Charles: Stock-doves
in Co. Fermanagh, 219.
Leech, Medicinal, in Ireland, 19.
Lejeunea serpyllifolia var. cavifolia,
71-
Lepidoptera from Kerry, 75.
Lett, H. W.: Ammi majus in Co.
Down, 18; Botanists of the
North of Ireland, 21; Hepatics
from Co. Kerry, 218; Mosses
and Hepatics of Saltees, 192.
Leucojum estivum in South
Tipperary, 143.
Lichens of the Saltees, I99.
Limapontia capitata, 116.
Longicorn at Poyntzpass, 203.
Lulham, Rosalie: ‘‘ Introduction
to Zoology with directions for
practical work (invertebrates) ”’
(reviewed), 161.
M‘Henry, Alex.: ‘“ Interbasaltic
rocks of North-east Ireland ’’
(reviewed), 100.
Macginley, P. J.: Notes from the
Skelligs, 211,
Masdevallia triangularis, labellum
OF. G7-
Mason, Francis :
Lambay, 99.
May, George C.: Carrion Crow at
Lambay, 43 ; Woodcock carrying
young, 63.
Mennell, F. P.: ‘ Manual . of
Petrology ”’ (reviewed), 204.
Metcalfe, Helen M.: Notes on the
Tree Sparrow, 82.
Micralymma brevipennis in County
Louth, 202.
Moffat, C. B.: Alston’s ‘‘ Wild Life
in the West Highlands ” (review),
55; Bees and flowers, 65; “‘ Irish
Naturalist,’> coming of age of,
tor; Kirkman’s “ British Bird
Book ”’ (review), 53.
Mollusca from Great Saltee Island,
218.
Moss, C. E.: ‘“‘ Interbasaltic rocks
of North-east Ireland’ (re-
viewed), I00.
Mosses, of Antrim and Derry, 44 ;
of Killarney, 162; of the Saltees,
192.
Myriapoda, 128, 131 ; A correction,
203.
Carrion Crow on
Nature Reserves, Formation of
Society. f11.
Nematoda from Co. Dublin, 147.
Nichols, A. R.: Common Eider-
duck “in” Co... Wextord,. "2a"
Squacco Heron in Co. Mayo, 81.
Nicholson, G. W.: Some additional
records of Irish beetles (chiefly
from Meath), 49.
Nightjars at sea, 235.
Nudibranchs of Co. Dublin, 165.
Obituary: Alcock, Nathaniel H.,
144; Orr, Hugh Lamont, 115 ;
Ussher, Richard John, 221.
Odell, Isabel M.: Early Swallows
at Ardmore, 84.
Oligochaets of Dublin, 169; Irish
cf
Opisthobranch Mollusca, changes
in the radula during process of
growth, 216.
Oriole, Golden, in Co. Tyrone, 143.
Orr, Hugh Lamont, Obituary
notice, II5.
Owl, Snowy, on Tory Island, 122
Vill
Pack-Beresford, D. R., and Nevin
H. Foster: Additions to the
distributional records of Wood-
lice in Ireland, 45.
Pack-Beresford, Denis R., and
A. Randell Jackson: Clubiona
juvenis Simon, 205.
Patten, C. J.: Aquatic Warbler on
migration at Tuskar, 220; Bird
migration, 141; Black Tern on
migration at Tuskar, 218;
Grasshopper-Warbler on migra-
tion at the Tuskar, 83; Iceland
Gull in July and Mealy Redpoll
on Inishtrahull, 219; Tree Pipits
and Pied Flycatcher on migration
at Tuskar, 220; White and Pied
Wagtails, proportion in numbers
of, observed on migration at the
Tuskar, 124; White Wagtails
on migration at Inishtrahull,
235; Wren on migration at the
Tuskar, 82.
Pentland, G. H.: Blackbird’s note,
144.
Perceval, Philip D.: Woodcock,
movements of, 208.
Petrobius : Irish species, 228 ; new
species from Portrane, 216.
Phanerogamia of Saltees, 181.
Phenological observations of the
Royal Meteorological Society, 99.
Phillips, R. A. : Leucojum aestivum
in South Tipperary, 143.
Phytogeographical excursion, inter-
national, 81.
Phytophthora erythroseptica, 97.
Pipit,, Tree, at_.Rockapill,. “220. ;
at Tuskar, 220.
Plants: Antrim and Down, 19;
Irish water plants, 18.
Polygala vulgaris var. grandiflora,
6
4.
Praeger, R. Lloyd: Cowslip in Co.
Down, 119; Helvella crispa in
Co. Donegal, 218; Additions to
“Trish Topographical Botany ’’
in 1908-I9gI2, 103; Irish water-
plants, 18; Mollusca from Great
Saltee Island, 218; Phanero-
gamig of the Saltees, 181 ; Plants
of Antrim and Down, 19 ; Ravens
on Brandon, Co. Kerry, 234 ;
Sprianthes Romanzoffiana in Co.
Armagh, 179; Trifolium fili-
forme ~in’” West “Mayo, 116.
“Weeds: Simple lessons for
children ” (reviewed), 215.
Praeger, W. E.: Snakes intro-
duced into Co. Down, 121.
rionolobus Turneri, 38.
Index.
Ravens on Brandon, Co. Kerry,
234.
Redpoll, Mealy, in July on Inish-
trahull, 219.
Reviews: Alston’s “ Wild Life in
the; .West.. <dishlands' 3 55".
Balfour-Browne’s ‘“‘Aquatic Cole-
eptera of the Isle of Man, 253;
Cole’s “‘ Outlines of Mineralogy
for Geological Students,’’ 236;
Cole, Wilkinson, M‘Henry, Kil-
roe, Seymour, Moss, and Haigh’s
“Interbasaltic rocks (iron ores
and bauxites) of North-east
Ireland,” 1:0; Collinge’s “‘ Food
of Some British Wild Birds,’’
161; _-Heatherley’s. “ Perepriae
Falcon; at the... Kyries’ = aaa;
Hopkinson’s ‘“‘ Bibliography of
the Tunicata 1469-1810,’ 136;
Horwood’s ‘“‘ Hand List of the
lichens of Great Britain, Ireland,
and the Channel Islands,” 36 ;
Kirkman’s ‘‘ British Bird Book,”
53; Lulham’s “ Introduction to
Zoology with directions for
practical work (invertebrates),’’
161; Rennell’s ‘Manual of
Petrology,”’ 204°, Praeger's
“Weeds: Simple lessons for
Children,’”’ 215 ; Scott’s (Thomas
and Andrew) “ British Parasitic
Copepoda,”’ 180.
Rhantus exoletus in Co. Mayo, 41.
Rohu and Sons: Stone Curlew and
Ivory Gull in Co. Cork, 123.
Royal Zoological Society: 14, 36,
56 (Annual Meeting), 76, 96, 116,
135; £555 27755293, 210,
Salmon, young living larvae from
Dublin Zoo hatchery, 77.
Scharff, R. F.: Whale-fishery n
Ireland, 145; Supposed former
occurrence of the Wild Cat in
Ireland, 84, 127.
Scott, Thomas and _ Andrew,
“ British Parasitic Copepoda ”’
(reviewed), 180.
Scully, Reginald W.: Stachys
Betonica, &c., in West Cork, 217.
Seaweeds, Irish, 12, 142; of.Sal-
Pees. 4iO5s
Sedum, hybrid, leaf of, 37.
Selbie, C. M.: Irish Myriapoda,
new records, 131.
Seymour, H. J.: “‘ Interbasaltic
rocks of North-east Ireland ”’
(reviewed), 100.
ix Index.
Shearwater, Great, on Tory Island,
164.
Shelly drift of Glenulra and Bel-
derrig, Co. Mayo, 1.
Silpha subrotundata, food of, 234.
Skelligs, notes from, 178, 211.
Skuas, Migration of Richardson’s
and Pomatorhine Skuas, 152.
Skylark, Siberian, in Co. Cork, 20.
““Slow-worm ”’ near Ballyshannon,
Et.
Snakes introduced into Co. Down,
x27.
Southern, ie: Hopkinson’s
“ Bibliography of the Tunicata ’’
(reviewed), 137.
Sparrows, Tree, in Co. Donegal,
163; “notes on; 82:
Spiranthes Romanzoffiana in Co.
Armagh, 179.
Springtail, Blind, 61.
Squacco Heron in Co. Mayo, 81.
Stachy’s Betonica, &c., in West
Cork, 217.
Stoney, C. V.: Tree Sparrow in
Co. Donegal, 163.
Swallow, early, at Ardmore, 84.
Swain, I.: Cole’s ‘‘ Outlines of
Mineralogy for Geological
Students ”’ (review), 236.
Swans, Whooper, in Co. Down, 63.
Swifts, late stay of, 43.
®
Tern, Black, on migration at Tus-
kar, 218.
Tetraphis pellucida, 61 ; germinated
spore of, 217.
Toads introduced into Co. Down,
81.
Trifolium angulatum, 136.
Trifolium filiforme in Co. Mayo,
FIO:
Trifolium parviflorum, 136.
Ussher, R. J.: Fulmars and Great
Shearwater on Tory Island, 164 ;
Heatherley’s ‘“‘ Peregrine Falcon
at the Eyrie’”’ (review), 214;
Notes from the Skelligs, 178 ;
Obituary ‘notice, 221; List of
books and papers by, 225.
Viola Reichenbachiana in Down
and Fermanagh, 99.
Wagtails, White: Migration of, at
Bartragh, 174; Migration, ob-
served at Inishtrahull, 235;
White and Pied, proportion in
numbers of, observed on migra-
tion at Tuskar, 124.
Warblers, Aquatic, on migration
at Tuskar, 220; Grasshopper-
warbler on migration at Tuskar,
a
Warren, Robert: Migration of
Richardson’s and Pomatorhine
Skuas, 152; Migration of the
White Wagtail on the Island of
Bartragh, Killala Bay, 174; Wild
Cats in Ireland, 94.
Welch, R. J.: Adders and Toads
introduced into Co. Down, 81.
Whale-fishery in Ireland, 145.
Wheat experiments at Albert Farm,
Glasnevin, 64.
Whitehead, H.:
in Ireland, 19.
White-throat, Lesser, at Rockabill,
163.
Wilkinson, S. B.: “ Interbasaltic
rocks of North-east Ireland ”’
(reviewed), 100.
Witherby, H. F.:
at Lambay, 84.
Woodcock: carrying young, 63;
Observations on movements of,
208.
Woodlice, Additions to the distri-
butional records of, 45.
Wren on migration at the Tuskar,
82.
Wyse, L. H. Bonaparte: Lepi-
doptera and Coleoptera from
Kerry, 75; Rhantus exoletus in
Co. Mayo, 41.
Medicinal Leech
Carrion Crow
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VOLUME XXII.
THE SHELLY DRIFT OF GLENULRA AND
BELDERRIG, CO. MAYO.
BY J. DE W. HINCH.
The earliest information regarding the Shelly Drift of
north Mayo occurs in a paper read before the Geological
Section of the British Association in 1875, by W. A. Traill.
The paper gives a short description of the deposits in
Glenulra, and at Fiddawtawnanauneen, and mentions the
occurrence of shells and shell fragments, those identified
being Tellina proxima, Cyprina tslandica, and a Balanus.
The author disclaims any desire to theorize on the origin
of the deposits, and only wishes to place on record the facts
which had come under his notice. A considerable addition
to our knowledge of the deposits was made during the
mapping of the solid geology of the district by H.M. Geo-
logical Survey.2.. Mr. W. A. Traill reported the occurrence
of a hard blue compact clay (t//) with shells as the lowest
component of the series. This till occurred in Glenulra,
Fiddawntawnanauneen, and at Belderrig Harbour, and at
the last two places Tellina calcarea was found in considerable
abundance, and with the valves unbroken.
Above the till was widely-spread brownish Boulder-clay,
in which at Glenulra and the Owenbehey were found
numerous shell-fragments. A collection of these was
1 On the occurrence of a Lower Boulder-clay or Till, with shells, in
the Counties of Down and Mayo, Ireland. British Association Report,
1875, pp. 83-84.
2 Memoir to accompanying sheets 39, 40, 51, 52, Geol. Surv., Ireland.
Dublin, 1881,
A
2 The Irish Naturalist. January,
made, and with those collected at Belderrig, submitted
to Canon Grainger, M.R.I.A., who named the following :—
Tellina calcarea Cyprina islandica
Saxicava rugosa Leda pernula
Leda abyssicola ? Buccinum undatum
Mya truncata Mytilus modiolus
Fusus antiquus Balanus
Natica (borings)
Overlying the Boulder-clay occurred sands and _ gravels,
which at Glenulra and Glenglassera attained a considerable
development, and at these places contained shell-fragments.
The natural history survey of Clare Island during the
past few years raised many questions of geological interest,
and one of the most important was the evidence for any
considerable change of climate during the Glacial Epoch.
The occurrence in the Boulder-clay of the shells of marine
mollusca, the distribution of which is to-day either arctic or
northerly, is considered as tending to prove that at that time
the climate was much more severe than at the present day.
Among the species of mollusca obtained from the Boulder
clay of Clare Island not one occurred which is not still com-
mon and widely distributed around the British and Irish
coasts. A further search of Clew Bay yielded no faunistic re-
sults, and it was then decided that an examination of the
north Mayo deposits should be undertaken, as in Canon
Grainger’s list at least two of the mollusca—Tellina calcarea
and Leda pernula—were of those northerly types, which are
not present in the British seas of to-day, and it was hoped
that a further search might add to the number. The
conditions under which the unbroken valves of Tellina
calcarea occurred was also considered as a matter to be
looked into, as such large, flat, fragile shells are very seldom
found unbroken in true Boulder-clay.
With these objects in view two visits were paid to north
Mayo during the past year—one in August, when days
of unceasing rain were a great advantage for the collection
of shell-fragments—the second in October, when a drought
of three weeks had emptied the streams in many cases to
dryness, enabling one to move about freely and inspect the
sections. The coast from Lackan Bay to Portacloy, a
1913. Hincn.—Shelly Drift of Co. Mayo. 3
distance of twenty-two miles as the crow flies, was examined
during a total of thirteen days, and the limits of the shelly
drift ascertained. | From Lackan Bay around Downpatrick
Head to Ballycastle is pleasant open country, but from
Ballycastle westward the land gets steadily wilder and
bleaker, until between Belderrig and Porturlin it becomes
desolate in the extreme. It was found that the limits of the
Shelly Drift were roughly the eastern slope of Glenulra, and
the western slope of the Belderrig River valley; and on the
ground between these two points most of the time was spent,
with the result that as regards the mollusca a number
of new records may be added to Canon Grainger’s list—
and that the Boulder-clay near Belderrig, containing Tellina
calcarea, is found to be of later date than the till in Glenulra
and of the overlying brown Boulder-clay. The following
appears to be the sequence of the Glacial deposits in this
district :—
. Sands and gravels.
. Belderrig Boulder-clay with Tellina calcarea.
. Brown Boulder-clay, mostly of local origin.
. Stiff blue Boulder-clay (Till).
. Boulder-bed in the Owenbehy.
1. The Boulder-bed in the Owenbehy is composed of
rounded and sub-angular boulders of sandstone, with
practically no clay and with no shells. _—It has a thickness
of about two feet, and occurs in the left bank of the river,
which it occupies for about Ioc yards. As this bed does
not appear in any other section in the district it may be
the old river debris of pre-glacial times.
2. The Till or stiff blue clay with erratics and _ shell-
fragments occurs in three places in the district—Glenulra,
at an elevation of about 160 feet, and the eastern and
western branches of the Owenbehy, at about 270 feet.
In each case it makes its appearance in the same manner, first
becoming visible in the bed of the stream between the river
boulders; then it gradually begins to appear from
under the local Boulder-clay in the river-bank, and having
attained a thickness in most Gases of about 4 feet it dis-
appears again under the local Boulder-clay, after running
for about 100 yards. The erratics noted in the till were
striated limestone, sandstone, mica-schist, grits and granite.
A2
HN O& BB UL
4 The Irish Naturalist. January,
Six sections of this till were examined, three in Glenulra
and three in the Owenbehy, and a large collection of shell-
fragments was made; the following species were deter-
mined from the collection made up in Glenulra :-—
Ostrea edulis, Linn. Tellina balthica, Linn.
Mytilus, sp. Corbula sp.
Nuculana (Leda) pernula Glycimeris (Panopea) norvegica,
O. F. Miller. Speng.
Cardium edule, Linn. Mya truncata, Linn.
Cardium echinatum, Linn. Turritella communis, Risso.
Cyprina islandica, Linn. Purpura lapillus, Linn.
Astarte borealis, Chem. = Balanus poratus.
From the collection of shell-fragments made in the
Owenbehy, Corbula and Purpura were abesent ; otherwise
the list was the same as for Glenulra.
3. The third in the sequence is the brownish Boulder-clay,
which extends widely over the area examined. In com-
position it varies from tough Boulder-clay, with rounded
and striated erratics, to mounds of loose rocky debris, and
in development it ranges from a few inches in exposed places
to sections of forty or fifty feet in thickness in favourable
localities. | The erratics in this Boulder-clay include
sandstones, grits, limestones, granite, and mica-schists, but
the dominant boulders are sandstone, some fairly rounded,
but the greater number merely blocks and slabs derived from
no great distance. In Glenulra and the Owenbehy this
Boulder-clay rests on the eroded surface of the Till, and
in these places shell-fragments may be found in it in con-
siderable abundance. This Boulder-clay was searched for
shells from Lackan to Glenulra, from Glenglassera to
Porturlin, and also along the Glen valley for eight miles in
the direction of Crossmolina without a solitary shell-fragment
being found, so it may fairly be assumed that the shells
found in it in Glenulra and the Owenbehy were derived
from the underlying till during the process of denudation.
The following is a list of the species identified from this
Boulder-clay :—
Mytilus, sp. Tellina balthica
Nuculana (Leda) pernula Turritella communis
Cyprina islandica Balanus, sp.
1913. Hincu.-—Shelly Drift of Co. Mayo. 5
4. The Tellina Boulder-clay of the Belderrig district
occurs at the mouth of the Belderrig river, about 50 feet
above sea-level, and at Fiddawntawnanauneen at an
elevation of about 120 feet. The clay, which is highly
calcareous, contains many erratics, striated pebbles of
limestone, granite, mica-schists, sandstones, and quartz
rock. Numerous shell-fragments also occur at Belderrig.
The really striking feature of this clay is the presence
of large numbers of complete valves of Tellina calcarea.
This bivalve, which is synonymous with T. proxima and T.
lata, and is restricted at the present day to the colder
regions of the Northern Hemisphere, has an average length
and height of 1? and 13 inches, and like all the Tellinas
has no special strength of shell, yet after heavy rain a dozen
unbroken valves may be easily collected. Many of the
valves have such sharp outline, and retain their epidermis,
colour, and glaze to such an extent as to be indistinguishable
from modern specimens. The extraordinarily perfect state
of preservation of these Belderrig Tellinas when compared
with the fragmentary condition of the shells obtained from
the till of Glenulra and the Owenbehy raised the question
as to a possible later origin of the Belderrig Boulder-clay ;
and the occurrence in the Clyde valley of Tellina proxima
(=calcarea) as the chief shell in clays usually classed as
late Glacial supported this view. The latter date
of the Belderrig Boulder-clay was practically settled by
finding in one of the streams near Fiddawntawnanauneen,
that the Tellina clay rested on a clay which differed in no
respect from the brownish Boulder-clay of the district.
The following shells were found at Belderrig, usually in a
fragmentary condition.
Ostrea edulis Cyprina islandica.
Mytilus, sp. Tellina balthica
Nuculana (Leda) pernula Glycimeris (Panopea) norvegica
Cardium edule Turritella communis.
5. The Sands and Gravels of the district do not present
any special points of interest, as they are the usual extremely
variable fluvio-glacial deposits, so characteristic of the
closing stages of the Ice Age. In Glenulra shell-fragments
are very abundant, but did not add any new species to the
list obtained from the Till.
6 The Irish Naturalist. January,
It had been hoped that the source of origin of the three
Boulder-clays which were examined would be shown by a
careful review of the evidence obtained from the Mollusca
and the erratics. That the brownish Boulder-clay came from
the southward may be assumed at once, all the available
evidence supporting that view. The points of origin of the
Glenulra Till and the Belderrig Tellina-clay is much more
obscure. It is clear that both came from the northward,
the abundance of shells and shell-fragments proving this
beyond question, but we are unable to make any definite
statement beyond that. A considerable collection of
erratics was made from each horizon visited, and efforts
were made to find some typical rocks which could be traced
to Donegal. This ended in failure, because sandstones,
erits, limestones, mica-schists occur also in the Sligo district,
and such granites as were found may also have come from
the direction of the Ox Mountains. Mr. Kilroe, of H.M.
Geological Survey, who very kindly looked over the col
lection, could find nothing typical of Donegal, and con-
sidered that the facies of the collection pointed to the Sligo
and east Mayo direction. The matter must remain in
this state for the present, but the possibility that the
Belderrig Tellina-clay was brought by floating ice must not
be overlooked. This deposit is so limited in extent, and
occurs so near the present coast-line that even one large
berg could have swept the Tellina-clay into its present
position.
I have to thank Mr. R. J. Ussher, of Cappagh, for much
friendly advice regarding this rather out-of-the-way district.
National Library of Ireland.
1913. FriEND.—Z/rish Oligochaets. ‘;
TRISH OLIGOCHAETS:
BY REV. HILDERIC FRIEND, F.R.M.S.
In a recent issue of this Journal’ I gave some account
of the annelids found in earth attached to Primula roots
from Poyntzpass. After my examination in May, I placed
the material (earth and decaying roots) in a tin box, and
set it aside till the end of September. Meanwhile I had
been studying the seasonal order of appearance®, and, as
my second examination of the Poyntzpass earth throws
further light on the subject, I think it desirable to give an
account of what I have found. My first report showed
no fewer than eight species of annelids to be present in
the small quantity of earth received. I removed all the
specimens I could find, leaving the earth, as far as could be
ascertained, free from oligochaets of every description.
It was, therefore, with no little surprise that I found, after
the lapse of four or five months, no fewer than nine species
of annelids present. These, moreover, were not all of
the same species as previously reported, but consisted of a
number of new species, one of which seems to be new to
science. I give them in the order in which I found them
and at the end will be found a complete list of the species.
The earth has again been set aside to see if any further
results may be obtained.
1. Dendrobaena subrubicunda, Eisen.
One adult and two young specimens found, in addition to those reported
in September. A cocoon also seen on September 24th, but next day
the cocoon seemed to have yielded a young worm, which was returned
to the box with the two young ones, to await development. The cocoons
of this species are green, and about the size of a mustard seed or smaller.
2. Fridericia bisetosa, Levinsen.
Three further specimens of this species were present. Length about
10 mm., segments about 50. White to the naked eye, but brownish under
the microscope. Setae 1-2 with blunt external points; bent within.
Spermathecae with fairly long ducts and two diverticula. Salivary glands
slightly branched ; brain straight or slightly convex before and behind.
appearance varying with tension.
E Wo. KK1,,, 1912, Pp. B71—17a:
? Zoologist, July, 1912, p. 246-249.
8 The [rish Naturalist. January,
* 3, Fridericia helvetica, Bretscher.
Length 10-12 mm. Segments 42; similar to the foregoing in size
and colour, but with obtuse or bluntly rounded head; setae 4 per set
in front, 2 innermost shorter than outer pair; 2 per bundle behind.
Adult ; girdle with cells arranged in pretty regular rows, some 35 in num-
ber. Very long, irregularly curved duct with large pores and atrial
glands, with funnel about 3 x 1. The duct ciliated. Girdle extending
from xii. to 4} xiii., as is most usual, dorsal setae present on xil. Coe-
lomic corpuscles large; mixed with brown circular cells, which may
have been chloragogen cells detached from the intestine. Nerve chord
enlarged in front ; brain not observed. Large nephridia in 6/7-10/11,
with somewhat long duct springing from the middle of the post-septal.
Two diverticular to the spermathecae.
This description is in almost exact agreement with that of the species
found by me at Acresford, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, July 2nd, 1911 (2).
4. Enchytraeus minimus, Bretscher.
No fewer than ten additional specimens of this liliputian enchytraeid
found on the occasion of my second examination. It is frequently
not more than 2 mm. in length, and even the largest specimens do not
exceed 4 or 5 mm. ‘Though opaque white to the naked eye, the worm
appears very dark under the microscope. For details and references the
former report may be consulted.
*5, Enchytraeus Bucholzii, Vejdovsky.
Long known in England, this worm was first reported for Ireland by
Southern in 1906 (Ivish Nat., vol. xv., p. 184). As this species, as well
as the two which follow, has been the occasion of a good deal of confusion,
I append a few notes relating to the Poyntzpass specimens.
Length 10-12 mm. Segments 36. Setae 2-3. Salivary glands rather
large, with free ends somewhat expanded. Girdle somewhat conspicuous,
small duct to funnel which is about 2x 1. Spermatheca short, stout,
bottle-shaped, with glands at 4/5 opening. Intestine dark, owing to
the dark, oily chloragen cells resembling those of E. minimus. Coelomic
corpuscles many, large, grey. Brain large, varying behind with tension.
Dorsal vessel arising in the 13th segment, and running forward like a
white stream amid dark alluvium. ‘Three pairs of septal glands. Ne-
phridia in the front segments with large postseptal and duct from the
middle ; those behind the girdle were elongated. Testes filled segments
10-11. Cells of girdle rather large and irregular, about equal in size
to the clear spaces. Funnels and spermathecae* full of spermatozoa.
+ 6. Enchytraeus pellucidus, Friend.
Quite distinct from the foregoing and the next. Four specimens
present, fully adult. The very long brown duct, extending back to
Segment 16, 17, or 18 is a remarkable feature.
* New to Poyntzpass List.
+ New to Irish List.
1913. FRIEND.—/rish Oligochaets. 9
* 7, Enchytraeus albidus, Henle.
Three fine, adult specimens. Length averaging 12 mm., with 40
segments. This and the foregoing, when found in rich soil or manure
will often reach the length of 1 inch (or 25 mm.), but size is only of
relative value. Setae varying in different parts of the body as follows ;—
Front.—Four dorsal and 5 ventral.
Middle.—TYwo dorsal and 3 ventral.
Postertor.—Usually 3 dorsal and ventral; but occasionally 2 or 4,
Yhus it frequently happens that the sets in the mid region contain the
smallest number, whereas in many species the posterior end has the fewest.
Sperm-funnel 5-6 x I, narrow and long with clearly marked neck.
Duct large and stout, confined to segments 12-13, or 14. Very large
pores on xii., but no well-marked atrial gland within.
8. Fridericia Michaelseni, Bretscher.
Already reported for Poyntzpass. Setae 6 per set in front. Salivaries
tong and branched. Spermathecae with 2 diverticula and fairly long
slender ducts. No glands at 4/5 opening. Rather stout and somewhat
long ducts to the sperm-funnels in xii.
+9. Henlea glandulosa, sp. n.
Length 10-12 mm., segments 35. Setae 4-6 per bundle, those in the
anterior part of the body similar to Fridericia, 7.e., shortest in the middle.
Three pairs of septals in the typical positions 4/5, 5/6, 6/7 ; the hindmost
pair large. Girdle cells small. Very large glands at xii., with large
pores ; funnel 2 x 1, with large duct, irregularly coiled. Coelomic cor-
puscles large and discoid. No oesophageal glands, intestine enlarged
in 7, dorsal vessel arising in ftont of septum 7/8. Head small, as well as
brain, which (as usual in Henlea) is about 1$ x 1, and slightly indented
behind. Gizzard large. Dorsal vessel irregularly branched in segment
4, and pulsing in 7, 6, 5. Spermathecae with glands, but no distinct
ampulla. The anteseptal of the nephridia small, and the post-septal
large. No salivaries seen. See figures on next page.
In a Monograph of the Genus Henlea, now in the hands of the Sec.,
R.M.S., I have described something like a score of British species, but,
so far as I can gather, not one of them agrees with this description, though
* New to Poyntzpass List.
t New to Science.
a3
10 ._ The lrish Naturalist. — January,
it closely resembles H. marina, Friend, in many particulars. It will be
seen to differ from H. hibernica, Southern, and H. nasuta, Eisen, in the
matter of oesophagéal glands. The following Table will afford some
mt
Fig. 2
Fic. 1.—Spermatheca (sp.) of Henlea glandulosa. Ep. epidermis. G.
Glands at 4/5 opening. Jnt. Intestine into which spermathecae open.
Fic. 2.—Brain of Henlea glandulosa with attachments.
Fic. 3.—Dorsal blood vessels of Henlea panewe eee showing double
branching in segment 4, not symmetrical.
1913. FRIEND.—J/7rish Oligochaets. Ir
idea of the position of our new species in relation to others already known
to occur in Great Britain :—
Two pairs of spermathecae .. # .. H. puteana.
. One pair of spermathecae .. % des Zs
iv Oesophageal glands present - .. H, habernica.
on Oesophageal glands absent .. ofe ty. z
{ Setae not exceeding five per bundle ws 4.
\ Setae exceeding five per bundle ee 3. 5.
{ Three pairs septal glands .. nd Ye 5:
“| Four pairs septal glands... ne .. H. tenella.
_ J Spermathecae without 4/5 glands .. i. Curtosa.
Spermathecae with 4/5 glands S .. H. glandulosa.
We thus have the remarkable number of thirteen species
of Oligochaets, some represented by a dozen or more
specimens, in two or three ounces of earth. The complete
list is as follows :—
ENCHYTRAEIDAE,
1. Henlea glandulosa, Friend. 6. Fridericia bisetosa, Levinsen.
2. Enchytraeus albidus, Henle. Fe Michaelseni, Bretscher.
3. pellucidus, Friend. &. helvetica, Bretscher.
4. minimus, Bretscher. . g. Achaeta spermatophora, Friend
5. Bucholzii, Vejdovsky.
LUMBRICIDAE,
10. Dendrobaena subrubicunda, 12. Allolobophora caliginosa,
Eisen. Savigny.
11. Aporrectodea chlorotica, 13. Lumbricus rubellus,
Savigny. Hoffmeister.
I have to acknowledge the aid of a Government Grant
through the courtesy of the Royal Society, for these re-,
searches.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
1.—Friend. Ivish Naturalist, September, 1912, pp. 171-174.
2.—Friend. ‘‘ British Enchytraeids,”’ 6 R.M.S., 1912. Several papers,
still in process of publication.
3.—Friend. The Naturalist, March, 1912.
4.—Southern. Ivish Naturalist, 1907, vol. 16.
5-—Southern. Proc. Roy. Ir. Acad., 1909, vol. xxvii., Section B, pp.
119, et seq.
6. Michaelsen. Das Tierreich, Oligochaeta, 1900.
Swadlincote, Burton-on-Trent,
I2 The lritsh Naturatist. January,
SOME NEW LOCALITIES FOR MARINE ALGAE.
BY J. ADAMS, M.A.
Some time ago I submitted a parcel of Algae collected
during several years from various parts of Ireland, to Mr.
A. D. Cotton, of Kew, who kindly named the rarer species
for me. Among these there appear to be three not
previously recorded from Ireland, namely, Enteromorpha
crinita, J. Ag.; Ascocyclus sphaerophorus, Sauv.; and
Callithamnton scopulorum, Ag.’ Particulars concerning the
distribution of some commoner species are also given, as some
of these though common on several parts of the coast are
entirely absent from several counties.
CHLOROPHYCEAE.,
Cladophora sericea, Kiitz.—Malahide, 18th June, 1909.
Enteromorpha crinita, J. Ag.—Killiney, 6th July, 1909.
PHAEOPHYCEAE.
Aiaria esculenta, Grev.—Killough, 12th August, 1905.
Ascocyelus sphaerophorus, Sauv.—Killough, 12th August, 1905
Castagnea Zosterae, Thur.—Ireland’s Eye, 13th July, 1904.
Chordaria flagelliformis, Ag.—Donaghadee, August, 1910.
Cystoseira granulata, Ag.—Larne Lough, 23rd September, 1904.
Ectocarpus siliculosus, Kiitz.—Killough, 12th August, 1905.
Litosiphon Laminariae, Harv.—Killough, 12th August, 1905.
Punctaria latifolia, Grev.—Near Howth, 30th May, 1904.
RHODOPHYCEAE.
Callithamnion seopulorum, Ag.—Howth Head, 11th June, 1904.
Callocolax neglectus, Schm.—Brown’s Bay, Island Magee, 17th Sept., 1904.
Ceramium rubrum, Ag.—Killough, 12th August, i905.
Colacolepis inerustans, Schm.—Larne Lough, 23rd September, 1904.
Delesseria rubens (Huds).—Donaghadee, August, 1g10.
Gelidium latifolium, Born.—Donaghadee, August, r1g1o.
Heterosiphonia plumosa, Batt.—Larne Lough, 23rd September, 1904.
Nitophyllum punctatum, Grev.—Donaghadee, August, 1910.
N. ramosum, Batt.—Donaghadee, August, 1910.
Odonthalia dentata, Lyngb.—Floated up at Killough, 12th August, 1905,
Phyllophora epiphylla, Batt.—Larne Lough, 23rd September, 1904.
* Since this paper was written Mr. A. D. Cotton’s paper on the Marine
Algae of Clare Island (Proc. R.I.A. vol. xxxi.) has appeared, mentioning
this species.
1913. AvAMs.—Localities for Marine Algae. 13
In the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, vol. i., 1853, there
is a paper by Geo. C. Hyndman, entitled ‘‘ Notes on the
Natural History of Tory Island.” At p. 37 there is a short
list cf Algae, and as this is not included in any of the
Bibliographies of Irish Algae it seems worth referring to. It
contains ten species. | Quoting the old names as they stand
these are as follows :—Fucus vesiculosus, F. nodosus, Hi-
manthalia lorea, Laminaria digitata, Rhodomenia laciniata,
Plocamium coccineum, Ptilota plumosa, Conferva rupestris,
Codium tomentosum, C. adhaerens? (according to Dr.
Harvey).
Royal College of Science, Dublin.
REVIEW,
MANX COLEOPTERA.
The Aquatic Coleoptera of the Isle of Man, with some remarks on the origin
of the Fauna. By F. BaLrour Browne, M.A. The Naturalist, March, 1911.
Bearing in mind the many points of similarity between the Manx and
the Irish faunas, this carefully-prepared paper should be of great use to
those interested in the distribution of Irish insects. According to the
author, the Isle of Man is a sufficiently productive collecting-ground for
water -beetles, there being plenty of streams and small ponds. The only
groups in which the island is deficient are those characteristic of lakes
and marshes. In all 92 specimens were found, chiefly the result of the
author’s researches, combined with notes made from the valuable local
collection formed by the late Dr. Bailey.
The paper contains some useful comparisons on the range in Great
Britain of many of our rarer species. Amongst these, perhaps, the most
interesting, from an Irish point of view, is Bidessus minutissimus, an
extremely local species, found for the first time in the Isle of Man by
Mr. Balfour Browne. Notes on the distribution of this species will be
found in the Ivish Naturalist for January, 1912.
The Irish localities for Gyrinus urinatoy are given as South Kerry, West
Cork, and Toome Bridge in county Antrim, where a single specimen
was taken by Mr. Welch. Of interest also in the local Octhebius Lejolisit,
a species which has now been traced on the sea-coasts of several of our
northern counties, and will probably be found all round the Irish littoral.
From a careful analysis of their respective faunas the author remarks
“there is a slight indication that the Manx water-beetles are more like
those of North-West England than those of either South-West Scotland or
North-East Ireland”’ (p. 158).
ie ER
14 The Lrish Naturalist. _ January,
IRISH SOCIETIES.
ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Recent arrivals include a large male Chimpanzee, deposited by the Hon.
Walter Rothschild ; a Hoolock Gibbon, given by Dr. F. M. Falkiner; a
Macacque Monkey, deposited ; a pair of Black Spider Monkeys, purchased;
a Grey Ichneumon, given by Mr. M. Jones; a Kinkajou, purchased ; a
Badger, given by Mr. A. Gorges; two Guinea-pigs, given by Mr. Wesley
Field ; a pair of Alpine Marmots, purchased ; Rabbits, given by Messrs. A.
Molloy and Geo. Bingham, and Mrs. Kinsella ; Golden-headed Troupials,
Brazilian Hangnests, and Bearded Tits, purchased ; a Roseate Cockatoo,
given by Mrs. Kinsella; a Barn Owl, given by Rev. C. Halahan ; a Grey
Parrot deposited; and a Burmese Hawk Eagle, given by Dr. F. M.
Falkiner.
Mr. Rothschild’s Chimpanzee, ‘Tom’ by name, is the largest ape
ever shown in the Zoological Gardens, measuring between 4 and 5 feet in
height. He is in excellent health, very active, and friendly. The new
fish-hatchery is now in working order. At present there are 8,000 salmon
eggs in the boxes, and a large consignment of trout eggs is expected
shortly. Mr. W. S. Green, C.B., Inspector of Fisheries, lectured to a
large audience in the Royal Dublin Society’s Theatre on December 12th,
taking ‘‘ Irish Fisheries’’ as an appropriate subject.
BELFAST NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB.
OCTOBER 31.—CONVERSAZIONE IN THE ASSEMBLY BUILDINGS.—Over
300 members and visitors were present in the large hall. A large number
of exhibits were on view during the evening, including the following :—
Models illustrating insects injurious to agricultural and forest crops, lent
by the Belfast Municipal Museum. F. BaLtFrour BROWNE: drawings
illustrating points of interest in the life-history of water-beetles. FF. C.
FortH: entomological and botanical specimens. William GRAY: cornea
of an insect’s eye, its multiple images. Nevin H. Foster: living Wood-
lice, and a short account of these animals printed, of which copies were
distributed. Joseph MAXWELL and William DuNcAN: living examples of
Stephanoceros Eichornii found in a brick-pond at Oldpark. R. WELCH:
living Irish land and freshwater snails. A. W. STELFOX ; living examples
of Irish slugs, including Limax cinereo-niger from Drumbo Glen, a new
record for Co. Down ; also living snails from Algeciras, and living mille-
pedes from Burmah. R. H. WHITEHOUSE: pond-dwellers in aquaria, and
some specimens of Salamandva maculosa and Lacerta viridis, lent by
Professor Gregg Wilson. J. HAMILTON: Caterpillars of Bombyx cecropia.
N. CARROTHERS: Lathyrus palustyvis from Ellis’s Cut, Co. Down,
and other plants. .S. A. BENNETT: plants collected by pupils of
Campbell College in the grounds. Rev. C. H. WADDELL: plants which are
rare in Co. Down, Orchis pyramidalis found at Greyabbey being noteworthy.
H. L. Orr: cases illustrating the fruiting of various local trees. W. H.
PHILLIPS: a fine collection of British Ferns, printed from life. W. J. C.
TomMLinson: plants collected in the vicinity of Weymouth. <A. W.
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STELFOX: living plants of Savifraga oppositifolia, Silene acaulis, Avenaria
verna, Dryas octopetala, and Orobanche rubra, collected recently at Bene-
venagh, Co. Derry, accompanied by maps giving their Britannic dis-
tribution, by photographs showing their habitats, and by photos illustrative
of the habitats of alpine plants in Ireland and Norway. Robert BELL ;
crystalline gypsum, new to the district, from Ballymurphy brickworks,
A. M‘I. Clelland: photographs and specimens from the Auvergne
district, France. Dr. A. R. DWERRYHOUSE: relief maps of Belfast
district, illustrating contour of the ground and the relation of the
surface drainage to the slope of the country ; also rocks from the Isle of
Arran, some of which have already been recognised in the glacial drift of
the North of Ireland, and were collected with the object of determining
whether or no other Arran rocks have contributed to our drift deposits.
W. J. FENNELL: specimens of smoky quartz crystals, of Mourne granite,
chalcedony, Iceland spar, gypsum, glauconite, &c. In the miscellaneous
section were some rush crosses and harvest bows from Co. Antrim, ex-
hibited by Miss Elizabeth ANDREws. T. W. DUNLOP: collection of ancient
stone instruments from the Tertiary gravels of N.W. Texas, and similar
specimens from Irish gravel pits. Robert May: old Irish rushlight and
candle holders ; toasters of various types were shown, also a bore of a Red
Deer found during excavations at the new premises for Messrs. Coates &
Co., Belfast. Canon LETT: a stone froni Dromore, known as “‘ St. Colman’s
Pillow.”’ For many years it has been in the graveyard of Dromore
Cathedral, and is now in Canon Lett’s charge. Charles BuLLA: a “‘ baton
du commandment,” and some old linen stamps, about eighty years old.
W. H. Patterson : glass slag from the site of the old glasshouse at Bally-
castle, fragments of pottery from the site of extinct pottery works near
Larne Harbour, and objects of flint from the bed of the River Shesk, at
Ballycastle.
Various photographs were shown by A. Morris, S. N. Douey, Adam
Speers, A. M‘I. Cleland, G. W. Shaw, and R. Welch. F. J. Bigger had a
collection of coloured shields with decorative devices from the early
crosses of County Down; also drawings and photographs of Castle Sean.
At nine o’clock a lantern display was given, at which views illustrating
the summer excursions of the Club were shown by F. J. Bigger, S. H.
Douey, W. A. Green, D. J. Hogg, H. L. Orr, S. Wear, and R. J. Welch.
Previous to the lantern display the President addressed the meeting, and
welcomed the country members and friends of the Club. Canon Lett said
that in this their fiftieth year they have two original members exhibiting, a
remarkable testimony to the study of natural science as a healthy recrea-
ion. The average attendance at the summer excursions was forty-two,
a distinct improvement on 1911—and, although the summer of the past
year was a wet one, rain never interfered with any of the excursions. The
working of the junior section promises to be a success. The celebration
of the fiftieth anniversary of the Club’s foundation will be held next May.
A good programme has been arranged, and it is expected that many
delegates from our sister clubs in England will attend the meeting. The
election of eight new members—Miss D. Forth, Miss H. Ledgerwood, and
Messrs. R. M‘Creary, J. W. Dunlop, N. J. Ledgerwood, R. Long, S. M.
Macoun, and R. J. Wright—terminated the meeting.
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DUBLIN NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB.
NOVEMBER 12.—CONVERSAZIONE.—The Twenty-seventh Winter Session
was opened on Tuesday, November 12th, with a conversazione in the
Royal Irish Academy House. 76 members and visitors attended, a decrease
of 33 on the numbers present at the corresponding function for last year.
In the unavoidable absence of the President, the chair was taken by the
Vice-President, N. Colgan, M.R.I.A., who welcomed the visitors and
the members of the Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club that were present. A
lecture was given by Professor G. H. CARPENTER, B.Sc., M.R.I.A., on
various microscopic objects of biological interest, which he illustrated by
lantern projections. At the close of the lecture the Vice-President drew
attention to the present condition of the Club, and made an earnest appeal
for new members.
A large number of exhibits were on show during the evening, of which
the principal are given in the following list :—-J. ApAms, M.A.: (a) Diatoms
from the Kieselguhr deposit at Toome Bridge; (l) Hairs on the leaf
of Deutzia. FE. C. R. ARmMstTrRoNG, M.R.I.A.: Some types of Stone
Implements. C. F. Batt: Hybrids of Saxifraga umbrosa and
Saxifraga Gzum. Richard M. Barrineton, LL.B., F.L.S., M.R.1A.:
Some Irish specimens of the large race of Wheatear, Oenanthe leucorhoa,
Irish Wrynecks, and Barred Warblers. N. CoLtGan, M.R.J.A.: Micro-
scopic slides illustrative of the tongues of the Mollusca, and the dermal
deposits of the Holothuroidea. G. P. Farran, B.A., M.R.1.A.: Echino-
derms from deep water off the West Coast of Ireland. <A. C. FoRBEs,
M.R.I.A.: (a) Radiophotographs of wood: (6) Microscopic sections of
wood. W.F. Gunn: Some Photo-micrographs of seeds. J. N. HALBERT,
M.R.I.A.: (a) Some exotic Bird-butterflies (Ornithoptera); (b) a few
interesting insects from Clare Island. T. Hartissy, B.A., M.R.I.A.:
(a) Erratics from the drifts of Co. Wexford ; (5) some fossils from Kil-
torcan ; (c) Rock-specimens from the interbasaltic zone, Co. Antrim.
J. DE W. Hincw: Shells and erratics from the deposits of North Mayo.
Miss M. C. KNOWLES: Wax models of some common flowers. A. R.
NicHots, M.A., M.R.I.A.: (a) Two Little Auks, captur d in Co. Dublin,
Februarv, 1912; (b) Birds’ nests from Sierra Leone. A. Roycrort: (a)
Carboniferous fossils from St. Doulagh’s, Co. Dublir ; (b) Striated lime-
stone boulder from Benhead Marl. C. M. SELBIE, B.Sc.: Living Tree-
frogs (Hyala arborea). R. SOUTHERN, B.Sc., M.R.I.A.: Irish Marine
Worms. Miss J. STEPHENS, B.Sc.: (a) Living Lizards; (b) Deep-sea
Sponges. S. G. WILD: Curious and interesting Plants. Miss EpitH H.
WILson: (a) Skeletons of Pigeon, Frog, Weasel, and Carp; (b) Prepared
Fish ; (€) Mounted Dragon-fly and Locust; (d) Brazil Nut. Miss F. M.
POLLOCK: Sparrow-hawk’s Eggs. R. CLARK: (a) Upper Silurian Fossils
from Clogher, Co. Down ; (b) Comic Sketch by the late Mr. E. T. Hardman ;
(c) Photographs of past Officers of the Geological Survey of Ireland.
R. Li. PRAEGER, B.A., B.E., M.R.I.A.: Geological Skit, by the late Mr.
W. H. Baily. R. Wetcu, M.R.I.A.: Land and Freshwater Shells, Irish
and British.
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DECEMBER 10.—W. F. GuNN (Piesident) in the chair. Thirty-two
members and visitors were present. Officers and Members of Committee
having been nominated for the coming year, T. Hallissy opened a discussion
on the present condition of the Club, in which the President, Miss Conan,
Prof. Carpenter, and Messrs. Halbert, Barrington, Praeger, and Dunlop
also took part. At the close of the meeting a number of interesting exhibits
were shown, demonstrations in every case being given by the exhibitors.
J. N. HaLBert exhibited a ground beetle, Platyderus ruficollis, new to
Ireland; C. M. SELBIE, a specimen of the deep-sea decapod, Polycheles
granulatus ; R. LL. PRAEGER, some hybrid Saxifrages; W. F. Gunn,
statoblasts of Cristatella mucedo, a fresh-water Polyzoan; N. Corcan,
radulae of Marine Mollusca, and spicules of holothurians.
DUBLIN MICROSCOPICAL CLUB.
NOVEMBER 13.—The Club met at Leinster House, D. M‘ARDLE (Vice-
President) in the chair.
W. F. Guwnw exhibited seed of Cinevaria cruenta, the well known and
extensively-grown greenhouse plant, belonging to the order Composite,
It is a native of the Canary Islands, and was introduced to cultivation
in 1777. The seeds were shown by reflected light under a magnification
of 24-5 diameters (14-inch objective). They are roughly cylindrical in
form, tapering slightly at one end with rather prominent ridges running
longitudinally from top to bottom. Between these ridges, in perfect
specimens, are two rows of scales which in appearance closely resemble
those on the wings of butterflies and moths, and these were the append-
ages to which particular attention was drawn. They are apparently
modified hairs, which are so often found on the seeds of other genera of
this order. Being perfectly white in colour they show up distinctly on
the black or dark brown surface of the seed.
D. M‘ARDLE showed one of the foliose group of the Hepaticae, Cepha-
lozia connivens Dicks. The whole plant, which was in fruit, isof a very
delicate and fragile structure, and excepting the stem which is about one
inch long and eight cells thick, all the other parts consist of rows of single
cells. The stem is frequently flagelliferous, bearing copious root-hairs
which convey moisture to the delicate plant body. The leaves are sub-
orbiculate in shape, divided to one-third from apex, segments acuminate,
connivent, cell-walls thick, leaves all decurrent. The bracts
surrounding the perianth in three pairs, the inner twice as long as the
jeaves, divided into three or five subulate segments, the perianth is pyri-
form in shape, ciliate at the mouth, calyptra very short and delicate,
capsule oblong, globose. The species is evenly distributed in wet bogs
through Ireland, found also in England, Scotland, the Continent, and in
North America.
Prof. G. H. CARPENTER showed specimens of Glyciphagus domesticus,
a tyroglyphid mite, which he had received in a sample of oatmeal from
Co. Cork, drawing attention to the elegantly slender legs and the deli-
cately plumose bristles which characterise this species. It is a widely
distributed store-house “ guest’”’ in Great Britain, and is probably of
general occurrence in Ireland,
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NOTES.
BOTANY.
Irish Water-plants.
From some notes made by Professor Hugo Glick, of Heidelberg, in
Ireland last year, and recently received from him, I extract the following ;—
Ranunculus Flammula var. alismifolius Glaab.—Rosslare, Co. Wexford,
with FR. hederaceus; at Weir Bridge, near Tuam, N.E. Galway.
Oenanthe fluviatilis, Colem.—Weir Bridge, N.E. Galway (f. swbmersa and
also half submerged forms).
Utricularia ochroleuca, Hartm.—-Sparingly in Glendalough Lake, Recess
(deep-water form), and between Recess Hotel and Station (shallow-
water form), W. Galway.
Alisma Plantago x ranunculotdes.—Turlough Bog, near Tuam, and between
Turlough Bog and Tuam, N.E. Galway.
Alisma vanunculoides f. zostervifolius Fr.—-Near Recess, W. Galway, and
near Tuam, N.E. Galway.
R. Li. PRAEGER.
Dublin.
Ammi majus in County Down.
A colony of about twenty individuals of this plant was discovered in
June, 1912, in the County of Down, near Strangford Lough, by an English
botanist, Dr. F. W. Stansfield, of Reading. Some of the plants
were in flower, and I had the pleasure of exhibiting a young plant from
the locality to the members of the Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club, at
their meeting on the 19th of November. The leaves of this plant bear a
great resemblance to the fronds of Pteris serrulata, and the likeness was
distinct in the young plant, which might easily have been taken fora
young fern of the above species. The leaves are different from those of
any other Umbellifer found in the British Islands, being bi- to tri-primately
parted into oblong or oblanceolate acutely serrulate leaflets. It grows in
sandy soil, and has a very long tap root. Ammzi majus is noticed in the
second edition of ‘‘ Cybele Hibernica,”’ p. 490, as follows :—‘* Portmarnock
Sands,'r 821.—Mack. Cat.—Seen here for several years in succession, by Mr.
John Bain. A casually introduced plant of Southern Europe, which has
long since disappeared.’’ It does not seem to have been found elsewhere
in Ireland, as there is no mention of it in Praeger’s Ivish Topographical
Botany. It is remarkable that Ammi majus, which is a native of the
Mediterranean littoral, has been found in County Down, growing not very
far from: another plant, also a native of the shores of the Mediterranean,
viz., Glyceria festucaeformis. Concerning this Glyceria there was some
correspondence in the Ivish Naturalist, 1904, pp. 72, 79, where I advocated
the view that the grass had probably been introduced with barley imported
to Comber distillery from a Mediterranean port ; it is curious aow to find
another plant from that region established in County Down.
H. W. Lett,
Loughbrickland, Co. Down.
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Plants of Antrim and Down.
Mr. A. W. Stelfox has sent me recently two plants which are worthy of
notice in these pages. One is Saxifraga umbrosa, “ from a glen 2} miles
N.N.E. of Hillsborough. It was in as natural a habitat as could possibly
be imagined, but, as you will see, it is a garden variety of the species.’’
This station matches one reported by Mr. Thomas Greer for Saxifraga Geum
—-a wild, small glen in Co. Tyrone, along one edge of which, however, a
road ran. Both these Saxifrages. are often grown in gardens, and they
possess great vitality, so that a piece thrown down may with luck take root
and grow; probably these facts help to account for their occurrence in
several places where they cannot be considered native. Mr. Stelfox’s
other plant is Arctostaphylos Uva-urst, which he reports as growing in
some quantity on the side of a gully on Agnew’s Hill, Co. Antrim. The
Bear-berry is extremely rare in the north-east, and had not been seen there
for over seventy years till re-discovered by Mr. Lilly (a single colony) at
Skerrywhinny, in 1908.
RK. Exc; “PRAEGER;
Dublin.
ZOOLOGY.
Formalin as an Insecticide.
Owing to the remarkable efficiency of formaldehyde as a germicide
and fungicide, some experiments were made in the plant houses of this
College to determine its insecticidal power. Various solutions of Schering’s
formalin ‘in water were used, giving graded strengths of formaldehyde
from .o1 to 2 per cent. These were sprayed over plants infected with
green fly and mealy-bug. The results showed that any efficacy formalin
might possess as an insecticide was more than counterbalanced by its
injurious action on the plants.
J. CHARLES JOHNSON.
University College, Cork.
The Medicinal Leech in Ireland.
Dr. Scharff, in an article on ‘“‘ The Irish Freshwater Leeches’”’ (Irish
Naturalist, vol. vii., 1898), refers to the occurrence of the Medicinal
Leech (Hirudo medicinalis) 1 Lough Mask, in 1849. The writer
has recently had occasion to refer to an article by P. L. Simmonds on
“The Trade in Leeches,”’ in the Pharmaceutical Journal (3), i., 1870
(pp. 521-2), in which the following statement is made :—‘‘ Lord Desart
lately let a piece of marsh land of about 40 acres on his estate near Callan,
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Wexford, to a company of Frenchmen, who immediately fenced it in and,
having freely irrigated it from an adjoining stream, proceeded to sow it
down under a leech crop. The seed, if we may so express it, was contained
in sacks, each aes 15,000 leeches, which were scattered from the hand
just as corn is sown.’
It would be very interesting to know the subsequent history of this
leech ‘‘farm.’’ Dr. Scharff states that his efforts to obtain an Irish speci-
men of the Medicinal Leech have been fruitless. This locality might prove
fruitful if carefully searched. Ifthe species is found there, a careful record
should be made of the colour pattern for comparison with the plates in
Ebrard’s ‘‘ Sangsues Médicinales ” (1857), where local varieties are care-
fully described, and thus a clue to their probable origin be obtained.
Of course, this is ‘‘ counting the chickens before they are hatched,” but
until last year it was thought that the Medicinal Leech was extinct in
England. My friend, Mr. Wm. N. Blair, has recently obtained several
specimens from the New Forest.
H, WHITEHEAD.
Toynbee Hall, London, E.
Common Eider Duck in Co, Wexford.
An immature male Common Eider Duck (Somateria mollissima), shot
on the south end of the South Slob, Wexford Harbour, on the 12th
November, 1912, has been sent to the Dublin Museum by Colonel J. J.
Perceval.
This Duck is a rare straggler to Ireland, chiefly to the northern coast,
and Mr. Ussher, in Birds of Ireland, only mentions two specimens from
Co. Wexford, one obtained previously to 1834 and the other in 1876.
The first nesting of the Common Eider in Ireland (Co. Donegal) has
recently been announced in British Birds.
A. R. NICHOLS.
National Museum, Dublin.
Siberian Skylark in Co. Cork.
Dr. Hartert, of Tring, has most kindly examined for me some Skylarks
obtained from Irish light-stations, and has detected amongst them a
specimen of Alauda arvensis cinerea, killed striking at the Old Head of
Kinsale, Co. Cork, October 7th, 1910. ‘The only other British record of
this lark from Western Siberia is the Scottish specimen from the Flannan
Islands, obtained February 24th, 1906 (W. Eagle Clarke, in Ann. Scot.
Nai. Hist,’ 1906, “p: 139):
R. M. BARRINGTON.
Fassaroe, Bray.
February, 1913. The Lrish Naturalist. ‘OI
BOTANISTS OF THE NORTH OF IRELAND.
BY REV. CANON H. W. LETT, M.A., M.R.IA:
(Presidential Address to the BELFAST NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB,
19th November, 1912.)
THE botanists of whom this paper treats are those whose
botanical work was carried on in the northern part of
Ireland, or who were natives of the province of Ulster.
Of these several will be mentioned whose names have not
hitherto appeared in any published list of the botanists
of Great Britain and Ireland. And a few particulars will
be added to what has been already recorded concerning
others who have long since obtained a place amongst the
botanists of the North of Ireland.
Sir Hans Sloane, one of the most distinguished men
whom the County Down has produced, was born at Killy-
leagh in 1660. His library and natural history collections,
bequeathed to the nation, became the nucleus of the
British Museum. A full account of his life will be found
in Sir W. Jardine’s ‘‘ Memoir of Sir Hans Sloane,” and in
the ‘‘ Dictionary of National Biography.”
There was a contemporary of Sloane’s who if anyone
ever did, deserves to be reckoned as a botanist: this was
Siv Arthuy Rawdon, born 1662, died 1695, grandfather of the
celebrated Earl of Moira, and ancestor of the present
Marquess of Hastings. He built a residence at Moira,
in Co. Down, where he had extensive gardens with ‘* walks,
vistoes, a labyrinth, canals, ponds, and groves,” laid out
in the fashion of the time around it. In all this he was
inspired and encouraged by Sloane’s consignments and
distributions of foreign plants, and he sent out his own
gardener, one James Harlowe, to Jamaica to bring from
thence some exotic trees and plants for the gardens at
Moira. There is no record of the result of this experiment.
But Rawdon sought for trees in more temperate regions ;
and Walter Harris, in his ‘‘ History of the County Down,”
which was published in 1744, gives the names of nine trees
and plants that were then remaining and growing well in
the Moira Demesne. And thirty years ago there were three
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of the rare trees still in existence. While one of the plants,
the Acorus Calamus or Sweet-scented Flag, which had
been planted in Sir Arthur’s ponds has disappeared, together
with the ponds, it has taken up its abode in the long
level of the Ulster Canal, between Moira and Blaris, as
our local botanists well know. Sir Arthur is quite forgotten
at Moira, not a trace of his mansion remains, while of his
beautiful gardens the only thing left now are the depressions
where formerly were the ponds and canals.
As a further proof of Sir Arthur having been a botanist,
I may mention, that William Sherrard, who died in 1728,
visited Sir Arthur Rawdon at Moira, from which he ex-
plored the Mourne Mountains, and the shores of Lough
Neagh.
John Templeton was born in Belfast in 1766, where he
died and was buried in 1825. In any notice of North
of Ireland botanists a prominent place must be assigned
to his name and work. His life was short, but strenuous.
He lived in an age when the study of botany was making
progress in Great Britain, and in the investigation of the
plants of Ireland he gave much assistance to several British
authors in whose works it is duly acknowledged, but he
himself published very little.
However, he had intended to publish a ‘“‘ Flora Hi-
bernica’’ and he had the work well in hand. The manu-
script and drawings for this are still in existence, and are
evidence of his painstaking researches and industry. He
aimed to make his work as perfect as was possible, and
when some of his friends urged him to complete and publish
his ‘‘ Flora”’ it was his diffidence that held him back.
The authors whom Templeton helped by sending them
specimens, were :—Sir James Edward Smith in “ English
Botany ”’ and “‘ Flora Britannica,’ Louis Weston Dillwyn
in ‘‘ British Confervae,’”’ Dawson Turner in “ British Fuci”
and ‘‘ Muscologia Hibernica,” Dubourdieu’s “‘ Histories of
Antrim and Down,” and Sampson’s “‘ History of London-
derry.”
The MSS. left by Templeton consist of seven volumes.
One of these is a small 8vo. half bound ; it is in the Library
of the Royal Irish Academy, and contains 280 pp. of lists
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of Cryptogams, chiefly mosses, with their localities. In
this book is inserted a letter from Miss F. M. More, sister
of Alexander Goodman More, to Dr. Edward Perceval
Wright, Secretary, Royal Irish Academy, dated March,
1897, in which she says—‘*‘ The Manuscript which accom-
panies this letter was drawn up between 1794 and 1810,
by the eminent naturalist, John Templeton, in Belfast.
It was lent by his son, Dr. R. Templeton, to my brother,
Alex. G. More, when he was preparing the second edition
of the ‘ Cybele Hibernica,’ on condition that it should be
placed in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy after-
wards.”
The other six volumes are quarto size, and contain
1,090 folios, with descriptions of many of the plants, and
careful drawings in pen and pencil and colours of many
species. They are now lent to the Belfast Museum.
About ten years ago I spent a week in examining these
volumes, and as their contents have hitherto never been
fully described, I would like to give an epitome of my
investigation of them.
Vol. 1.—Phanerogams, 186 folios, with 15 coloured
figures, and 6 small drawings in the text.
Vol. Il.—Fresh-water Algae, 246 folios, 71 of which are
coloured.
Vol. Wl.—Marine Algae, 212 folios, of which 79 are
coloured figures. At the end of this volume are 3 folios
of Mosses, the pagination of which runs with the rest of
this volume, but it is evident they had at some time been
misplaced.
Vol. 1V.—Fungt, 112 folios.
Vol. V.—Mosses, 117 folios, of which 20 are coloured, and
also 73 small drawings in the text.
Vol. VI.—Mosses and Hepatics. 117 folios are Hepatics,
40 of which are in colours ; 96 folios are Mosses, of which 39
are full-page coloured figures; and in addition there are
3 small coloured drawings in the text. |
All these drawings were executed by Templeton himself,
they are every one most accurately and beautifully drawn;
and the colouring is true to nature and artistically finished;
those of the mosses and hepatics being particularly good.
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Templeton is not mentioned in Tate’s ‘‘ Flora Bel-
fastiensis,’ published in 1863, at Belfast. The earliest
published reference to his MSS. is in the “* Flora of Ulster,”
by Dickie, published in 1864, where there is this indefinite
allusion—‘* To the friends of the late Mr. Templeton I
am indebted for permission to take notes of species recorded
in his manuscript.” The MS. was most likely the small
volume now in the Royal Irish Academy Library.
In the introduction to the “*‘ Flora of the North-east of
Ireland”’ (1888), there is a brief biographical sketch of
Templeton, but no mention of any MS. However, in a
‘‘ Supplement” to the Flora (1894), there is this note—
‘* Templeton, John, four volumes of his ‘ Flora Hibernica’
at present deposited with the Belfast Natural History and
Philosophical Society, contain much original matter, which
could not be worked out in time for the present paper.”
This fixes the approximate date of the MSS. being loaned
to the Belfast Museum. They were not known to the
authors of the ‘‘ Cybele Hibernica’”’ in 1866, while in the
second edition (1898) the small volume of the MSS. in
R.1.A. Library is described in the Index of Authors under
its full title—Catalogue of the Native Plants of Ireland, by
John Templeton, A.L.s.
Rt. Rev. Richard Mant, pD.D., son of Rev. Richard Mant,
born at Southampton, 12th February, 1776, died at Bally-
money, Co. Antrim, 1848, and was buried at Hillsborough.
He had been a Scholar of Winchester, and then Fellow of
Oriel, Oxford, and in 1820 became Bishop of Killaloe,
and in 1823, Bishop of Down, and lived at Holywood in a
residence now incorporated with the Palace Barracks.
He was distinguished as a divine and commentator on the
Bible, an accomplished preacher, and a sacred poet. From
his college days he was a keen botanist, and was familiar
with all our native plants. There is a good life-sized
portrait of him in Culloden House, Cultra. .
My father, who was one of his examining chaplains,
used to tell a good anecdote about Mant and a Belfast
gentleman; one day after dinner as the party strolled
round the garden, the Bishop’s Presbyterian friend plucked
a leaf of the plant Aegopodium Podagraria, and presenting
i913. Lerr.—Botanists of the North of Ireland. 25
it asked :—‘* Mr. Bishop, how is it that my gardener tells me
that the worst weed he has to contend with is ‘ Bishop’s
Weed’ ?” ‘* And” replied Dr. Mant—‘‘ My gardener says
the most troublesome weed in my garden is called * Elder-
weed’ ””’!
The Very Rev. Holt Waring, born 1766 and died 1850,
who was rector of Shankill and Lurgan, and Dean of
Dromore, had a most delightful garden at his residence,
Waringstown House, close to the village of the same name
in Co. Down. There was in it a choice collection of rare
trees and shrubs, and hardy foreign as well as native plants,
and there was also a fine rock-garden in one part of it,
with a large collection of hardy Ferns, and a pond for
choice aquatics. A peculiarity of the whole was that every
plant had a legibie label with the proper scientific name.
I saw it sixty-five years ago when it was in its perfection ;
it was my first introduction to a good collection of Ferns,
and till quite recently I never saw a better. This garden
flourished till the end of the last century.
There was a family named Hancock, long resident in
Lisburn, one of whom, Dr. Thomas Hancock, born in that
town in 1783, was a botanist and skilful physician, who
eventually settled in London.
George Dickie, born in Aberdeen in 1812, became Pro-
fessor of Natural History at Belfast in 1849. He returned
to his native city in 1860 as Professor of Botany in Aberdeen
University, and in 1864 he published his well-known and
useful little ‘‘ Flora of Ulster,’ where his botanical field work
in the North of Ireland is fully recorded. A short bio-
graphy of him appears in the “ Flora of the North-east of
Ireland.”
Rev. Wiliam Hind, a member of a well-known Belfast
family, born in Belfast 1815, died in Suffolk 1894, was curate
of Derryaghy, Co. Antrim, in 1839. His herbarium of
British plants is in the herbarium of Trinity College,
Dublin.
Professor Ralph Tate, F.L.S., born at Alnwick, Northum-
berland, and died in Igor at Adelaide, South Australia.
Author of ‘‘ Flora Belfastiensis,” published in 1863, which
gives the results of his investigations of the plants in Down
26 The lish Naturalist. February,
and Antrim, within a radius of fifteen miles from Belfast.
He taught for many years natural science classes which the
Government established in Belfast, and in 1863 in con-
junction with a number of his pupils founded the Belfast
Naturalists’ Field Club. A full account of this will be
found in the Ivish Naturalist, 1902.
Catherine Gage, born 1816, on Rathlin Island, where she
died 16th February, 1892, and is buried, took a great
interest in its native flora; she made a series of drawings,
correctly executed, of the greater part of the plants. Her
list of the plants is very complete, the Dicotyledons being
204, and the Monocotyledons 21; it was prepared for the
Botanical Society of Edinburgh, and an abstract was
published in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History
for the year 1850.
James R. Garrett, of Holywood, Co. Down, solicitor,
born 1820, died 1855, who is known to Belfast zoologists
as co-editor with Robert Patterson, of vol. iv. of
Thompson’s ‘‘ Natural History of Ireland,” in addition to
being a zoologist was a student of the plants of the North-
east of Ireland. He was one of the first fern-fanciers of
the district, and had at Holywood a fernery in which were
grown specimens of all our native ferns, with several of their
fancy varieties. J have now in my fernery two fine plants
of Lastrea Filix-mas var. cristata which originally came from
his garden.
Rev. Richard Oulton, born in 1812, at Cooldagh, near
Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, died at Holywood, in 1880, was
curate of St. Anne’s, Belfast, Chaplain to the Forces, and
Registrar to the Queen’s College. | He was a keen botanist,
and was intimate with the plants of the Counties Down,
Antrim, and Armagh, and knew all the localities for the
rarer species. He had formed a good herbarium of the local
plants, which twenty years after his death on the demise
of his widow, was sold, together with some other natural
history collections and his library, in Belfast.
In the second edition of ‘‘ Cybele Hibernica”’ (1898),
at p. 520, is the following correction of a notice of a very
rare plant that was omitted in error from its proper place in
the book—‘‘ Euphorbia. Peplis L. Garraris Cove, near
rio13; Luerr.—LBolanists of the North of Ireland. 27
Tramore, Waterford (Miss Trench); Mackay, 1859—and
spec. in Herb. Mackay in Trinity College, Dublin. First
found by Miss Trench in 1839, but not since seen, though
sought for by R. M. Barrington in 1870 and 1871, and by
H. C. Hart in 1882. No doubt extinct.” I may add that
the Rev. C. H. Waddell searched for this plant with me
in 1902, but we did not find it. The locality is two miles
south of Tramore, and the disappearance of the plant may
be accounted for by the removal every year of large quan-
tities of the beautiful gravel forming the beach and headlands
at the spot.
This lady, Helena Trench, born in Dublin 1820, died at
Kalliney 1908, and buried at Loughbrickland, was a
daughter of the Rev. F. S. and Lady Helena Trench. She
married Jeffrey Lefroy, Vicar of Aghaderg, and subsequently
Dean of Dromore. In early life she was an enthusiastic
botanist, and student of Irish and Continental plants,
the taste for which she had inherited from her mother.
Her large and well-preserved herbarium was given by her in
1885 on the death of her husband when the family left the
North of Ireland, to the Banbridge Young Men’s Christian
Association.
George Crawford Hyndman, born in Belfast 1796, died
at Belfast 1867, was a botanist as well as a conchologist.
On his death a large collection of his shells was purchased
for the town of Lurgan, where it still exists in the town hall.
He had an excellent herbarium, which passed to his nephew,
Mr. Hugh Hyndman, LL.p., and he was well acquainted
with the plants of Ulster.
Wiliam Thompson, born at Belfast, 2nd November,
1805, died in London, 17th February, 1852, author of the
‘* Natural History of Ireland,” gave attention not only to
the vertebrate and invertebrate animals (except Insecta
and Infusoria), but also to the vegetable kingdom in all its
various forms; he was truly a many-sided naturalist,
and may fairly be claimed as a botanist. Some departments
of cryptogamic botany gave exercise to his powers of
observation, as shown by his paper-—-‘‘ On a minute Alga,
which colours Ballydrain Lake,” and more especially by
the number of localities contributed by him to Professor
28 The [rish Naturalist. February,
Harvey’s splendid work, ‘* Phycologia Britannica.” Dickie
in the preface to the ‘*‘ Flora of Ulster’ acknowledges the
botanical memoranda of the late Mr. W. Thompson as having
furnished valuable information for the “ Flora,”’ in the pages
of which are numerous records of his collecting of various
plants. And in the Belfast Museum is a herbarium formed
by Thompson, which is of itself an enduring evidence
of his industry and research in the fruitful fields of botany.
An account of his life was published in the posthumous
vol. iv. of his ‘‘ Natural History of Ireland.”
David Moore, F.L.S., was born at Dundee 1807, and died
at Dublin 1879. He came to Ireland, one of those able
adventurous Scotchmen who have done so much for science
in this island, in 1828, as assistant to Jas. T. Mackay, the
director of Trinity College Botanic Gardens ; and in 1835
he received an appointment as botanist on the Ordnance
Survey of Ireland. The district which Moore surveyed
was County Londonderry and part of Antrim. His
discoveries are recorded in the ‘* Phytologist’ (1857), in
Colby’s ‘‘ County Derry,” in his own ‘‘ Synopsis of the
Mosses of Ireland,’ in the Proceedings of the Royal
Irish Academy (1872), and in his “ Report on Irish
Hepatice ” in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy
(1876). A brief biography will be found in the “‘ Flora of
the North-east of Ireland.”
Thomas Drummond, A.L.S., died at Havana, Cuba, 1835.
Came from Forfar on the formation of the Belfast Botanic
Gardens, of which he was the first curator. He did not
remain long in Belfast, but made good use of his time
collecting Mosses, which were subsequently published in a
folio without any letterpress under the title ‘* Musci
Scotici,” though a large number of the specimens are Irish.
There is a copy in the Belfast Museum Library.
Lady Kane, née Katherine Baily, born 11th March,
1811, died at Dublin 15th February, 1886, was authoress of
the ‘‘ Irish Flora,” Dublin, 1833. A considerable number
of plants are first recorded from Down and Antrim in this
volume.
Theobald Jones, ¥.L.S., Admiral, M.P. for Londonderry,
was born at Dublin, 1790, and died there 12th February,
1913. LET?T.— Botanists of the North of Lreland. 29
1868. He contributed papers on lichens to the Pyvo-
ceedings of the Dublin Natural History Society. His
large herbarium of Lichens is preserved in the National
Museum, Kildare Street, Dublin.
David Orr, engaged in Glasnevin Gardens under Dr.
Moore, 1854, retired 1882, died at Dublin 1892. He had
resided in Belfast, where he noted many plants, some
of them very rare mosses, as occurring in the district ; but
a suspicion of error has fallen upon a portion of his work,
and deprived it of the value it otherwise would have had.
‘*The Flora of the North-east of Ireland,” by Samuel
Alexander Stewart, ¥.B.S.E., A.L.S., and Thomas Hughes
Corry, F.B.S.E., F.L.S., published in 1888 by the Belfast
Naturalists’ Field Club, marks an epoch in the work of the
botanists of the North of Ireland. It contains the results
of the work of nearly all the botanists who have investi-
gated the plants of our district, and no ather part of
Ireland, except Co. Dublin, has as yet been so well examined.
T. H. Corry, born at Belfast in 1860, was drowned in
Lough Gill, Co. Sligo, 4th August, 1883, while exploring
for a botanical report, and with him his friend Mr.
Charles Dickson, a solicitor of Belfast, who was also an
enthusiastic botanist, and was helping in the investigation.
Mr. Corry was a diligent worker, and had already attained
a position amongst rising botanists beyond what his
twenty-three years seem to warrant. He was lecturer on
Botany in the University Medical and Science Schools,
Cambridge ; and assistant curator of the University Her-
barium.
Stewart was thus left to carry on the preparation of
the Flora for the press, and he took the greatest care in
testing every record that it was possible to test and to
confirm. This was a feature of his life. He never took
anything for granted, and therefore his botanical work is
thoroughly reliable. His care in this respect was so great
as occasionally to disturb some of his friends and helpers,
but it was a good quality. He contributed several im-
portant reports on Irish botany to the Proceedings of the
Royal Irish Academy.
AS
30 The lrish Naturalist. February,
A most interesting biographical sketch of Stewart’s life,
by Rev. C. H. Waddell, B.p., will be found in the Annual
Report and Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists’ Field
Club for IgI10-I1, pp. 410-434, and in the Irish Naturalist
for October, I910._ And in the same number of the Irish
Naturalist is a contribution by Mr. Praeger on Stewart’s
work, together with a complete list of his writings.
It is a tragic and remarkable coincidence that Stewart’s
death, like that of his coadjutor on the ‘‘ Flora of the
North-east of Ireland” was the result of an accident.
He died from injuries received by falling on the pavement
in Ann Street, Belfast, on 15th June, Igto.
Rev. Samuel Arthur Brenan, B.A., T.C.D., born 1837,
died 1908 at Cushendun and buried at Cushendall, was a
keen botanist, and never thought any trouble too much
or any walk too long in looking for a rare plant. He
worked principally amongst the flora of Antrim, Armagh,
and Tyrone, and contributed notes to the Journal of
Botany and Irish Naturalist, and specimens to other
workers. He left his herbarium to his friend, Mr. William
Hancock, who deposited it in the Belfast Museum.
Canon John Grainger, D.D., Rector of Skerry and Rath-
cavan, born 1830 at Belfast, died 1891 at Broughshane,
where he is buried, and who gave his immense collections,
of stone and metal antiquities and coins, geological specimens
insects, and shells, and library to the city of Belfast, though
best known as an antiquary and geologist, was also a
botanist. In the preface to ‘‘ Flora Belfastiensis,” the
author acknowledges the assistance he received from him
in the compilation of that book, and nothing gave him
greater pleasure than to return home from one of the
Naturalists’ Field Club excursions bringing something new
to add to his herbarium.
John Henry Davies, born at Penketh, near Warrington,
1838, died suddenly at Belfast zoth August, 1909, spent
the greater portion of his life in Ireland. In very early
life he developed a taste for botany, making a speciality of
mosses, and corresponding with Professor W. H. Harvey,
of Trinity College, Dublin, and William Wilson, of War-
rington. Specimens of Mosses collected by him in Wicklow
1913. Lert.—Zotanists of the North of Lreland. 31
and Kildare in 1857, in which neighbourhood he then lived,
are preserved in the herbarium of Trinity College. He
contributed papers on the Mosses of Antrim and Down to
the Phytologist and Irish Naturalist, from 1857 to 1907.
Henry Chichester Hart, B.A., F.L.S., was born at Raheny,
Co. Dublin, 29th July, 1847, and died at Carrablagh, on the
shores of Lough Swilly, 7th August, 1908. He did a very
large amount of field-work between 1873 and the end of
the century, parts of nearly every county in Ireland re-
ceiving his attention. He specialized in the Flora of Co.
Donegal. In Praeger’s ‘‘ Irish Topographical Botany ”
are listed fifteen papers on the plants of that county’s
botany alone, which he contributed to the Journal of
Botany and Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.
This material was eventually summarized in his well-known
‘* Flora of County Donegal.” <A short account of his life
and work, from the pen of his friend, R. M. Barrington,
appears in the Irish Naturalist for December, 1908.
Mrs. Mary Isabella Leebody, who died in 1911 at Lon-
donderry, did good botanical work for many years, and
added many records for the county in which she resided.
She is frequently mentioned in the Irish Naturalist.
Rev. George Robinson, M.A., Rector of Tartaraghan, Co.
Armagh, born 1824 (?) died 1894, was a careful and ardent
botanist, and contributed many records of the rarer plants
from Co. Armagh to Dickie’s ‘‘ Flora of Ulster.”
Rev. W. T. Whan is mentioned frequently in Dickie’s
‘* Flora”? as the collector of uncommon plants in counties
Armagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone.
Another botanist who contributed to Dickie’s records
was W. H. Ferguson, of Belfast, who was a pupil of his.
A friend of Dickie’s, William Millar, was a teacher 1n
Belfast, who had always been very desirous of promoting
a taste for botany among his private pupils. He had an
enthusiastic love for the native plants of his country.
Doctor Mateer was another Belfast botanist who also
helped by his own work to foster a love of the study of
botany. A Miss Maffet, of Belfast, is mentioned by Stewart
in the Introduction to the ‘‘ Flora of North-east Ireland.”’
32 The Lrish Naturalist: ; February
She appears to have been a botanist, but I have been unable
to discover anything about her.
Rev. William Somerville Smith, of Antrim, died I9g12,
was intimate with the littoral flora of Lough Neagh. He
published (1885) a little book—‘‘ Gossip about Lough
Neagh,” which gives the names of the plants that grow
around that lake.
James Townsend Mackay, A.L.S., M.R.I.A., was born at
Kirkcaldy, Fife, 1775, and died at Dublin 1862. He
published in the Tvansactions of Royal Irish Academy,
vol. xiv., 1825, ‘‘ Catalogue of Plants found in Ireland.”
In 1836 he published ‘‘ Flora Hibernica,” in which there
are many northern records of Phanerogams and Crypto-
gams.
Whitley Stokes, M.D., born at Waterford 1763, died at
Dublin 13th April, 1845, was a friend of Templeton’s, with
whom he collected plants in Ulster.
Robert Scott, M.p., died before 1813, discovered Di-
cranum Scotti at Swanlinbar. He worked at mosses of the
North of Ireland for Dawson Turner.
Edmund Murphy, 1828-65, landscape gardener, of Dub-
lin, contributed localities tor plants from several northern
counties, to Mackay’s ‘‘ Flora Hibernica.”’
Francis Wiutla, of Belfast, 1830-53, later of Dublin,
knew Irish plants well, and contributed to ‘“‘ Flora Hi-
bernica.”’
Richard Kennedy, a young and promising botanist,
found, in 1817, Hottonia palustris near Downpatrick.
[If any reader of these pages can supply any information
about any of the last-named thirteen botanists, I hope he
will communicate with the writer. |
Letitia Hannah Damer Sandys, born 1840, in the Isle of
Wight, and educated in America, came to Ireland, and
married Benjamin Nicholson White-Spunner, who became
Rector of Donaghmore, Co. Tyrone; she died 1911. She
was a naturalist of wide tastes, her speciality being botany.
She prepared and exhibited a herbarium in book-form of
the wild flowers of Ireland, which was exhibited at the
Chicago Exhibition ; this collection is now preserved by
her son, who resides in Co. Meath.
1913. Lutt.—Botanists of the North-of Ireland. 33
James Shanks, born 4th November, 1854, died 2nd
November, 1912, at Ballyfounder, near Portaferry, was an
intelligent and successful farmer, who for his recreation
studied the botany, archaeology, and geology of the district
of Little Ards, in County Down. He took a great interest
in the native plants of his locality, and every year exhibited
large collections of the wild flowers of the Ards at all the
local flower shows. He had made himself a pyramidal
revolving stand for these occasions, which held a great many
flowers, and enabled all to be easily examined by the
visitors. Mr. Shanks was ofa retiring and modest disposi-
tion, and never made a parade of his learning.
ADALARIA PROXIMA
AN ADDITION TO THE IRISH NUDIBRANCH FAUNA.
BY NATHANIEL COLGAN, M.R.I.A.
At the monthly meeting of the Dublin Microscopical
Club held on the 11th December last, Professor Bayley
Butler exhibited some living nudibranchs which he had
dredged the day before in about 2 fathoms in the Malahide
River. The specimens, which were handed over to me
for identification, included, in addition to gives puncti-
lucens, Gontodoris nodosa, and Eolis Drummondi, all
previously recorded for this locality, two small pale yellow
Dorids about Ir mm. in length. On a superficial exami-
nation of these I referred them, not without hesitation,
to Doris aspera of Alder and Hancock, a species which is
already on record for the Malahide River as well as for other
stations on the Dublin coast, and whieh occasionally
occurs in yellowish forms though usually pure white.
About a fortnight later, however, having found time to
examine the radula or lingual ribbon of one of the specimens,
the peculiar form of this organ placed it beyond all doubt
that the species was not Doris aspera of Alder and Hancock,
but D. proxima of the same authors.
34 i The Irish Naturalist. February,
These two species, which in general aspect are closely
similar, are figured by their authors on the same plate
(Plate 9, Family I.) of the ‘‘ Monograph of the British
Nudibranchiate Mollusca” and farther on in the same
work an excellent drawing of the radula'is given in Plate
46—Tongues of the Dorididae. In describing D. proxima
the authors suggested that the very marked character of
the radula, which at once separates this Dorid from D.
aspera, might be held by some naturalists to justify its
reference to a distinct genus. This suggestion has since
been acted on, Bergh having in 1878 in Vol. ii. of Semper’s
‘‘ Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen ” (Malacologische
Untersuchungen, Heft xiv.) founded the new genus Adalaria
on the Doris proxima of Alder and Hancock. In addition
to the type species Bergh’s genus includes A. Lovéni, on
record for Bantry Bay and the coasts of Norway and
Sweden, and three Northern Pacific species, A. virescens
Bergh, A. pactfica Bergh, and A. albopapillosa (Dall). As
to the systematic position of Adalaria, Eliot places it between
Acanthodoris and Lamellidoris in his division Pseudo-
dorididae of the Phanerobranch Dorids. This division
‘is restricted to temperate seas, and to it is probably referable
the only known instance of a fresh-water nudibranch,
Ancylodoris batcalensis from the Siberian Lake Baikal.
In the text to their plate 46 Alder and Hancock state
that the radula of Dorts proxima has no central plate.
In the radula of the Malahide specimen, however, a few
small, flat, centrally-grooved median plates were detected
at the anterior end. Although the number of the lateral
uncini was in places difficult to make out owing to the
small size of the extreme inner and outer members of the
row, the lingual formula was clearly the same as that given
by Sars in his ‘‘ Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae, ”
$e. AtO-1s. 1 LTO THE large numerals here representing
the conspicuous hooked laterals, one on each side of the
median line. In his Plate XIV., fig. 1b, Sars gives a figure
of the radula of Doris Lovént where the median tooth or
plate accurately represents the form of the corresponding
plate observed in the Malahide specimen of D. proxima.
The fact is that the median teeth are really present in both
1913. CoLGAN.—Adalaria Proxima. 35
species though easily overlooked in D. proxima as might
be expected from their description as given by Sars:
Lamellae radulae medianae nunimae et rudimentares non
contiguae (p. 308). The number of transverse rows of
teeth in the Malahide specimen was 42, and the median
plates were apparently confined to the antérior end, be-
coming rudimentary or obsolete farther back. Bergh!
in describing the Adalarian radula calls these imperfectly
developed median teeth false tooth-plates (falsche Zahn-
platte).
As showing the difficulty of separating D. proxima from
D. aspera, to which it bears so marked a superficial resem-
blance, it is of interest to note that Sars in his classical
work just referred to (p. 308) states that the single specimen
of D. proxima which he dredged off the Lofodens in from
10 to 20 fathoms was labelled D. aspera by his father (the
famous marine zoologist, Michael Sars). Anatomical
examination, however, showed with absolute certainty that
the specimen belonged to D. proxima, first described by
-Alder and Hancock, and afterwards taken in Kiel Bay by
Meyer and Mobius. The lingual formula for D. aspera
it may be mentioned here is 2~I. 1. I-2.
A careful search through the extant literature of the
Irish Marine Moliusca shows that Adalaria proxima has
not been previously recorded for Irish waters. We may
safely then congratulate Professor Bayley Butler on this
interesting acldition to our Nudibranch fauna. The species
appears to be confined to the North Atlantic, ranging from
Dublin northward to the Lofodens, and so far as I can
discover its only British stations are the estuaries of the
Mersey and the Dee, Puffin Island, Anglesea, and St.
Andrews. Now that attention has been drawn to it, and
the value of its lingual formula in distinguishing it from D.
aspera has been pointed out the species will probably be
detected in other Irish stations.
I am indebted to Mr. A. R. Nichols for assistance in
tracing the literature of the genus Adalaria.
1 Gattungen der nordischen Doriden. Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte,
1879, p. 36.
Sandycove, Co, Dublin.
36 The Irish Naturalist. February,
REVIEW.
BRITISH AND IRISH LICHENS,
A Hand List of the Lichens of Great Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands.
By A. R. Horwoop, London: Dulau & Co. Price Is, net. Pp. 45.
We do not think British Lichenologists will receive this Hand List of
Mr Horwood’s with much enthusiasm. The present seems a particularly
inopportune moment in which to produce it. A bare list which is in-
tended for reference in field-work and for use in the herbarium should
almost of necessity be founded on some accessible standard work where
the species listed are described, and where the synonymy is given. In
the present instance the only modern British work of the kind is the
‘“Monograph of the British Lichens in the Herbarium of the British
Museum.’’ But this work is in a transition stage. The second volume
has only been published a short time ago, and the second edition of vol.
i. of which the first edition appeared in 1894 is in course of re-arrangement,
and may be expected in a year or so. So under these circumstances we
think Mr. Horwood would have been wiser to have postponed the com-
pilation of his list until the complete work was available.
As it is he has followed closely the arrangement and nomenclature
of Vol. II. Indeed he tells us in the introduction that it would have
been ‘‘a work of supererogation’’ to have made any alterations in it,
but into the arrangement and nomenclature of Vol. I. he has introduced
many changes and innovations. It would be impossible in a short
notice like this to criticise these alterations in detail ; we can only say that
many of them seem to us unjustifiable. Moreover, we do not consider
that a Hand-List of this description—a mere list of species—where no
explanation or reason can be given for the changes, is the place in which
important alterations in nomenclature and classification should be made,
and certainly not without correlating the new arrangement with the old.
The inaccuracies of the volume are not confined to matters of a tech-
nical character. Forinstance, we notice that Mr. Horwood has included
Massalongo and Schneider amongst the European writers on Lichens
of the last twenty years. But Massalongo died in 1860, and Schneider
is an American.
M,C. eK.
IRISH SOCIETIES.
ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Recent gifts include a Long-eared Owl from Mr. W. Moore Lawrenson,
a Rainbow Trout from Mr. F. C. Kenning, and 15,000 eggs of Brown and
Rainbow Trout from the Irish Fisheries Office. A Cow-bird has been
received on deposit, and two Black-faced Spider Monkeys and a pair of
Marmosets have been purchased.
1913. trish Societies.
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DUBLIN MICROSCOPICAL CLUB.
DECEMBER I1. The Club met at Leinster House, THE PRESIDENT
(J. H. Woodworth) in the chair.
C. F. Batt showed photographs of a new epiphytal orcnid called
Angraecum Andersonit, a native of the Gold Coast, West Africa. It has
a short stem three inches long, which grows downwards, and from which
hang roots eighteen inches in length. The stem bears small fiowers of
analmost transparent white with green stripes on the sepals, and a green
column. The special interest attached to this orchid is that it is leafless,
the aerial roots doing the work of attachment, absorption, and assimi-
lation of food. A section of the root showed the cortical cells full of
chlorophyll, a thin velamen for absorption of moisture, and strong root
hairs which serve for attachment.
F. W. Moore showed portion of the leaf of a hybrid Sedum, obtained
from the late William Corderoy. The leaves were covered with large uni-
cellular glandular hairs which secreted from the apex a drop of clear
glutinous fluid. These glandular hairs formed very interesting objects
when examined under a low power.
W. F. GuNN showed scales from the underside of the leaf of Eleagnus
japonicus. ‘Yhis plant, which is a native of China and Japan, grows
naturally in dry positions, so that it is desirable to limit the amount of
transpiration through the leaves. The scales, which are very closely set
on the lower suriace of the leaves where the stomata are numerous, heip
materially to do this. Under ordinary light the scales are quite trans-
parent and featureless, but the use of polarized light enables the structure
to be seen much more <listinctly, and the use of a sclenite disc greatly
intensifies the colours.
N. CoLGan exhibited a series of slides illustrating the microscopic
structure of the replum or false dissepiment in the Cruciferae. An ex-
amination of some forty-five species of European crucifers appeared
to the exhibitor (whose researches in this direction are as yet incomplete)
to justify the conclusion that a generic character is afiorded by the varied
patterns formed by the system of fibres traversing the replum. In the
genus Alyssum, of which seven distinct species had been examined, the
constancy of type in this pattern was shown to be specially well marked.
In other genera, too, ¢.g., Arabis, Cardamine, Draba, Lepidium, Cochlearia,
Thlaspi, Diplotaxis and Brassica, of which a lesser number of species
had been examined, ranging from five in Arabis and four in Cardamine,
to three each in the remaining six genera, this constancy of type was found
to obtain. The variety in the form and disposition of the fibres traversing
the replum in the species so far investigated, renders it not improbable
that a specific character for each of the numerous species of Cruciferae
provided with a replum may be found in the microscopic lineation of
that portion of the fruit. It remains to be seen whether a classification
of the Cruciferae, founded on such a character, would run paraliel with
existing classifications drawn from more obvious distinctive marks.
Indications of the existence of such a parallelism are not wanting. It
38 The Lrish Naturalist. February,
is hardly necessary to insist on the value in certain lines of research of
microscopic characters of this kind, provided always, that their con-
stancy has been well established.
D. M‘ARDLE exhibited specimens of Prionolobus Turneri, one of the
most curious of the minute leafy Hepatice, possessing traits of character
bordering on several sub-genera. The fresh specimens were in fruit,
and the leaves and stems showed the cell-structure which is very delicate,
beautifully guttulate, the walls and angles thickened. The leaves are in
two rows, bilobed, the whole margins irregularly spinosely dentate, and
often doubly so. The perianth projects beyond the bracts, of which
there are from one to three pairs, the innermost twice the size of the
leaves; it is composed of a single layer of cells except at the base and
angles where there are two layers; the mouth is closely ciliolate. The
calyptra is very fragile, and the oval capsule was burst open to show the
chocolate-coloured spores and bispiral elaters of the same colour. The
first notice we have of the plant being found in Ireland, is given in Sir
William Hooker’s ‘British Jungermanniae’’ (where there is an excellent
figure and description at tab. 29), found on a shady bank of a mountain
rivulet, near Bantry, Co. Cork, by Miss Hutchins, and he writes—‘ I
cannot promise myself a more grateful task than that of dedicating a
small but elegant species to Dawson Turner, Esq.” The date of Miss
Hutchins collecting the plant would be about 1811, and no specimens
were found in any part of Ireland during the long interval! of sixty-two
years, until Professor Lindberg, of Helsingfors, found a small quantity
on a wet sandy bank at Cromaglown, Killarney, in 1873, and once, again
it has been found by the exhibitor luxuriating inthe County Wicklow, in
October, 1912, after an interval of thirty-nine years, in a new station
far from its home in the south-west. In England it is very rare, and has
been reported from Sussex and Warwick; in Wales from Dolgelly; alsoin
Guernsey, France, the Canary Islands, N. Africa, and the coast counties
of California.
J. N. HavsBert exhibited an Oribatid mite Hypocthonius rufulus,
Koch, found amongst moss collected in County Mayo. It is the only
species of the genus known to occur in Ireland, but has not been previously
recorded. The species is remarkable for its bright red colouring, the
division of the abdomen into two nearly equal parts, and the beautifully
pectinate stigmatic organs. It was supposed at one time to represent
an immature form (nymph) but this has been proved erroneous by A. D.
Michael, who has bred larvae from ripe eggs obtained from these mites.
A few of the Irish specimens were observed to contain large-sized eggs
BELFAST NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB.
NOVEMBER 27.—GEOLOGICAL SECTION.—Microscopic Exhibits and
Demonstrations. W. J.C. Tomtitnson, Chairman of the Section, presided.
Mr. ToMLINsoNn’s exhibit consisted of a series of microscopical sections
of volcanic rocks of acid type, including rhyolites from Tardree, Temple-
patrick, Ballycloughan, Cloughwater, and Orritor quarry, west of
1913. lrish Soctettes. 39
Cookstown. He also showed slides of the three types of basalt which
occur in Scrabo quarry, of the coarse-grained basalt from the probable
volcanic neck at Ballymoney, near Holywood, and of the basic dyke in
Kilcoan quarry, Island Magee.
Dr. DWERRYHOUSE exhibited slides of epidiorite and hornblende-
schist from the Loch Assynt district of the north-west Highlands of
Scotland.
Miss M. D. MitcHertt and Miss REA showed a micro-section of a
siliceous oolite from the vicinity of the State College, Pennsylvania.
Mr. MAXweELt exhibited slides of Irish marbles, Newry and Mourne
granites, nummulitic limestone, and coal; also a micro-section, showing
fossil cellular structure, leaves and rootlets. Diatoms, Foraminifera, &c.,
were included in his exhibit.
RoBERT BELL showed interesting hand specimens, including a very
large Pleurotomaria from the Chalk of Moneymore, chalcedoney from
the same district, and phacolite from Craig-a-heilliar, Portrush.
SyYLVANUS WEAR’s exhibit included fine slides made by himself of
local basalts and dolerites, and asbestos from Ligoniel.
Miss M. K. ANDREWS showed microscopic sections of rocks from
the Mourne district, also of a diabase dyke at Scawt Hill, remarkable for
its beautiful pleochroic augite, and a slide of the adjoining chalk com-
pletely altered into a calc-silicate hornstone.
DECEMBER 17.—ARTHUR R. DWERRYHOUSE D.SC., F.G.S., M.R.IA.
lectured on ‘‘ Some Geological Features of Scotland and their Relation
to the Structure of the North of Ireland.’’ ‘The lecturer directed his
attention chiefly to the Archaean and older Palaeozoic rocks, as the great
‘““Caledonian’’ earth-movements which above all others determined
the structure of the North of Ireland took place at the end of the Silurian
period. The structure of the North-West Highlands of Scotland was
dealt with at some length, and it was shown that the Eewisian gneiss,
the oldest rock known in the British Isles, had been formed by the crushing
and shearing of a great complex of basic igneous rocks. The sequence of
events prior to the deposition of the Torridon Sandstone was shown to be
a complex and lengthy one, including (a) the intrusion of the igneous
rocks ; (b) their conversion into gneiss by mechanical deformation ; (c)
the intrusion of four sets of igneous dykes; (d) further earth-movements
which converted the dykes into epidiorites, hornblende-schists, mica-
schists, &c.; {c) great denudation of the land-surface, which removed
the cover under which the igneous rocks and gneisses had been formed.
The formation of the Torridon Sandstone was followed by earth-move-
ments and extensive denudation, and later by a downward movement
of the land, which sank beneath the level of the sea in which the Cambrian
rocks were subsequently deposited. Ata later date after the formation
of the Ordovician and Silurian rocks a still more stupendous series of
earth-movements set in, producing the enormous thrust-planes and reversed
faults so characteristic of the North-West Highlands. Attention was
drawn to the natural division of Scotland into four great structural areas—
viz. (1) the North-West Highlands; (2) the Eastern and Central High-
40 The Irish Naturalist. February,
lands ; (3) the Central Valley (Clyde and Forth Valleys); and (4) the
Southern Uplands, and the last three were shown to extend into Ireland,
and were traced across the island to the Atlantic coast. Particular
attention was drawn to the close similarity both in nature and arrangement
existing between the Ordovician and Silurian rocks of the Southern
Uplands of Scotland and those of County Down and the neighbouring
districts, while many of the quartzites and limestones of the Central
Highlands between the Caledonian Canal and the Grampian Fault were
shown to have their counterparts in the counties of Londonderry, Donegal,
and Tyrone. At the conclusion of the lecture R. J. WEetcH raised some
questions on the subject matter of the paper. W. J. C. Tomiinson also
commented on the interest of the paper, and pointed out how necessary
it was that more work should be done on the same lines in Ireland as has
been done by the Geological Survey in Scotland. Dr. Dwerryhouse having
replied, the Chairman conveyed to Nevin H. Foster the congratulations
of the Club upon his election as a Fellow of the Linnean Society. He
also expressed the regret that the Club is about to lose two of its members,
Mr. and Mrs. Balfour-Browne, who are leaving for England.
DECEMBER 26.— A small band of members travelled to Downpatrick
and proceeded on foot to St. Patrick’s Holy Wells, Struell. After ascending
Slievenagriddle, a protruding boss of igneous rock was examined. Several
good specimens showing the junction of it and the Silurian rocks were
obtained. In most casesnear the junction what appeared to be “‘ junction-
breccia’’ was observed. Some exposed surfaces of the Silurian rocks
near the summit showed traces of severe glaciation. The glacial striae
ran from north to south. Close to the highest point a small overflow
channel or ‘‘ dry gap’’ was pointed out. The descent of the hill was
made to Lough Money, and after a visit to the stone circle at Eallyalton
the party returned to Downpatrick. A brief visit to the grave of St.
Patrick in the grounds of the Cathedral was made before tea.
DUBLIN NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB.
JULY 13, 1912.—EXCURSION TO NEWLY-MADE LAND AT NorTH WALL.—
A party of twenty members and visitors assembled at the Custom House
Quay, and travelled down the river in steam Jaunches. After landing
near the lighthouse, the party proceeded by the miniature railway to
the newly-made land, which is an eastward extension of the North Wall
formed by the accumulation of mud and sand dredged from the bed of the
river by the dredgers of the Port and Docks Board. The conductor,
Mr. J. W. Griffith, M.INST.c.E., escorted the party, and gave an interesting
account of the history and formation of this ground. A brief exami-
nation of the rank flora, which has migrated into the area, was made.
Several species of land shells were found, which had probably reached
their present habitat via the Tolka river. Mr. and Mrs. Griffiths very
kindly provided tea in the open air, and after some desultory collecting,
the party embarked once more and returned to town.
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NOTES,
ZOOLOGY.
Rhantus exoletus in County Mayo.
As the above Water-beetle is not included in Mr. Balfour-Browne’s
list of aquatic coleoptera from Clare Island and adjacent mainland—
“Clare Island Survey” (Proc. R.I.A., vol. xxxi.)—the capture of a
specimen in a small lake near Westport, which is included in the district,
in August, I911, may be worth recording. Iam indebted to Mr. Halbert,
of the Dublin Museum, for kindly naming the insect for me.
L. H. BONAPARTE WYSE.
Ealing Common, London, W.
Notes on Irish Beetles.
In a recent paper (Entom. Month. Mag. (2), xxi., p. 62), J. N. Halbert
records many of the rarer beetles occurring at Shane’s Castle, on the north-
eastern shore of Lough Neagh. Some of the more interesting species
such as Cryptophagus bimaculatus and others, have already been noted
in the Irish Naturalist (xix., p. 32). Amongst the species not mentioned
in this latter reference is the black variety of Paramecosoma melano-
cephalum, Herbst., which replaces the type form in Ireland ; a varietal
name (var. infuscatum) is proposed for this insect. A large brown form
of the same species, with stronger puncturation, which would seem to be
referable to the variety univeste, Reitter, also occurred in the same locality.
G. C. Champion records (Entom. Month. Mag, (2), xxi., p. 70), the
capture by F. Bullock of an example of Grammoptera ruficornis, F., var.
pallipes, Steph., at Killarney. We are glad to hear that Mr. Builock,
who collected with great success in the Dublin district some years ago,
is continuing his entomological work in the south-west of Ireland, where
there has always been an absence of resident collectors of coleoptera.
P. Cameron records (Entom. Month. Mag. (2) xxi., p. 280), an example
of ararerove-beetle, Atheta (Homolota) pictpennis Mann., from Rathmullan,
County Donegal. It was taken on the wing on July 4th, 1909. Apparently
this is the second recorded occurrence of the species in these islands ;
and it confirms Dr. Joy’s previous record of Homalota picipennis as a
British insect.
In the Entom Month. Mag. (2), xxil., p. 153, F. Balfour-Browne describes
a new species of Haliplus which he calls H. nomarx. It belongs to the
difficult “ ruficollis”’ group of the genus, and occurs in canals, lakes,
and large drains of clear water, in England, Scotland, and Ireland. .
Some useful notes on the nomenclature and habits of the British and
Irish species of Longitarsus are supplied by Messrs. Tomlin and Sharp
in a recent paper (Entom. Month. Mag. (2) xxii., p. 241). We may point
out that the insect usually recorded from Ireland as Longitarsus ater, F.,
42 The Irish Naturalist. February,
should be referred to under the name L. parvulus, Payk. It is a species
of economic importance, and is well known in the north-east of Ireland,
on account of the injury it causes to the flax crops. The authors record
it as occurring in abundance on low trees in a wood near Ballycastle,
Co. Antrim.
A rove-beetle new to science (Bledius seceydendus) has been recorded
(Entom. Month. Mag. (2) xxil., p. 269) by Dr. Joy, being an addition to
the known beetle fauna of Ireland. The species is probably mixed with
the common Bledius arenarius in British collections. The Irish specimens
were captured by Dr. Joy three years ago at Cloghane in County Kerry.
Insects at Coolmore, Co. Donegal.
Mrs. Johnson and I spent from August 19th to September 20th at
Coolmore revisiting our old hunting-grounds there, but not with our
previous success. Insects were decidedly scarce, owing, no doubt, to the
cold and wet of the summer. However, we worked away, taking full
advantage of any sunshine that we were favoured with, and succeeded
in getting a few insects, though very far from what we had hoped for.
Beetles were anything but plentiful. Seaweed, which generally yields a
rich harvest, was almost a blank. I did not see a single Dyschirius, and
hardly any Bledii, the only species met with being the common B. arenarius.
Other denizens of the seashore were Bembidium atrocoeruleum Steph., B.
bruxellense Wesm., B. saxatile Gyll., Aleochara succicola Thoms., Homalota
vestita Grav., and Cafius xantholoma Grav. On the sandhills, in dead
rabbits, I found a good many Choleva grandicollis Gr., and with them a
couple of C. Watsoni Spence. There were very few Aphodii about, but
Mrs. Johnson obtained a specimen of A. focteis F., a few examples of
A. scybalarius F., and A. fimetarius L., ab. castaneus, Bouskell. On Iris
there were a number of Aphthena nonstriata Goeze, and a few Chalcoides
smavagdina Foudras, occurred on sallow. Chrysomela Bankst F., was
very common, even crawling on the window-sills. The only Weevils that
I obtained were Apion haematodzs Kirby, and Otiorrhcynchus rugifyons
Gyll.
As might be expected in such a season, Lepidoptera were not abundant.
I was therefore agreeably surprised on one of the fine sunny days we had
in September to find two fine fresh specimens of Vanessa io. On ragweed
I took Hydraecia nictitans, one of which had the stigmata bright orange, H.
micacea, and Chareas graminis. At night a few moths came to the lamp
in the sittingroom, the most plentiful being Ovthosia limosa, besides it
I may mention Helotropa fibrosa and Noctua glaveosa. I found a nice
specimen of Ennomos alniaria sitting on a window. Cidarvia testata
occurred pretty freely, and I took a couple of Tevas caudana by beating
hedges. The larvae of Ceruva vinula were pretty common on willows and
sallows, and those of Lasiocampa rubi were quite plentiful ; besides these
I met with single specimens of the larva of Smerinthus pobduli and
Acronycta rumicts.
W. F. JoHNson, ,
Poyntzpass.
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A few more Irish Ichneumonidae.
The ichneumon flies recorded by Claude Morley (Entom. Month. Mag.
(2), xxii., p. 19) were collected by J. N. Halbert, mostly on expeditions
organised by the Royal Irish Academy Fauna and Flora Committee.
He remarks that some of the species are of considerable rarity, as for
instance Prolarchus rufus,Grav., an insect which is parasitic in the cocoons
of large saw-flies of the genus Cimbex. The twelve species recorded are
as follows—Protichneumon fuscipennis, Wesm., Forth Hill, Co. Wexford.
Ichneumon molitorius, Grav., Santry Demesne, Co. Dublin. Platylabus
dimidiatus, Grav., Muckross. Glyphicnemis profligator, Fab., Woodford,
Co. Galway. Evxolytus laevigatus, Grav., Bog of the Ring, Co. Dublin.
Cryptus tarsoleucus, Schr., Ross, Co. Galway. Meniscus murinus, Grav.,
Mangerton, Co. Kerry. Evetastes cinctipes, Retz., Lambay. Prolarchus
vufus, Grav., Lough Dan, Co. Wicklow, September, 1908. Henico-
spilus vamidulus, Lim., Kilcool, Co. Wicklow. Campoplex falcator, Thumb.,
Mangerton. Aphanistes ruficorvnis, Grav., Glandore, Co. Cork.
Carrion Crow at Lambay.
Mr. Francis Mason (steward to the Hon. Cecil Baring) reports to me
that he and his son have seen on several occasions, during the last three
weeks, a Carrion-crow at Lambay. Mr. Mason states that both he and
his son have resided in England for a number of years, and that they are
well acquainted with the different species of the Crow tribe, and that they
have no doubt of the identity,of the bird.
GEORGE C. May.
Dublin.
Late Stay of Swifts.
In the Ivish Naturalist for December (vol. xxi., 1912, p. 246) I find
two notes under the above heading, which commence with—‘‘ Despite
the coldness of August (and the Summer) the Swifts did not depart,’’
&c. If the writer had stated—‘ Because of ,the cold August and
Summer, ’’ &c., it would have been (in my opinion) more in accordance
with the actual facts. If any readers are sufficiently interested in this
subject I would refer them to the Naturalist, 1907, pp. 111-114 ; wherein
I recorded my observations on a colony of Swifts for nineteen consecutive
years. But sufficient for the present notice is the fact that I found
that in fine summers the Swifts left earlier than in cold and wet ones,
and summarised thus :—‘‘ My observations seem to show that with this
species the date of their departure is fixed more by the forwardness of
the young brood, and by their ability to undertake the long journey,
than by the state of the weather, or of their food supply, at the time of
leaving. I find that in the finest summers, and consequently when there
is the largest supply of winged insect food, this colony usually breaks
up a day or two earlier than in colder and wetter seasons, and they will
leave sometimes when there is apparently an unlimited supply of food
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about. Nesting appears to be their sole object here, and as soon as this
is completed their restless and active spirits fall an easy prey to the
migration ‘ fever.’ ’’
H. B. Booru.
Ben Rhydding, Yorkshire.
Recent Notices of Irish Birds.
Robert Warren records fifteen or sixteen White Wagtails (Motacilla
alba) seen at Bartragh Island, co. Mayo, on April 25 on their spring mi-
gration (Zoologist, August, 1912)... He also notes Black-tailed Godwits
seen in September in Cork Harbour and on the Shandon Estuary, Co.
Waterford (Zoologist, October, 1912). R.M. Barrington records a Barred
Warbler (Sylvia n. nisoria) received from Rockabill in September (British
Birds, November, 1912), and in the same number N. H. Foster records
an instance of Sheld-Duck (Tadorna tadorna) and Red-breasted Merganser
(Mergus servator) laying in the same nest in Co. Down, and Rev. C. W.
Benson records a Great Skua (Stevcoravius s. skua) seen at Laytown in
October, 1908.
BOTANY.
Rare Mosses in Counties Antrim and Derry.
I wish to record a few interesting finds of Mosses made in these counties.
Breutelia avcuata with fruit in young stage, at Legavallon, between
Garvagh and Dungiven, also at Craighall, near Kilrea. Grimmia Hart-
mani, a single tuft by the Bann below Rasharkin. Dicranella Schrebert
var. elata, several places near Kilrea. Ephemerum scyvvatum, grows in
small quantities in fields along side the. Bann on both the Antrim
and Derry sides of the river near Kilrea. Hypnum fiuitans, fruits
in some abundance round some of the lakes near Kilrea. Hypnum
stramineum, margins of lakes near Kilrea. Rev. C. H. Waddell has very
kindly examined the above, and says they are correctly named. —
J. D. Hovsrton.
Kilrea.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
F. Balfour-Browne, M.A.
Our hearty congratulations to Mr. F. Balfour-Browne, who after several
years’ work in the botanical department at Queen’s University, Pelfast,
has been appointed to a newly-established lectureship in Entomology at
Cambridge. We understand that the new post affords considerabie
facility for research, of which our friend’s record assures us that every
advantage will be taken,
March, 1913. The lrish Naturalist. 45
ADDITIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTIONAL
RECORDS OF WOODLICE IN IRELAND
LELL: THE END SOG acer.
BY BD. Ry; PACK BERESFORD, 3.43] MMA and NEVIN
H. -FOSTER). F.£.5.,,-MiRibiAc
SINCE the publication of our paper! giving the known
distribution of Woodlice in Ireland up till the end of Ig1o,
forty-six new county-records have been listed in this group.
Of these, two species—Tvrichoniscus tomentosa and Nagara
nana—are new to Ireland, but can only be regarded as
artificial introductions. We have again to thank the
following correspondents who have kindly aided by sending
us specimens :—Miss A. B. Foster, Messrs. J. N. Halbert,
tL. Leer, VW. HH.’ Patterson, ®. A. Phillips; A.. We) Steliox,
N. E. Stephens, and R. J. Welch. The subjoined annotated
list furnishes particulars of these new county-records up
till the end of 1912, as well as further localities in which some
of the less plentiful species have been obtained, with the
initials of the finder in each case. In this lst the asterisk
denotes that our paper published in March, 1g11, contained
previous records from those county-divisions to which it is
affixed.
Ligia oceanica (Linn.).
We have now proof of the existence of this species in every maritime
county-division, and also a record from the non-maritime county of Kil-
kenny, in a similar situation to that in which it was found in Co. Armagh.
tr. Bank of River Suir, Kilkenny (A.W.S.).
ty: Oraumere, Galway S.E. (R-A-P.):
Trichoniscus vividus (Koch).
Mr. Stelfox reports this species as very numerous in the marshes in
Co. Wexford.
12. Ballyteige, Kilaun, and Castlebridge, Wexford (A.W.S.).
2 Proc, R. 1. Acad., vol. xxix. (B), no. 4,
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Trichoniseus roseus (Koch),
6. Mount Congreve, Waterford (D.R.P.B.). °
10.* Cloughjordan, Tipperary N. (R.A.P.).
11. Near Waterford City (A.W.S.), and Thomastown (R.A.P).,
Kilkenny.
20.* Valley between Bray and Enniskerry, Wicklow (A.W.S.).
22. Beauparc (N.H.F.), and Kells (A.W.S.), Meath,
30. Cavan Town (N.H.F.), Cavan.
32. Rossmore Gardens (N.H.F.), Monaghan.
36. Baronscourt (N.H.F.), Tyrone.
37.* Loughgall (N.H.F.), Armagh.
39.* Ballycastle (N.H.F.), Antrim.
T. pygmaeus G, O. Sars.
During the past two years we have been enabled to add this species
to the faunal lists of nine county-divisions, and are of opinion that
eventually it will be found in every county in Ireland. With the ex-
ception of Mayo W., we have discovered it in every division in which
we had opportunity of searching for it; and, as in our experience it is
more readily found in winter or early spring, it may be that had our
visits to that county occurred at a different time of year, we should have
succeeded in taking it there also. It may be noted that Mr. Stelfox’s
finding of T. pvgmaeus in Mayo E. occurred in the month of November.
11. Near Waterford City, Kilkenny (A.W.S.).
12. Ardcavan, Wexford (A.W.S.).
13.* Pollmounty, Carlow (A.W.S.).
20. Bray, Wicklow (A.W.S.).
22. Beauparc, Meath (N.H.F.).
26. Manulla, Mayo E. (A.W.S.).
29. Kinlough, Leitrim (A.B.F.).
30. Cavan Town, Cavan (N.H.F.).
1. Termonfeckin, Louth (N.H.F.).
2.* Rossmore demesne, Monaghan (N.H.F.).
3. Castle Caldwell, Fermanagh (N.H.F.).
37.* Loughgall, Armagh (A.W.S. and N.H.F.).
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T. Stebbingi Patience.
This species has in Ireland been found only in greenhouses, and con-
sequently must be regarded as exotic.
38. Hillsborough, Down (A.W.S. and N.H.F.).
39. Botanic Gardens and Crawford’s Nursery, Belfast, Antrim
(A.W.S, and N.H.F.},
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Trichoniscoides albidus (Budde-Lund).
20. Bray (A.W.S.), and Greystones (N.E.S.), Wicklow.
27.* Westport, Mayo W. (J.N.H.).
Trichorina tomentosa Budde-Lund.
This Venezuelan species has only been taken in one place in Ireland.
(See Ivish Naturalist, vol. xx., p. 154).
39. Botanic Gardens, Belfast, Antrim (H.L.O., A.W.S., R.J.W.,
and N.H.F.).
Haplophthalmus Mengii Zaddach.
As anticipated, this beautiful little species appears to have a wide
distribution in Ireland, but has been generally found in the vicinity cf
the coast.
Mallow, Cork°E. (A.W.S.).
12. Kilaun, Wexford (A.W.S.).
20. Bray, Wicklow (A.W.S5.).
26. Manulla, Mavo E., (A.W.S.).
29.* Kinlough, Leitrim (A.B.F.).
37- Loughgall, Armagh (N.H.F.).
38. Belvoir Park, Down (A.W.S. and N.H.F.).
39. Ballycastle, Antrim (N.H.F.).
Platyarthrus Hoffmannseggii. Brandt.
We have no new county-records for this species, but Mr. Stelfox found
it in the Counties of Waterford, Wexford, and Carlow in the nests of
three species of ant, viz. :—Formica rufa, Lasius flavus, and L. niger.
In Wexford he found numerous specimens under stones where no ants’
nests were visible.
Porcellio pictus Brandt.
6. Near Waterford City, Waterford (A.W.S.).
30. Near Cavan Town, Cavan (N.H.F.).
32. Camla House, Monaghan (N.H.I’.).
33. Castle Caldwell, Fermanagh (N.H.F.).
6. Gortin, Tyrone (A.B.F.).
37.* Loughgall, Armagh (N.H.F.).
P. dilatatus Brandt,
16.* Railway bank near Galway City. Galway W, {R.A.P.).
o. Greystones, Wicklow (N.E.S.).
7.* Clare Island, Mayo W. (A.W.S.).
2. Rossmore gardens, Monaghan (N.H.#.).
48 The lrish Naturalist. March,
Nagara nana Budde-Lund.
Of this exotic species from Madagascar only one specimen, so far
as we know, has been taken in Europe. (See Irish Naturalist, vol. xx.,
p. 154).
39. Botanic Gardens, Belfast, Antrim (A.W.S..and N.H.F.).
Metoponorthus pruinosus (Brandt).
With the exception of a single specimen found under a plank in the
goods-yard at Armagh railway station, all our fresh localities for this
species are from greenhouses. It proved exceedingly numerous in one
of the warm melon-houses in Rossmore gardens.
30. Cavan Town, Cavan (N.H.F-.).
2. Rossmore gardens, Monaghan (N.H.F.).
36. Baronscourt, Tyrone (N.H.F.).
37. Loughgall, and Armagh City, Armagh (N.H.F.).
38.* Dickson’s nurseries, Newtownards, Down (A.W.S. and N.H.F.).
Cylisticus convexus (De Geer).
4. Mallow, Cork Mid (A.W.S.).
11.* Near Waterford City, Kilkenny (A.W.S.).
12. Castlebridge, Wexford (A.W.S.).
20. Bray, Wicklow (A.W.S.).
34.* Bundoran (very numerous), Donegal E. (N.H.F.).
36. Baronscourt, Tyrone (N.H.F.).
38.* Belvoir Park, Down (A.W.S. and N.H.F.).
Armadillidium vulgare Latreille.
We have no fresh county records for this species, for which careful
search has been continued in several Ulster counties.
38.* Ardglass (A.W.S.), and Newry (N.H.F.), Down.
A. nasatum Budde-Lund.
We took a specimen in Belvoir Park greenhouses, Co. Down,
measuring 12°5 x 7 mm., this being the largest example hitherto found
in IrelJand.
36. Baronscourt, Tyrone (N.H.F.).
38.* Dickson’s nurseries, Newtownards, Down (A.W.S. and N.H.F.),
Fenagh House, Bagenalstown,
Hillsborough, Co. Down,
1913. NrcHorson.—/rish Beetles. 49
SOME ADDITIONAL RECORDS OF IRISH BEETLES,
CHIEFLY FROM CO. MEATH.
BY G. W. NICHOLSON, M.D.
In pursuance of my destiny always to go to Ireland at a
time when beetles are scarce, I spent the month of July,
Ig12, at. Balrath. The summer species one expects to
find on flowers and by sweeping were absent, and it was
only by pulling moss, sifting refuse, and such methods,
that I succeeded in finding anything at all.
There are, however, two additions to the Irish list.
These are :—
Clambus punctulum, Beck.—I found a single specimen
of this species in moss on the banks of a stream at Cabra
Castle, Co. Cavan, within a hundred yards of the Meath
county boundary.
Emcmus histrio, Joy.—Occurred at Balrath in lawn
mowings. This identification has been verified by Dr. Joy
himself.
Another species, though apparently an introduced
member of our fauna, is noteworthy :
' Ptinus tectus, Boiel—It was with more pleasure than
surprise that I encountered a couple of specimens of this in-
sect walking about in Balrath House at night. This
species has spread widely in England during recent years,
and its appearance in Ireland (as first recorded in 1908
by G. H. Carpenter)! was to be expected.
Among my other captures the following, which I have
not previously recorded from this district? deserve mention:
Hydroporus incognitus, Sharp; Limnebius truncatellus,
Thoms., common in moss onstonesinasmallshallowstream ;
Helophorus aquaticus, L., var. aequalis, Thoms., one specimen
' Econ. Proc. R. Dublin Soc., vol. i., p. 587, pl. liv.
2 Ivish Naturalist, vols. xix. and xx,
50 The lrish Naturalist. March,
in a ditch on the ‘‘ home bog ” ; Atheta (Homalota) xanthop-
teva, Steph., a specimen by sweeping; Autalia rnivularis,
Grav., in moss; Mycetoporus splendidus, Grav., common
in hay refuse; Philonthus ventralis, Grav., Leptacinus
linearis, Grav., common in lawn mowings; Luthocharis
ochracea, Grav., a few in company with the last two;
Dianous cerulescens, Gyll., in numbers with the Limnebius;
Stenus pubescens, Steph., S. binotatus, Ljun., among reeds ;
Bythinus validus, Aubé, I got a fine series from moss in
various parts of the estate, but always under fir-trees ;
Eunucrus tarsatus, Mull., abundant in lawn mowings ;
Amtsotoma calcavata, Er., one under a stone; Saprinus
nitidulus, Pk., common in carrion; Sericoderus laterals,
Gyll., in lawn mowings ; Epuraea pusilla, Er., on cut pine-
stumps; Rhizophagus cribratus, Gyll., R. ferrugineus,
Pk., under bark ; Monotoma picipes, Herbst, M. longicollis,
Gyll., both these species were equally abundant in lawn
mowings ; Lathridius lardarius, deG., in lawn mowings ;
Corticaria elongata, Humm., by beating pine-tops; Cryp-
tophagus affimis, Sturm, in moss; Atomaria apicalis, Er.,
in lawn mowings; Typhaea fumata, 1.., common in pine-
tops; Grammoptera ruficornis, F.; Donacia versicolorea,
Brahm., one specimen in the round pond ; D. simplex,
F., D. discolor, Panz., common on the ‘‘ home bog” ;
Deparaus betulae, L., on aspen in bog wood; Alophus
triguitatus, F.; Mvyelophilus pintperda, L., common in
the saw-pit.
An hour’s collecting in the demesne of Cabra Castle, Co.
Cavan, along the banks of a rocky stream on a very wet
day, produced the following species :—
Bembidium tibtale, Duft., B. fammulatum, Clairv., both
in some numbers under stones; Quedius auricomus, Kies.,
one, Dianous c@erulescens, Gyll., in numbers, Stenus
Guynemert, Duv., one, in moss behind a waterfall ; Rhizo-
phagus perforatus, Er., under bark.
Cancer Hospital, Brompton,
London, S.W.
1913. The Clare Island Survev— Botany. 5i
THE CLARE ISLAND SURVEY—BOTANY..
With the issue of Mr. Cotton’s report on the Marine
Algae in November, the publication of the Systematic
Botany of the Clare Island Survey is completed.
Other papers on botanical subjects—Mr. Forbes’ report
on ‘‘ Tree-growth,” and Mr. Lewis’ on ‘‘ Peat-deposits,”’
have still to appear, but the enumeration of the flora of
the district, from Phanerogamia to Algae, is now complete.
The extent of the six reports which make up this part of
the Clare Island work may be shown thus :—
Plates.| Price.
|
Group. | Author. Pace,
eS, es
Phanerogamia and . R. Lloyd Praeger 112 6 0fh-4eo
Pteridophyta |
Musci and Hepaticae Rev. Canon Lett 18 =e he) ae
Fungi ue .. | Sir H. C. Hawley | 26 ee” ary,
and Carleton Rea. |
Lichens is: .. | Miss Lorrain Smith | 14 SU, G.) .@
Marine Algae .. | A. D. Cotton Pitz Li) 35 A
Fresh-water Algae .. William West Ly, 02 a oe
Total fe, Wi -48Oc ho 28 HIse
The results, from a statistical point of view, may be
shown similarly as follows, in number of species recorded :—
t J | 2
New New | New
|
} |
Group. | Total. | to | to British | to
| Ireland. | Isles. Science.
Phanerogamia and 465 - - -
Pteridophyta |
Musci ot ie 228 As ~ - _
Hepaticae .. as 127 yo - 2
Fungi He $ 802 | 295 II 2
Lichens ae i, 280 34 I ~
Marine Algae a 437 | g2 Ea | 3
Fresh-water Algae .. 887 157 a5 | 6
Total 3,119 | 585 BGs, | II
52 The Trish Naturalist. March,
All the reports deal with the flora of both Clare Island
itself and the neighbouring mainland, except that on the
Phanerogamia, in which attention is confined to Clare Island
and the neighbouring islands of Inishturk and Inishbofin.
In this report a careful comparison is made between the
flora of the three islands, and the leading points of
difference between the island flora and that of the adjacent
mainland are shown. The plant associations of Clare
Island are described, and a vegetation map in red and blue
is added. The latter part of the report is occupied with
a full discussion of the problems of plant-dispersal, especially
with reference to the flora of Clare Island. The writer
argues the inefficiency of both water and wind dispersal, and
gives the results of a series of experiments on the rate
of fall of pappus-seeds and others specially adapted for
wind-dispersal. | Bird-dispersal he considers to be more.
important than either, but inadequate to account for the
immigration of the bulk of the flora.
In Mr. Cotton’s report on the Marine Algae, nearly
half of the space is devoted to ecology. This is pioneer
work so far as the British Isles are concerned, and is of great
value. The various associations and societies, their dis-
tribution, character, and variation are described very fully,
and the work of Mr. Cotton in the Clare Island district
places that area on the same footing as the papers of
Kjellmann, Kylin, Rosenvinge, Borgesen, Joubin, and others
have done for Scandinavia, Greenland, the Faerées, and
Roscoff. The systematic part of the report is singularly
complete, Mr. Cotton’s list of species actually approaching
to within fifteen species of the previous list for the whole of
Ireland. The critical notes appended to the list of species
clear up doubtful points regarding many of the plants
dealt with.
Another remarkably extensive list is that of the Fungi,
by Rea and Hawley, including as it does over 800 species
from a district most of which is devoid of trees, and greatly
exposed. The special attention given to critical and to
minute species has resulted in the addition of nearly three
hundred species to the Irish list.
1913. The Clare lsland Survey—Botany. 53
Mr. West’s report on the Fresh-water Algae (to which
Marine Diatoms are added) represents a vast amount: of
work, and adds over 150 species to the Irish flora in this
eroup, the knowledge of which in this country is largely
due to his own work and that of his son, Professor G. S.
West. The reports on the Musci, Hepaticae, and Lichens
all add materially to our knowledge of these groups in
Ireland, especially as regards the west coast. The addition
of seven Hepaticae to the Irish list is a notable achievement,
when we remember how thoroughly this class, like the
Mosses, has been worked in Ireland.
The high total of the flora of the district, and the fact
that: 585 species are added to the Irish list, of which
55 are now for the first time recorded from the British Isles,
and of which rr (and a number of varieties in addition)
are new to science, shows the remarkable effect of intensive
study of a defined area, even when, as in the present case,
that area is not particularly favourably situated as regards
climatic or edaphic conditions.
The six reports together form, as shown above, a volume
of 410 pages and 20 plates: The plates are concerned
mainly with the illustration of new or rare species, and of
types of vegetation.
REVIEWS,
BRITISH AND IRISH BIRDS.
The British Bird-Book. Edited by F. B. Kirkman, B.A., Oxon. Parts
ix. and x. London and Edinburgh: T.C. and E. C. Jack.
The British-Bird Book continues with each succeeding part to justify
the claim of its preface that it would aim at bringing together ‘‘ from
every source, foreign and native, all the available information of any
importance concerning the habits of British Birds.’ The accounts given
in Part ix. of. the Sanderling and Ruff, and in Part x. of the Golden Eagle,
have only to be read to convince the most sceptical* that there was a
genuine need for a new ornithological work making this its principal
object. None of these three chapters—contributed respectively#by Messrs.
EE a a ee ee ee eee
* Proc R. I. Acad., vol. xxxi. pts. 10-16,
A3
54 The Trish Naturalist. March,
W. Farren, F. C. R. Jourdain, and W. P. Pycraft—could have been
written until within the past few years, during which our knowledge of
the breeding-habits of the three species dealt with has been placed on an
entirely new footing by the close attention paid to the first of them by
Herr Manniche, in North-east Greenland, to the second by Mr. Edmund
Selous in Holland, and to the third by Mr. H. B. Macpherson in the im-
mediate vicinity of an eagle's eyrie in the heart of the Grampians. Of
the other birds dealt with in these two parts—which cover, roughly,
the Sandpipers and their allies, with the Orders Fulicariae, Gallinae, and
Accipitres, and the Swans and Geese—it is unnecessary to say that there
are many whose habits are still so imperfectly known as to afford little
material for a work on the present plan. The account given of the White-
tailed Eagle, for example, is most regrettably meagre ; and this is probably
not the fault of Mr. Pycraft, who admits the special interest that ought
to attach to the study of that splendid bird, representing as it does not
only a distinct genus, but a distinct group, ‘‘ only very remotely related
to the true Eagles,’’ and actually included by Dr. Suschkin among the
Milvinae.
On the subject of nuptial plumage, nuptial displays, and the battles
fought between males in the breeding season, it is sometimes open to doubt
whether a sufficiently clear perspective has been maintained by the different
contributors. In treating of the Geese, Mr. Pycraft gives us a good example
of the loose language that is so common in regard to these topics. Writing
of the Greylag, he tells us that ‘‘ the competition for females among the
bachelors occasions some great fights’ ; and he adds that “ the younger,
unmated,®ineligible birds live in the vicinity of the breeding colony, but
keep in separate flocks.’’ But he does not state—as one would expect him
to do if such were the case—that there is any ascertained disparity in
the numbers of the sexes, or that the ‘“‘ unmated, ineligible birds ”’ that
live in separate flocks in or about the colony are all males. What is there,
then, to prevent the defeated bachelors from finding mates when all the
fighting is over? The natural conclusion, it seems to us, is that the
original fights were for possession of ground rather than exclusively “ for
females.’’ This seems also to be the true conclusion deducible from the
exhaustive and invaluable observations made by Mr. Edmund Selous on
the breeding habits of the Ruff in Holland. As Mr. Jourdain (summarizing
though not quoting the statements of Mr. Selous) puts it :—‘‘ The fully
developed males had their own definite places on the hill, and the only
real fighting seems to have arisen from a new comer pitching on a spot
already appropriated.’’ The reviewer may here add that the conduct
of two Ruffis and two Reeves which were kept in an enclosure in the Zoo-
logical Gardens in Dublin, last spring, was such as fully to bear out the
conclusion’ that the stronger male bird indirectly secures preference from
the females by winning and jealously holding possession of a favourite
bit of ground, which no rival is permitted to enter.
The beauty of the coloured plates in these as in the preceding parts, is
so great as almost to rouse in us a feeling of resentment on behalf of the
few species which have been excluded from the favour of portraiture—
amongst these being the White-tailed Eagle, a species surely not undeserving
1913. Reviews. . 55
of a picture. It would be impossible to overpraise Mr. Seaby’s fine re-
presentation of a Curlew chasing a Raven from its breeding ground);
and the same may be said of the plates showing the Common Buzzard
(also by Mr. Seaby), the Golden Eagle, Hen Harrier, and G-eenland
Falcon, by Mr. G. E. Lodge, and “ two Rufis displaying ,to a Reeve ’’
by Mr. H. Grénoold.
In the chapter on the Grouse sub-family, Mr. |ourdain, by an obvious
slip, states that the Capercaillie was exterminated in Scotland a> d Ireland
‘“ during the second half of the nineteenth century ’’'—meaning, of course,
the eighteenth.
C. B. M.
THE WEST BRITISH FAUNA.
Wild Life in the West Highiands. By CHARLES HENRY ALSTON,
with Illustrations by A. Scott Rankin. Glasgow: James Maclehose
and Sons. $s. net.
The subjects of which Mr. Alston treats are rather miscellaneous, but
most of his chapters deal more or less with some phases of the natural
history of the Western Highlands—an area with which, for reasons of
proximity, Irish naturalists may well feel a special interest. | Mr. Alston’s
chapters, however, do not supply much original information. A good many
of them deal with rare and vanishing or even vanished British animals,
as the Wolf, Beaver, Wild Cat, and Sea-Eagle, of which the author makes
no claim to speak from first-hand knowledge. He has summarised with
tolerable accuracy a good deal of the information furnished by previous
writers regarding these species. His chapter on the Wild Cat might
have been improved—since reference is made ijn it to that animal’s absence
from Ireland—had he been aware when writing it of Dr. Scharff’s compara-
tively recent discoveries regarding a supposed old Irish Wild Cat, allied
to the present African form. A few other references to Ireland occur in
the course of Mr. Alston’s book. His statement that the Water Shrew
does not occur in this island might, we fear, be taken by some of his
readers as implying that the Common Shrew does, which, of course, is
not the case. There are some pleasing photographs and a good coloured
plate of the Wild Cat—though a somewhat inferior representation of the
Otter has been chosen for frontispiece to the volume. Bats, reptiles,
and amphibia are ignored by Mr. Alston, but his interest in the Salmonidae
has inspired three chapters which a good many of his readers will probably
deem the best in his book.
C. B. M.
56 The Lrish Naturalist. March,
IRISH SOCIETIES.
ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Recent gifts include a young Otter from Mr. R. J. Ussher, a Kestrel
from Miss Johnston, an Alexandrine Parrakeet from Mrs. Forbes, and two.
Hybrid Ducks from Col. Claude Cane. Five Lion-cubs—three males and
two females—were.born on January 30th, the parents being “‘ Red Hugh ””
and ‘“‘ Nigeria.’’ A white-collared Mangabey and a Ferret have been
received on deposit, and a young female Chimpanzee has been bought.
JANUARY 30.—The Annual Meeting was held (by permission) in the
Lecture Theatre of the Royal Dublin Society. The President (Sir CHARLEs:
BALL, Bart.), in) the, chair.
The Hon. Secretary (Professor G. H. CARPENTER) submitted the Report
and moved its adoption.
The attendance of members and visitors during 1912 numbered 185,265,. ©
as compared with 199,856 in I911, and the receipts at gate were £2,344
as compared with £2,393 in the preceding year. Entrance fees and
subscriptions from new members amounted to £784 in 1912, as compared
with £812 in 1911 ; this decrease is accounted for by the election of only
twelve life-members in 1912, while fifteen joined in IgITI.
The Honorary Officers have worked unchanged through the year.
Both the Secretary and Treasurer are indebted to Professor J. A. Scott,
who kindly undertook. at different times, both offices during vacation
absences. Sir Frederick Moore has given much time in advising and
superintending improvements in the grounds. Professor Mettam continues
to act as the Society’s Honorary Prosector, and to furnish valuable reports
on the causes of death of animals in the Gardens. Early in the year it
was found that Mr. J. Nugent Lentaigne had completed more than twenty
years’ service on the Council ; his colleagues experienced great pleasure in
electing him to an Honorary Vice-Presidency. The resulting vacancy,
among ordinary Members of the Council was filled by the co-option of
Mr. James Inglis.
Dr. B. B. Ferrar, the new Superintendent, has now completed a year
in office, and has worked most zealously for the improvement of the
Gardens and the comfort of the animals. During his vacation he visited
the Gardens in Regent’s Park, London, and several of the great Continental
menageries.
In the Report for 1911, reference was made to the Fish Hatchery just
commenced. Its completion can now be recorded, and several thousands
of eggs of Salmon and Trout, given by the Fisheries Office, are undergoing
development in its tanks. Many unforeseen difficulties arose in -con-
nection with details of the building, its water-supply, and equipment,
but it is hoped that these have all been satisfactorily overcome, and that
hundreds of young fishes will be on view in the ponds during the coming
spring. The Council’s hearty thanks are due to the Irish Fisheries Office,
and to the Conservators and Riparian Owners of the Liffey, for the support
which they have accorded to this undertaking.
1913. Lrish Societies. 57
The other building scheme foreshadowed—the enlargement of the
Haughton House—was commenced during the year, and considerable
progress has already been made. Plans were submitted in the spring
by Messrs. Bachelor and Hicks, the most important feature of which was
a considerable addition to the Members’ Room, and an extension of the
balcony outside it. A valued Member of the Council—one who had,
indeed, initiated the provision of a Members’ Room in the Haughton
House—generously gave the sum of £250 to ensure an increased accom-
modation for the increasingly large number of Members and their friends
who now make use of the room. With the greater facilities which will
thus be afforded for garden-parties and other entertainments, which
Members have the privilege of giving in the Haughton House, it is hoped
that the Society may add largely to its list of supporters.
Besides the enlargement of the Members’ Room, the alterations in
progress at the Haughton House include a considerable addition to the
size of the kitchen, the addition of a much-needed ladies’ cloakroom, the
extension of the balcony area available for the general public through a
change in the position of the staircase, the provision of three or four
new out-door cages on the western aspect of the House, and a large
additional covered area, available for schoo] parties, beneath the extended
floor of the Members’ Room and kitchen.
Several further schemes for the improvement of the collections have been
considered by the Council. The Bears need badly an enlarged set of
dens and open rockwork ; some open-air cages would be a most desirable
addition to the Monkey House; a building is needed for the small
Carnivora ; several members are eager to provide a modern aquarium.
It is hoped that one or two of these improvements may be carried out
during the next twelve months. In these, as in other matters, the power
of the Council is dependant on the support of the public.
In each Annual Report it is, unfortunately, necessary to chronicle
the loss of valuable specimens by death, and the year 1912 brought
some sad gaps in the collection. The Orang, “ Bella.’’ which had seemed
well acclimatised during the summer of Ig911, contracted tubercular
disease during the winter, and died in April. The White-handed Gibbon
which was in the Ape House a year ago, also died, and so did another
of the same species, as well as a Hoolock, kindly brought during the year
from Burma, and given to the Society by Dr. J. M. Falkiner. Another
Hoolock from the same generous donor is, however, still healthy and lively,
although he arrived in a very weak condition. The Chimpanzee, *‘ James,”
having lived for two years in the Ape House, died during the summer,
and a small female, * Sally,’’ given by Lieutenant Phillips, never seemed
at home, and survived only till December. In the latter month the Society
had the good fortune to receive on deposit a splendid male Chimpanzee,
‘Tom,’ the property of the Hon. Walter Rothschild. The animal is
nine years old, and has lived for five years in the London Ape House ;
its owner has now most kindly allowed its transfer to Dublin. ‘* Tom ”’
is so large and strong that the Anthropoid cages with their wire-netting
and plaster walls were deemed unsafe for his habitation ; three of the
ordinary cages in the Monkey House were therefore thrown together
58 The Irish Naturalist. | March,
and strengthened for his reception. He is believed to be the largest
Ape ever shown in Dublin.
Perhaps the most notable feature in the Monkey House at present is
the collection of South American species, whose gymnastic feats—well
aided by the prehensile tail—are a great attraction to visitors. Four female
Black-faced Spider-monkeys disport themselves in the large central cage,
while two species of Capuchins—the White-fronted and the Brown—are
represented by three and five specimens, respectively.
Very serious loss has been sustained in the grand collection of Lions
through the deaths of “ Jerry given years ago by Lord Cranworth ;
of ‘‘ Sultan,”’ the noble wild male given in 1911 by H.M, the King; and
of *‘ Vesta,’ one of the breeding Lionesses, which had lived since her birth
in 1903 continuously in the open-air den. The deaths of “ Jerry’ and
“Sultan ’’ were due to intestinal stoppage, altogether irremediable by
any possible care of the keeper. As some compensation for these losses, .
a pair of well-grown voung Lions from East Africa were kindly given by
Mr. H. Gurney Barclay. Of these, the female, ‘‘ Mitze,’’ has been mated
with ‘‘ Conn ”’ in place of the dead “‘ Vesta.’’ <A litter of four fine cubs,
two of either sex, were born in September, *‘ Red Hugh” and “ Maive ”’
being the parents. The ‘* Niger-Nigeria ’’ family born in 1911 were sold,
together with their sister, “‘ Sheila.”’ The stock now stands at nine males
and eight females.
The Pumas continue to flourish in their open-air cages ; another cub
was born in August, and a new male has been given by the Ear] of Lonsdale.
The pair of Dingos have brought up a family of six puppies. A very
valuable gift received during 1912 is the Indian Wild Dog given by Mr.
W. E. J. Dobbs. The Duke of Orleans presented a large old Russian
Brown Bear, and a younger member of the same species was received in
exchange. <A group of five Racoons have been given by the Rt. Hon.
Jonathan Hogg.
Aiter prolonged consideration, the Council decided that an Elephant
must be obtained for the collection, and a very healthy and good-tempered
young female, ““Roma’’ by name, was bought from Messrs. Hagenbeck
for £250, the sum spent on her purchase representing half of the whole
year’s expenditure on new animals. “‘ Roma” arrived in charge of an
Indian keeper, who, after staying a fortnight, handed over his pet to the
Society's Elephant-keeper, Among Ungulata the Society has to regret
the loss of several valuable specimens, including the Wapiti Stag, the
Maxwell's Duiker, and the Wart Hog. On account of the difficulties
raised by the prevalence of cattle-disease, no attempt has been made to
replenish the stock in this order of beasts. The Black-tailed Wallabys
in the Haughton House continue to breed freely ; two young were born
in the summer. A Virginian Opossum, not represented in the Gardens
for some time past, has been purchased. Among the Birds, a Burmese
Hawk-Eagle from D. J. M. Falkiner, and a Sharpe’s Wood Owl (West
Africa) are especially noteworthy gifts. Dr. W. 5S. Bruce, of Edinburgh,
deposited three Spitsbergen Ptarmigan in the Gardens, but it was possible
to keep them alive only for a few weeks. An exceptionally large West
African Python, measuring 18 feet in length and weighing 130 lbs., was
1913. Trish Societies. 59
given by Mr. C. E, Lane Pool, but it did not live in the Monkey-house
(where alone it could be fairly well accommodated) more than a few days.
‘li the new Aquarium be built, the Council hope to modify the present -
Aguarium into a properly-heated Reptile-house.
The Photographic Competition of 1912 was distinguished by the receipt
of more entries than usual, and by the production of some remarkably
fine pictures. The Silver Medal was won by Mr, S. Allsop, of Walsall,
and a special Bronze Medal in the same class was awarded to Mr, J.
McGrath, Dublin. The Bronze Medal offered to competitors under
eighteen years was awarded to Miss Annie M. Goodman, Dublin.
Among the gatherings of various societies in the Gardens, the visit of
the Museums’ Association, entertained to tea by the Dublin Local Com-
mittee on the occasion of their annual meeting in July, brought several
distinguished zoologists to see the collections. It is gratifying to the
Council to learn that a picture of young Pumas, painted by the Edinburgh
artist, Mr. William Walls, R.S.A., from models living in the Dublin Gardens
has been bought by the National Gallery of Scotland. Mr. Walls has now
most generously lent to the Society his painting of a Lioness, for which
** Nigeria ’’ served as model.
In connection with the inauguration of the Fish Hatchery, the Council
invited Mr. W. S. Green, c.s., Chief Inspector of Fisheries, to give the
usual popular lecture in the theatre of the Royal Dublin Society, most
kindly lent for the occasion. Mr. Green’s lecture, delivered to a larg:
audience on December 12th, dealt with “Irish Fisheries.’ The Council
feel much indebted to Mr. Green for this valuable help.
The Council wish also to place on record their thanks to the Distress
Committee of the Dublin Corporation, for allotting men during the early
months of the year to work in the Gardens. Also they would express their
gratitude to Messrs. Palgrave, Murphy and Co., for having carried *“‘ Roma,’
the new Elephant and her keeper, free of freight and fare from Hamburg
to Dublin. This is by no means the first occasion on which Messrs.
Palgrave, Murphy and Co., have thus helped the Society, on whom the
very heavy transport charges, often incurred, lay a serious burden. The
Dublin newspapers have, as always, done much to arouse and maintain
public interest in the Zoological Gardens and the creatures which find a
home therein.
The Hon. Treasurer (Dr. E. MACDOWEL CoSGRAVE) in seconding the
adoption of the Report, submitted the Statement of Accounts for Ig12.
The year began with {914 on deposit, and an overdrawn current account
of £80, and closed with £717 on deposit and an overdraft of £111. The
chief items of expenditure were £1,243 for food, £505 for purchase of
animals, £1,136 for buildings, £1,203 for salaries and wages. £397 was
received from the sale of animals. The Report and Accounts were
unanimously adopted.
Sir FREDERICK MOORE proposed some alterations in the rules allowing
the Council to co-opt representatives of public bodies contributing to the
Society’s funds ; extending the privilege of free admission to the families
and domestic servants of members ; and granting to members on appli-
cation, if resident more than 20 miles from Dublin, a yearly book of
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twenty tickets. These changes were seconded by Mr. Longworth
Dames and _ passed.
Messrs. F. Gifford, J. Inglis, and Dr. Woods were elected to vacancies
on the Council. ;
Professor J. A. Scott gave an account of changes in the gardens during
1912, illustrated with a lantern and cinematograph display.
BELFAST NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB.
NOVEMBER 11.—-The President (Rev. Canon Lett) delivered an address
on “ Botanists of the North of Ireland,’’ which has already appeared in
the Ivish Naturalist (supra pp. 26-33.)
FEBRUARY 5.—Before the Botanical and Zoological Sections, R. LLoypD
PRAEGER, M.R.1LA., gave a lecture entitled, ‘‘ What do we mean by a Native
Species ?”’ Robert Welch occupied the chair. In the course of his
address, after pointing out the general character of the European flora,
and tracing the progress of human interference with the pre-existing
vegetation, and the various classifications of native and non-native plants
which had been proposed, Mr. Praeger said the definition of a native
species employed by Dunn in his ‘ Alien Flora of Britain ’’ requires us
to ask three questions relating to the species under consideration. First,
have the ancestors of it been in the district since prehistoric times ;
secondly, did it reach its present habitat without the aid (either inten-
tional or accidental) of man ; thirdly, is it living on ground which has
been undisturbed by man? If we can answer these three questions in
the affirmative we may, according to Mr. Praeger’s formula, regard the
standing of the species as NNN in whatever area we may be considering.
On the other hand, the standing of an alien plant brought from a corn-
field, into which it was transported with seed by man, and planted in
cultivated ground is regarded as ***. Between these two extremes we
have six combinations of N and *. Thus the standing of an animal which
has spread from a lake such as Lough Neagh into an artificial waterway,
such as the Lagan Canal, changes from NNN in the lake to NN* in the
canal. And, again, one brought by man from Lough Neagh, where it
was NNN, and placed in an artificial pond becomes N**. An alien which
in a garden would be *** becomes similarly *NN if it spreads by its own
powers to undisturbed ground, or it becomes *N* if it spreads to cultivated
ground, or it becomes **N if it is carried by man and deposited in natural
or undisturbed ground. In conclusion, Mr. Praeger suggested that only
those animals and plants whose standing in any district can be regarded
as NNN or NN* may be considered for general purposes to be “ native.”
The Chairman having thrown the meeting open to discussion, many
points arising from the lecture were raised by members, including Pro-
fessor Gwynne-Vaughan, Dr. Dwerryhouse, A. S. Bennett, A. W. Stelfox,
and others, and replied to by Mr. Praeger.
1913. trish Soctettes. 61
DUBLIN MICROSCOPICAL CLUB.
January 8,—The Club met at Leinster House, D. MCARDLE, (Vice-
President in the Chair)
N. CoLtGan exhibited the radula or lingual ribbon taken from one of
two specimens of Doris proxima, Alder and Hancock, which had been
dredged at Malahide, Co. Dublin, by Professor Bayley Butler on the
1oth December last. ‘This species is superficially so similar to D. aspera
of the same authors, that it is hardly possible to distinguish them without
comparison of the radulae. But an examination of this organ shows a
radical difference of structure which at once separates the two species
and has induced Bergh to adopt D. proxima as the type of a new genus,
Adalaria, intermediate between the genera Acanthodoris and Lamellidoris.
While the lingual formula of Adalaria proxima is 1o-I. 1. I-10. in D.
aspera it is 2-I. 1. I-2. There appears to be no previous record of 4.
proxtma for Irish waters, so that Professor Bayley Butler may be con-
gratulated on the addition to our marine fauna of a new species of nudi-
branch, Itis not improbable that the species will before long be discovered
in other Irish stations.
Pror. G. H. CARPENTER showed specimens of a blind springtail—
apparently a new species of Cyphoderus—recently collected by Dr. Nelson
Annandale (superintendent of the Indian Museum, Calcutta), on the
borders of the Lake of Galilee, close to the town of Tiberias. The insect
which will probably be described and figured in the Journal of the Royal
Asiatic Society of Bengal, is nearly related to species of Cyphoderus from
the valley of the Nile. A corresponding affinity between the fishes of the
Jordan and Nile valleys has long been known.
W. F. Gunn showed the adult form of Corethra plumicornis, a dipterous
fly, well known for the beautiful plumose antennae which it possesses,
and which in the larval form is known as the ‘‘ phantom”’ or “ glass ”’
larva. This object was chosen for exhibition principally to demonstrate
a method of illumination which seems advantageous when a low power is
used on certain objects which provide sufficient contrast. Underneath
the stage and resting upon the substage of the microscope a piece of
roughly ground pure white opal glass is placed, and a strong beam of
light is focused on it by means of a bull’s-eye condenser, or other suitable
optical arrangement. ‘This gives a pure white background on which the
object stands out with great clearness. As the rays of light are broken
up and diffused by the rough surface of the glass, there is an entire absence
of reflection from one part of the object to another which results in a
corresponding distinctness and sharpness of the image.
Professor Carpenter remarked that a somewhat similar result is obtained
in many dissecting microscopes by the use of an opaque white paper disc
in place of the usual reflecting mirror.
D. McARDLE showed dissected capsules of Tetraphis pellucida from
specimens recently collected in the Co. Wicklow, disclosing the spores
and showing the possible origin of the peristome, composed of four solid
conical teeth, derived from the fission of the whole cellular tissue of the
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interior of the lid. These solid undifferentiated teeth of the peristome
appear to mark a very primitive stage in that organ, which is so highly
developed, and so characteristic in other mosses. There is also a peculiar
feature in the protonema which develops curious ‘‘ frondiform’”’ leaves :
these disappear before the young stems are developed, and are therefore
often overlooked. In these peculiarities, Tetraphis is not approached
by any other mosses, excepting the exotic genus Calomnium.
NOTES,
GEOLOGY.
Beekite.
In the Report and Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club
for tg11-12, recently published, Mr. James Strachan has an important
illustrated paper on beekite, or cycloidal chalcedony.
ZOOLOGY.
Insects on the Great Blasket and in West Kerry.
In the Ivish Naturalist of October, 1912, Mr. A. W. Stelfox records the
land and freshwater mollusca found during his visit to the Blaskets in
the preceding June in company with Mr. Praeger. A few beetles were
collected on Great Blasket on this occasion ; although they are common
insects they are worth recording from so isolated a locality :—Cicindela
campestris, Cyclonotum orbiculare, Phyllopertha horticola, Athous haemor-
yhoidalis, Byrrhus pilula, and Barynolus Schonherri.
Mr. Stelfox remarks that although no natural habitats with permanent
water appear to exist on the island, yet two species of water-beetles were
collected there ; these were identified by Mr. Balfour Browne. The
first, Helophorus viridicollis, Steph., occurred under clumps of sphagnum
in damp places on the summit between the Signal Tower and Slievedonagh,
The second, Anacaena globulus Payk., was found on the cliffs at Foilbeg.
A single example of the common earwig, Forficula auricularia, with
rather long forceps (7 mm.) was also collected on Great Blasket.
On the mainland at Cloghane the uncommon black variety of Carabus
gvanulatus (var. interstitialis Duft.) was taken. It would appear to be
of rather frequent occurrence in the south-west of Ireland. Also, the
wing-cases of Cavabus clathratus, and two fine examples of Cavrabus
glabyatus on the high pass at Connor Hill,
J. N. HALBERT.
National Museum, Dublin.
1913. Notes. 7 63
Woodcock Carrying Young.
While walking through a wood near Old Conna, in the Co. Dublin, on
the 8th May, 1909, I flushed a Woodcock which flew into a gorse bush
about 20 yards off. Immediately afterwards I saw three young Wood-
cocks, about as big as Robins, on the ground where the old bird had been.
Almost at once she flew back, picked up one young one and carried it about
15 yards to a gorse bush, into which she disappeared. The two other
young birds ran away, and took refuge in another bush. I remained
on the ground for some time, but saw no more of the birds. As far as I
could see, the old bird carried the young one close to her body, her legs
and feet being placed under the little bird as a support, in fact ‘‘ she
clasped it to her bosom.’’ As there is a good deal of controversy as to how
Woodcocks carry their young, I have been asked to send this account to
the Ivish Naturalist.
GEORGE C, May.
Dublin,
Whooper Swans in County Down.
I witnessed the arrival of five Whooper Swans, Cygnus musicus, on a
lake here during the afternoon of 1st December, 1912. They were im-
mediately mobbed by the resident Mute Swans, C. o/or, and chased about
the lake, about half of which on this day was covered with ice. After
dark I still heard the calls of these Swans on the lake, but next day the
birds had departed. This is the same lake referred to in Thompson’s
‘“ Natural History of Ireland ”’ (vol. ili., p. 20) where four ‘‘ Wild Swans ”’
remained for three weeks in 1845,
NEVIN H. FOSTER.
Hillsborough, Co. Down.
Grey-lag Goose in Wexford.
On the 11th December, 1912, I was in Wexford town, and saw three
or four Grey-lag Geese hanging up in the shops. __I have never seen this
species in Wexford before, the bird usually shot being the White-fronted,
Wild Geese seem to be increasing in numbers in this county. We used
to have them only in hard winters, but now some of them are here every
year.
G. E. H. BARrett-HAMILTon.
Kilmanock, Co. Wexford.
Daubenton’s Bat in County Waterford.
It may be well to place on record that there is a colony of these Lats
at Cappagh, Co. Waterford. Mr. R. J. Ussher very kindly sent me a
specimen some time ago, and I think he hasalso sent scme to the Naticral
Museum, Dublin.
G, E.H, BARREtT-HAMILTON.
Kilmanock, Co, Wexford.
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BOTANY.
Wheat Experiments at the Albert Farm, Glasnevin, Dublin.
In order to test the yielding capacities and quality of several French
and certain other varieties of wheat, the Department of Agriculture
carried out a series of field tests at the Albert Agricultural College Farm,
Glasnevin, in 1911. The results of these tests were published in the
Department’s Annual Report on Wheat Experiments for that season.
The tests have been repeated this year, and the list has been supplemented
by four other varieties. Three of these were Danish wheats imported by
the Department from Copenhagen, and one a variety grown to some
extent as a spring wheat in Counties Carlow and Kildare.
The yields for 1912 are, with one exception, considerably below those
for 1911. The average yield of wheat on the farm for a number of years
past has been about 12 barrels per statute acre. All the French wheats
show a large decrease, and the only increased yield for the whole series is
that of “ Red Fife,”’ the seed of which was obtained from the produce of
some hand-selected ears grown by the Department in Ig1o.
The three Danish varieties, ‘‘ Queen Wilhelmina,” ‘‘ Tystofte Small
Wheat,” and ‘‘ Danish Square Head,’’ gave very good yields. In point
of quality “ Red Fife ’’ was undoubtedly the best wheat of the series,
next in order coming “‘ Burgoyne’s Fife.” ‘‘ Queen Wilhelmina,” a white
wheat, may be placed next, and then, a long way behind, “ White
Marvel.” .
“ Tystofte Small Wheat ’’ and ‘ Danish Square Head ”’ are varieties of
the Square Head Master type, but not so coarse. The French varieties,
with the exception of ‘‘ White Marvel,” are very poor quality, ‘“ Dread-
nought’ and “ Perfection’’ being wholly unsuited for milling require-
ments. The partial failure of ‘‘ Perfection” this year was in large
measure due to bad germination of the seed. ‘‘ April Red,” a variety
resembling “‘ Red Fife’’ in shape of ear, excepting that it has a distinct
awn, is a late spring wheat. In yield it does not equal “‘ Red Fife,” to
which variety it is also inferior in quality.
Regarding the two new hybrid wheats, “ Little Joss’ and “ Burgoyne’s
Fife,” while the former is undoubtedly the heavier yield, in quality it is
greatly inferior to ‘‘ Burgoyne’s Fife.” Other things, such as quality of
straw, being equal, there is nothing to recommend “ Little Joss”’ in
preference to ‘‘ Tystofte Small Wheat,’ a variety which by reason of its
productivity and generally acceptable quality is grown extensively in
Denmark.
Of all the varieties tested, ‘‘ Queen Wilhelmina,” on account of its
yielding capacity and quality, appears at present to be the most desirable
wheat, and certainly merits the attention of Irish wheat growers.
Polygala vulgaris var. grandiflora.
To the Journal of Botany for July, 1912, Mr. A. Bennett contributes
a note, in the course of which he points out that the correct name of the
famous Ben Bulben Polygala should be P. vulgaris L. yar. Bajlii (Nyman),
April, 1913. The Irish Naturalist. 65
BEES AND FLOWERS.
BY C. B. MOFFAT, B.A., M.R.LA.
(Read before the Dublin Naturalists’ Field Club, 11th February, 1913.)
I was standing one day by a large bed of Wall-flowers,
at which great numbers of the Honey-Bee were busy
extracting honey. The Wall-flowers were of three colours—
the three old-fashioned varieties with which everyone is
most familiar: that is to say, the bright ofange-yellow,
the deep mahogany brown, and the mixture of the two tints,
brown streakings on yellow ground. Watching the bees,
I was struck with the fact that every one of them was most
particular in sticking to Wall-flowers of one colour, and
neglecting both the other colours. A _ horticulturist who
wanted to keep his varieties pure might have trusted the
whole swarm of bees on that bed. There were crowds
of bees at every colour—no preference whatever was shown
for yellow or streaked or brown. But no bee that was
working at brown left it for yellow or streaked ; no bee that
was working at yellow took the slightest notice of streaked
or brown; and no bee that was working at the streaked
transgressed for a moment either to the uniformly brown
or the uniformly yellow.
Of course, I would have been surprised to see a bee—
especially a Honey-Bee—fly from a Wall-flower to a
flower of a different kind, or from a flower of a different
kind to a Wall-flower. That would be a violation of the
well-known bee-rule against mixing either the honey or
the pollen of two different species of plant. The rule
that a bee should confine itself to one kind of plant during a
journey is followed—though not with the same degree of
_strictness—by every kind of bee with which I have any
acquaintance ; and of course it must have had enormously
beneficial results for the plants in securing the fertilisation
of each flower with pollen of its own species. Not only bees
but many other insects, and particularly the hawk-moths,
follow the same rule, and so become important agents in
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fertilisation. But that is a very different thing from
sticking to one variety like the brown or streaked Wall-
flower : in other words, letting distinctions of colour stand
in their way, when a flower shows all the other features
of the one they are looking for.
On the other hand, I am sorry to say that bumble-bees
sometimes show a lack of botanical ability which would
rather shock a good many members of the Field Club. I
was standing one day in a bit of waste ground, where two
very common plants, the Hedge Woundwort (Stachys syl-
vatica) and the Marsh Woundwort (Stachys palustris) were
growing together, both in great profusion. A bumble-bee
arrived, of the species Bombus hortorum (one of the black
and yellow kinds) which evidently had been gathering from
Marsh Woundwort in an adjoining field, where that species
grew by itself. But when this bee got among the mixed
lot of plants on the waste ground, its perplexity between
the two species became really quite comical. On its first
meeting with the Hedge Woundwort it darted off again,
as if seeing that there was something wrong. Not satisfied,
it returned, again darted off, then tried another flower,
which was also Hedge Woundwort, finally gathered a
little, and then appeared puzzled again when it got back
to Marsh. In fact, after wasting a good deal of time with
its various hesitations, this bee totally gave up the attempt
to distinguish between Stachys sylvatica and Stachys palus-
tyvis, and proceeded to gather with the utmost impartiality
from both. Moreover, this was not a case of individual
stupidity, for a few minutes later a second bee of the same
species (Bombus hortorum) arrived, and showed the same
failure to discriminate between these two allied plants.
Now, to our eyes the Hedge and Marsh Woundworts show
no more than a very ordinary family likeness. Even if we
confine ourselves to the features that a bee might be ex-
pected to attend to, the colour of the corolla is much deeper
purple in the Hedge than in the Marsh, the scent—if we
can call it such—is far stronger and nastier in Hedge
Woundwort, and that plant has also flowers with deeper
tubes—a matter of so much importance to the bees that
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according to Miller one of our bumble-bees (the common
Bombus terrestris) is unable, with its short proboscis, to
get at the nectar of Stachys sylvatica at all, though it gathers
freely from S. palustris, Taking all these differences into
consideration, it appears to me very singular that bees
should show themselves quite unable to distinguish between
the two Woundworts, although they certainly show when
they first pass from one to the other a suspicion in their
minds that there is something wrong.
It may be asked, why should a bee distinguish one
kind of flower from another, if both kinds contain good
honey? I confess that, except for the benefit of the plants,
I don’t see why it should. The fact remains that in
ordinary cases it is what the bees do.
I think I remarked at a former meeting of this Club,
apropos of the Clare Island flora, that a solitary seed borne
across the sea to an island where its species was previously
unknown, even if it had the not-very-likely good fortune to
find room for development and become a flowering plant,
would still have very little chance of becoming a parent
of other seedlings if it depended for that purpose—as so
many plants do—on the visits of insects. I did not mean
merely (as I think some members understood me to do)
that no pollen from another plant of its kind could be
carried to it; for that is not always necessary to effect
fertilisation when a number of flowers occur on the same
plant. I meant that no insect of the right kind would
go to it at all, unless the plant from which it had last
been gathering was of the same species, which ex hypothesi
it could not have been. I may be asked whether the rule of
regularity is sufficiently adhered to to have this practical
effect, and I admit that departures from it occur, The
case of the Woundworts was an instance, and plenty more
might be given. But that the effect I have claimed does
follow in nature—I think I can illustrate by an observation
I made (in July, 1904) on some flowers of our commonest
Orchis, O. maculata. One can tell by pulling an Orchis
flower open whether it has been visited by a fertilising
insect or not, for if it has the insect will have carried away
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one at least—possibly both—of the pollen masses or
pollinia, adhering to its proboscis or to its face. I went
to a small bog where Orchis maculata was growing in
very great abundance—so abundantly that it would cer-
tainly have taken an enormous multitude of insect visitors
to fertilise all the flowers. I gathered here one spike, and
examined all its open flowers—nineteen in number. In
only one of the nineteen flowers—the uppermost and
therefore the most recently opened—I found both the pollinia
still present. In three others one pollinitum was left
while one had been removed. In all the remaining fifteen
both pollinia had been carried away. I then went to a field
that was not so well adapted for bog—loving plants, where
a single spike of Orchis maculata was growing by itself.
I opened its flowers, beginning with the lowest and there-
fore longest expanded, and I found in every flower both
pollinia still in their places. No bee or other useful insect
had been to that Orchis, though hundreds and hundreds of
such insects must have been at work at flowers of its kind
in a bog not halfa mile away. That was isolation on a very
smallscale. What would be its chance of fertilisation if that
plant of Orchis maculata had been growing on an island
separated by miles of sea from the nearest ground where
another plant of its kind occurred ?
But I now come to a strange case of an apparent de-
parture from rule, which has been a subject of special
interest to me for the past eighteen years. On June 3rd,
1895, walking through a wood in County Wexford, I
noticed a specimen of the Common Carder Bee (Bombus
muscorum, as we used to call it, though I am told I must
now, to my great regret, call it Bombus agrorum) gathering
honey from a flower of that pretty Vetchling, Lathyrus
macrorrhizus, or the Heath Pea. I watched it, and found
that after imbibing nectar from two or three plants of
Vetchling it suddenly descended on a flower spike of the
blue Bugle (Ajuga reptans), but after gathering from that
it went again to Lathyrus. So long as I watched that bee
it moved about dividing its attention between those two
plants, but touching no others, About half an hour after-
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wards, in a field some distance away, I saw another bee
of the same species, also gathering from Lathyrus mac-
vorrhizus, and it was also dividing its attention between
that plant and Ajuga reptans. And in the course of the
same walk I came on a third specimen—Bombus agrorum
again—gathering in about equal proportions from Vetchling
and Bugle, and restricting itself with the same precision as
the others to those two plants alone.
Now, of course these three occurrences were not a mere
accidental coincidence. It was evidently a habit of Bombus
agrorum, for some reason, to mix the honey of Lathyrus
macrorrhizus with that of Ajuga reptans. In fact, I have
never since been in the country in early June without
noticing some instances of this singular behaviour. I
have seen no bee but the Carder Bee gathering at all from
Lathyrus macrorrhizus ; and I have never, since my atten-
tion was drawn to the matter in 1895, seen a bee gathering
from Lathyrus which did not, on being watched, prove to
be also visiting the flowers of Ajuga reptans.
The converse, however, is not so strictly true. I have
seen bees of this species at the Bugle when there was no
Vetchling for them to gather from. And as it is sometimes
said the exception proves the rule, I will go on to say what
happened on some of these occasions.
Firstly : an incident that greatly pleased me happened
on June 3rd, 1901. Isawa Bombus agrorum gathering from
Bugle, in a part of the woods where Bugle was flowering
in extreme profusion (carpeting the ground, you might say)
but not a bit of Lathyrus macrorrhizus was anywhere in
sight. I watched that bee, and after gathering from two
spikes of Bugle it got restless, flew to many other spikes
without gathering, then went on a slow roving flight for
perhaps 200 yards through the wood, till I saw it suddenly
pounce on something low down among the herbage. I
ran up, and there was the bee clasping in triumph a flower
of Lathyrus macrorrhizus. And after a good draught had
been taken from the flowers of that one plant, which it had
so cleverly found, it went back to Bugle, gathered from
two more spikes of that species, and once more flew away,
for what purpose I can only guess.
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But towards the middle of June the Vetchling goes out
of blossom; and the Bugle remains, and after that I
notice Bombus agrorum continues gathering from Bugle,
but now it mixes the nectar of that plant with that of the
Wild Raspberry (Rubus Idaeus), or else with that of the
Dwarf Red-Rattle (Pedicularis sylvatica). There may be
other mixtures adopted, but those are the two most
favoured—always presuming the absence of Lathyrus
macrorrhizus. :
Now, a reason for this mixture (from the bee’s point of
view) presents itself in the fact that I have sometimes
seen Carder Bees in a state of complete stupefaction on
flowers of Ajuga reptans. Indeed, once (June 11th, 1907)
I noticed as many as four stupefied specimens of Bombus
agrorum on flowers of the Bugle within a space of six square
yards. Evidently the nectar of that plant is a bit too
strong for them, and needs to be diluted. As far as I can
make out, the honey of the Heath Pea is never taken
except to dilute that of the Bugle, so I suppose it is of a
specially washy nature. If I am right on that point,
Lathyrus macrorrmzus depends for its fertilization on
having the Bugle for one of its neighbours. But of course
its honey may be taken for other purposes, and by other
insects, and I would like to invite further attention to the
question.
I could not exhaust this subject without bringing in the
peculiar conduct I noticed one day in a Bee Hawk-Moth
(Macroglossa bombyliformis) which I was watching as it
was drinking honey from the flowers of Pedicularts sylvatica.
I may say that the Bee Hawk-Moth is quite as particular
as a bumble-bee in observing the rule that one sort of flower
should be kept to at a time. This Bee Hawk-Moth, while
I watched it, gathered from 250 flowers of the Dwarf Red-
Rattle, and touched no other flower, though there were
plenty of others about. But still I thought it behaved
in a very erratic, not to say stupid, fashion. For during the
course of those 250 visits to the pink flowers of the Red-
Rattle, it turned aside no fewer than fifteen times on catching
sight of clumps of blue Milkwort, which, of course, were
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not the flowers it was looking for, and which it invariably
left without gathering from them as soon as it saw what
they were. But why in the world did it make so many
as fifteen mistakes, all at the same flower, and that a blue
one, when the flowers from which it was gathering were
pink 2? Could the moth be colour-blind ? No, it was not,
for it passed many clumps of Milkwort that were pink
without noticing them at all, and only tried at the blue
ones. So it saw the difference between blue and pink in
the Milkwort, and yet it made no confusion between pink
Milkwort and pink Red-Rattle, but made, as I thought at
the time, the far more unaccountable blunder of confusing
blue Milkwort with pink Pedicularis.
That was on June roth, 1897. On May 23rd in the
following year I met with another specimen of the Bee
Hawk-Moth whose conduct throws, I think, a little light
on that of the insect which made so many abortive darts
at the blue Milkwort. It was one of four Bee Hawk-Moths
which I watched during that day, for there seemed to have
been rather an outburst of them. Two were visiting
exclusively the flowers of the Primrose, which they are well
adapted for fertilising ; the third was gathering exclusively
from Red-Rattle—also a flower very specially adapted for
fertilisation by insects with long probosces ; and the fourth
was also gathering from KRed-Rattle, but turned aside,
and this time not in vain, to gather (or rather drink) from
a blue flower—and that blue flower was our friend Ajuga
veptans.
The Bee Hawk-Moth, therefore, resembles the Carder
Bee in liking the honey of Ajuga reptans, but apparently
it further resembles it in not daring to take that honey
except in a mixture with something else ; and we find the
curious further point of similarity that the honey of the
Dwarf Red-Rattle is found by both insects a suitable
antidote to the too narcotic though nice nectar of the
Bugle. I think it is only fair to suggest that the Hawk-
Moth which I thought so stupid the previous year in con-
fusing blue Milkwort with pink Red-Rattle was really
acting quite rationally in making all those plunges at the
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blue Milkwort, because it was in hopes that the blue spikes
might prove to be those of the blue Bugle.
But now, how can we justify this strange peculiarity
of the Bugle blossom? It is a plant well-known to be
‘laid out”? for cross-fertilization by long-tongued insects,
like bumble-bees and hawk-moths. Does it want, then,
to be cross-fertilised by them, or does it not ? It produces
honey that these useful insects like ; but it compels them,
after drinking a little, to go away to some other sort of
flower, involving no doubt, considerable waste of pollen, or
else, if they do not, it stupefies the insects, and puts a total
stop to their day’s work.
I can only offer one suggestion, and perhaps it may
be thought extremely far-fetched, to explain this eccentric
quality in the nectar of the Bugle. The Bugle has been
well named Ajuga reptans. It spreads by creeping with
astonishing vigour. One can judge of this sometimes in a
wood by coming to a patch of ground carpeted by Bugle
of some unusual colour—possibly white or perhaps pale
lavender—showing how far a single off-coloured plant
has extended itself by means of its creeping scions. 5o
it would seem that a bee or hawk-moth which confined
itself exclusively to Bugle might move about for a long
time, and visit large numbers of flower-spikes, and yet
be only gathering from the same plant, so that real cross-
fertilization would not occur. But if the bee has to go off
at frequent intervals to search for Lathyrus macrorrhizus, or
some equally useful antidote, the chance is vastly increased
that on its return to Bugle it will find itself in the
neighbourhood of a new plant, so that if enough of the
pollen still remains on it, there will be real cross-ferti-
lisation, which, as Darwin has shown, is generally much
better than fertilisation from flowers of the same plant.
If-any member of the Field Club visits the Aran Islands!
when Ajuga pyramidalis is in bloom there, he might help to
'Mr. Praeger has kindly pointed out to me that parts of the Clare
mainland would afford a moie favourable field. I think the observa-
tions would best be made in a native habitat of the plant, where the
insects visiting it would be acquainted with its properties.
1913. Morrat.—Aees and Flowers. 73
clear up this point by ascertaining what bees or other
jong-tongued insects visit the flowers of that species, and
whether they persevere in gathering from it exclusively,
or go off at frequent intervals to take sips of something else.
As Ajuga Pyramidalis does not spread by creeping scions,
it has not the motive I have suggested in the case of its
cousin A. veptans for driving its most welcome visitors
frequently away.
I hope I have now shown that bees act with more
intelligence and more botanical knowledge than some
writers of to-day give them credit for in their honey-
gathering and pollen-gathering expeditions. An ingenious
theory was started some years ago by Mr. E. Kay Robinson,
that it was all a mistake to suppose that the colours or
markings of flowers had any such purpose as to attract or to
guide insect-visitors—that insects, in fact, do not mind
them, and that such colours are really designed to warn
off grazing or browsing animals from eating the flowers
when they are feeding upon the leaves. I have not left
myself time to discuss that theory as I would like; but
briefly I would say, that I think the most primitive of all
floral colours—namely, yellow—may very possibly have
been evolved for some such purpose as Mr. Robinson thinks.
Yellow was the easiest colour for a modified leaf to take,
because it is simply the colour of a faded leaf; and as
browsing animals mostly prefer fresh leaves to faded,
one can fancy that the device of turning yellow prematurely
might prove a great success in keeping primitive flowers
’ from being eaten. But if that is the object of floral colours
all round, yellow—the most primitive—is still the most
successful colour on the face of the earth to-day. Both
in individuals and in species yellow flowers far outnumber
the rest ; and there would, therefore, be more disadvantage
than profit in advancing from a warning colour so univer-
sally well-known and successful to a high tint like blue,
which, though representing the topmost rung of the ladder,
appears to have been the least successful in the competition
for space. On the other hand, for the purpose of guiding
insects that want to stick to one sort of flower at a time,
it is an advantage to every flower that wants such visitors
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to differ in colour as much as it can from all its neighbours
of different species. It does not want to be visited in
mistake for them, nor does it want them to be visited in
mistake for it. And bees, as I have shown, need such
teaching ; they make mistakes; they cannot distinguish
Stachys sylvatica from Stachys palustris, and even the
Honey-Bee, according to Miller, sees no difference between
the flowers of our three common Buttercups :— Ranunculus
bulbosus, R. acris, and R. repens. This makes the acute
‘discrimination they do show in other cases the more sig-
nificant; and its helpfulness to the plants is evidently a
vital force in the story of their evolution. I do not suppose
that the so-called highest colour in the evolutionary scale
is any better than those beneath it; the advantage seems
to he merely in having as many different colours as possible
by way of aids to discrimination. For my part, I think
the beginning of all colour evolution in flowers was pre-
mature fading; that before there were yellow flowers
yellow appearedin faded leaves, as it does to-day; that before
there were white flowers some yellow flowers turned white
in fading, as the Lesser Celandine does to-day ; that before
there were pink flowers some white flowers faded pink, as
the Hawthorn does to-day; and that before there were
blue flowers some pink or crimson flowers faded blue, or
nearly blue, as the Heath Pea does to-day. That prepared
the way for possible development by favour of insects ;
but how they came to favour the seemingly faded in pre-
ference to the seemingly fresh is a question in prehistoric
economy which I have no present intention of attempting
to solve. I think further study of insects in the field may
some day give us the clue.
Dublin.
1913. WysE—Lefidoptera and Coleoptera from Co. Kerry. 75
LEPIDOPTERA AND COLEOPTERA FROM
CO. KERRY.
SY; Lo: He BONALAR EE iW YSE;
Among my entomological captures from Kerry last
summer, chiefly from the neighbourhood of Killarney,
the following are perhaps worth mentioning.
LEPIDOPTERA.
Epinephele janira, L. var.—tI took on July 16th at the foot of Manger-
ton, a female example, which has two black spots below the large apical
eye-spot on the fore-wing. These spots are also reproduced on the under
side. I took a second very similar example, also a female, at Glenbeigh,
on August Ist. Kane, in his “ Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Ireland,”
p- 12, mentions a form which agrees very closely with this: “ The Rev.
James Bristow has a specimen with a small ocellus towards the anal angle,
and a minute one between it and the apical. This aberration is evidently
a reversion to the general design of the Satyridae, and thus is very in-
teresting.” .
Acronycta euphorbiae var. montivaga, Gn.—A large dark female example
which I took on the wall of the Caragh Lake Hotel, seems to be identical
with this alpine form. Rare in Ireland.
*Hydroecia crinanensis, Burrows.—Two specimens (male and female)
from Valentia Island are referable to this recently described species
according to Rev. C. R. N. Burrows to whom I showed them. I may
remark en passant that a series taken whilst on a visit to my friend, Mr.
W. F. de Vismes Kane, at Drumreaske, Co. Monaghan, in August, IgI1,
also proved to be crinanensis. My best thanks are due to Mr. Burrows
for kindly examining and determining all these. To those lepidopterists
interested in the subject, I would call attention to a valuable paper by
Mr. Burrows: “ On the Nictitans group of the genus Hydroecia (Trams.
Entom. Soc. London, Feb. 10, I912), in which the _ differences
separating the various species are clearly set forth.
*Pechypogon barbalis, Clerck.—Killarney : an example came to light.
Only one doubtful record is given by Kane in his Catalogue. Determined
by Mr. J. H. Durrant of the British Museum (Natural History).
*Cidaria prunata, L.—Killarney : two specimens.
*Platyptilia Bertrami, Rossl.—Killarney : two specimens. Determined
by Mr. Durrant.
*Homoeosoma binaevella, HS.—I took a specimen at the foot of Manger-
ton on July 16th. Determined by Mr. J. N. Halbert of the Dublin Musenm
and confirmed by Mr. Durrant. Only one previous record—trom Co. Cork,
76 The lrish Naturalist. April,
COLEOPTERA.
Carabus granulatus L. var. Interstitialis, Duft—Two specimens from
the summit of Mangerton. Mr. Halbert thinks are referable to this
aipine form characterized by the smoother elytra.
C. glabratus, Payk.—A living specimen was given me by the game-
keeper of Mr. Vincent of Muckross demesne who had found it near the
top of Manyerton.
Pelophila borealis, Payk.—A single example on the edge of L. Leane,
Killarney. Repeated searches failed to discover others.
*Haliplus fiuviatilis, Aub¢.—Killarney : one specimen. Determined
by Mr. E. A. Newbury.
*Homalota longicornis, Grav.—Killarney : one specimen. Determined
by Mr. Halbert.
*Philonthus agilis, Grav.—Rossbcigh : one specimen. Determined by
Mr. Halbert, and confirmed by Mr. Newbury. Only recorded doubtfully
from Ireland before.
Aphodius foetens, F.—Fairly common on Rossbeigh sandhills in August
in stercore.
A. lapponum, Gyll.—On Mangerton, Killarney, and at Glenbeigh on
high ground in Stercove ovino—not uncommon.
*Sitones puncticollis, Steph.—Rossbeigh: one example. Determined
by Rev. W. F. Jobnson.
The species with an asterisk prefixed are new records
for Kerry.
I have much pleasure m here returning thanks to
Messrs. W. F. Johnson and J. N. Halbert, also to Messrs.
J. H. Durrant and E. A. Newbury, for kind help in
naming species,
Ealing Common, London, W.
IRISH SOCIETIES.
ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Recent gifts include a Himalayan Bear from Lieut. Stoney, a pair of
Rabbits and a pair of Cavies from Mr. H. L. Guinness, eight Goldfinches
from Mr. W. W. Despard, and a Snake from Mr. G. C. L. Griffin. <A single
Lion cub has been born, the parents being ‘‘Conn”’ and “* Mitze’’; also six
Dingo puppies. Among the noteworthy purchases are a young female
Chimpanzee, an Aye-aye, two Himalayan Bears, a Common Seal, ten Grey
Squirrels, a pair of Purple Gallinules, five Silver Pheasants, a Golden
1913. Trish Societies. 77
Plover, a Short-eared Owl, a Gadwall and a Merlin. A White-collared
Mangabey has been received on deposit.
The Aye-aye (Chetromys madagascariensts), the only species of a
most remarkable lemuroid family, is one of the most interesting animals
received in the Gardens for many years. Very few of these mysterious
nocturnal creatures from the deep Malagasy forests have ever been shown
alive in Europe. The Aye-aye enjoys sponge-cake soaked in milk, a
somewhat unnatural food, and it is instructive to watch how this substance
is handled with the excessively long and slender middle finger, whose
normal function is to draw succulent grubs out of their burrows in the
trunks and branches of trees.
A pair of Dublin-bred Lion cubs have been selected by the Council for
presentation to the newly established Scottish Zoological Society, whose
gardens at Edinburgh will be opened in the summer.
DUBLIN MICROSCOPICAL CLUB.
FEBRUARY 12.—The Club met at Leinster House. D. M‘ARDLE
(Vice-President) took the chair, and showed fertile specimens of Lejewnea
serpyllifolia Lib., var. cavifolia Ehrb., which he had recently collected
in Co. Wicklow. In this country it is extremely rare, being previously
recorded only from Co. Kerry, where it grows among mosses and
mixed with L. serpyllifolia, which is common through the country. The
Co. Wicklow specimens of the var. cavifolia are larger than those pre-
viously found ; and the plant grows in some quantity on the trunks of
old trees at about 800 feet elevation. An account will appear in a paper
now in preparation on the Musci and Hepaticae of the Glen of the Downs,
with observations by Professor Kaalaas, of Christiania, and Professor
A. Evans, of Yale, Newhaven, Conn., who have examined specimens
from Co. Wicklow, as it is also native in both countries.
Dr. B. B. FERRAR showed young living larvae of Salmon and Trout
from the fish hatchery at the Dublin Zoological Gardens.
BELFAST NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB.
JANUARY 29.—GEOLOGICAL SECTION.—Lecture on ‘“‘ Some Features of
the Co. Antrim Basaltic Plateau,’’ by JAMES STRACHAN. W. J.C. Tomlinson,
Chairman of the Section, presided. The lecturer gave a general de-
scription of the main features that characterise the basaltic lavas of
Co. Antrim, and a petrological classification of the various types of ba-
saltic rock found in the county, and showed the relationship existing
between the lava-flows and the intrusive vents from which they issued.
The interesting tube-amygdaloid from the base of a lava-flow was ex-
hibited and discussed. The lecturer referred to the superiority of the
dolerite as a material for roads, as compared with basalt, and showed
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reason for this from the microscopic structure of the two rocks. Mr.
Strachan pointed out that the zeolites were undoubtedly of magmatic
origin, and not produced by rock-weathering or solfataric action as
generally supposed. The lecturer’s views on this point have been ac-
cepted recently by leading British petrologists. The origin of the iron
ores, he said, was a subject which had received much discussion, and the
older views on the matter attributed them to lacustrine conditions.
Recently, the Geological Survey had published a memoir in which the
iron ores and bauxite were described as having largely originated from
the weathering of the basalt im situ. The lecturer ventured to dispute
this theory as applied to at least the uppermost series of the interbasaltic
beds, which undoubtedly showed stratigraphical evidence of sedimen-
tation.
A discussion followed in which A. R. Dwerryhouse, F.c.s., R. J. Welch,
M.R.I.A., S. A. Bennett, B.sc., Robert Bell, and the Chairman took part.
The proceedings terminated with a vote of congratulation to Robert
Bell, on his recent election to the Membership of the Mineralogical Society
of London.
FEBRUARY 12.—ARCHAEOLOGICAL SECTION. —W. J. FENNELL,
F.R.I.B.A., in the chair. Two addresses were given on this date ; the first
by a visitor, W. MAyYEs, on the more notable of the Irish Medallists.
The lecturer exhibited about fifty examples of Irish medallists’ work.
J. A. S. STENDALL followed with a paper on “ Irish Tokens.”
FEBRUARY 1I8.—R. J. WELCH in the chair. A. M‘I. CLELAND read
a paper on ‘‘ The Gorges of the Tarn, Cevennes.”’ The paper was illus-
trated by a series of views taken last summer by the lecturer.
The following were elected members of the Junior Section of the
Society :—Miss M. Kk. Duffin, Miss F. M. Ritchie, Miss J. Doherty, Miss N.
Humphreys, Miss S. Bell, Miss I. Boyd, and Miss Montgomery.
DUBLIN NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB.
FEBRUARY 8. VISIT TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—About thirty
members and visitors were conducted through the gardens by Professor
G. H. Carpenter (Hon. Sec. R.Z.S.1.), Dr. B. B. Ferrar (Superintendent),.
and Professor J. Bayley Butler. A special demonstration was given in the
monkey-house, where Mr. Walter Rothschild’s great Chimpanzee ‘‘ Tom,”
the Hoolock Gibbon, the Spider Monkeys, and the collection of Ruffed
Lemurs were greatly admired. After a visit to the carnivore house at
feeding time, the party proceeded to the aquarium where the New Zealand
Tuatara and the Mexican Axolotl were shown and discussed. Finally the
new fish-hatchery was inspected, eggs and young larvae of Salmon, Brown
Trout, and Rainbow Trout being seen in the trays, and studied under
the microscope.
1913. The Belfast Naturalists Field Club. 79
THE BELFAST NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB.
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY.
At Whitsuntide this year the Belfast Naturalists’ Field
Club, the oldest Society of the kind in Ireland, and one of
the oldest in the United Kingdom, will celebrate the fiftieth
year of its existence. Founded in 1863, as a result of the
interest aroused by science classes established by the
Science and Art Department, and conducted by Professor
Ralph Tate, the Club has for half a century been the centre
and inspiration of natural history and geological research
in the North of Ireland, and its output of work has been
such as any local society might be proud of. The Club
now summons its friends to come and join with it in cele-
brating its fiftieth anniversary. Many scientific societies
and institutions are sending official representatives to the
meeting, among others, the Geological Society of London,
the North Staffordshire Field Club, the Royal Irish Academy,
the Royal Dublin Society, the Royal College of Science for
Ireland ; and naturalists from all parts of our own country
will be present.
An interesting programme of meetings and excursions
has been arranged. On Saturday, May 10, the President
will receive the delegates and visitors in the Examination
Hall of the Queen’s University, and short speeches will be
delivered by several original members of the Club and
others. A short excursion will be held in the afternoon,
followed by a conversazione in the Assembly Buildings.
On the following day (Sunday) a number of unofficial ex-
cursions will be organized. On Monday Newcastle wiil
be visited, and Sheve Donard, the highest Ulster hill,
will be ascended. In the evening, under the presidency
of the Vice-Chancellor of the University, an address will
be delivered by Dr. Scharff on “‘ The Relationships of the
Irish Fauna.”’
80 The Lrish Natusalist. April,
Next morning the party will start for a five-days’ trip
along the north coast of Derry and Antrim. For the first
day alternative excursions are arranged to the beautiful
basaltic precipice of Benevenagh, with its wealth of alpine
plants, and the sand-dunes of Portstewart, famous for
their remains of Neolithic man. The two parties will
proceed together in the evening to the Causeway, where
after dinner R. Ll. Praeger will speak on ‘“‘ Problems of the
Irish Flora.”” Wednesday will be devoted to a thorough
examination of the Causeway, and the fine headlands to the
east of it, and in the evening Dr. Dwerryhouse will address
the members on “Features of Local Geology.” Next
day the party will move on to Ballycastle, visiting the
famous Whitepark Bay, and the remarkable Chaik headland
of Kinbane. Friday will be devoted to Fair Head and
Murlough Bay, the most beautiful and interesting area
in the North-east of Ireland, on account of its imposing
scenery, the extraordinary variety of its rocks, and the
richness of its fauna and flora. On Saturday a short
excursion will be made to Glenshesk, and visitors will reach
Belfast in time to catch the evening steamers to English
and Scottish ports.
Members of kindred societies and others interested in
natural science are cordially invited to attend the meeting.
A full illustrated programme, with time-tables, prices of
excursions, &c.,1is about to be issued, and may be obtained
from the Secretary of the Club, A. W. Stelfox, Scottish
Temperance Buildings, Belfast, who will aiso furnish aay
further information required.
The occasion is exceptionally noteworthy as marking
an epoch in the progress of natural history studies in
Ireland. We hope that the meeting will be, in all respects,
a brilliant success and that the Belfast Field Club may
start on a new half-century of strenuous and fruitful
work.
a
:
1913, Notes. 8I
NOTES,
BOTANY.
Some Results of the International Phytogeographical Excursion,
1911.
Attention should be drawn to a series of articles which have been
appearing in the “‘ New Phytologist,’’ 1911 and 1912, on impressions and
results of the international meeting. Most of the foreign botanists who
were present have recorded their impressions or discussed the ecological
or floristic problems arising from their perambulation of the British
Isles—H. C. Cowles, F. E. Clements, Jean Massart, C. A. M. Lindman,
E. A. Riibel, C. H. Ostenfeld, P. von Graebner, Oscar Drude, C. von
Schréter ; and of the British members of the party, A. G. Tansley, G.
C. Druce, and C. E. Moss have also contributed. Irish vegetation and
Irish species come in for a certain amount of attention, and in view of
recent discussion on the origin of the British (and Irish) flora, Professor
Drude’s advocacy of the great age of much of our present flora is of much
interest.
ZOOLOGY.
_Adders and Toads introduced into Co. Down.
Another case, in addition to those well known, of the failure to establish
an alien fauna in Ireland is given, I find, by the late Dr. James Bryce, of
Belfast, in his book, ‘‘ Geology of Arran and Clydesdale.’’ He mentions
that Mr. Cleland, of Bangor, introduced a number of Adders and Toads in
his grounds (at Rathgael House, I expect), but that the attempt was not
a success, as several of the animals were found dead a few months after-
wards. This was likely Mr. Rose Cleland, so often mentioned by Thompson
in his Natural History of Ireland, who was also a friend of Patterson,
Hyndman, Waller, and Gwyn -Jeffreys, and associated with them in the
many dredging expeditions off our coasts in the middle of last century.
? Roi Ja Weneg:?
Belfast,
Squacco Heron in Co. Mayo.
An adult male Squacco Heron (Ardea ralloides Scop.) obtained last
June near Westport, in Co. Mayo, has recently been acquired for the Col-
lection of Irish Birds in the National Museum, Dublin. This small heron
is a very rare casual visitor to Ireland in summer and autumn, and Mr
Ussher in “ The Birds of Ireland” only gives eight records of this species,
all of which are from southern counties, except one from Londonderry.
National Museum, Dublin. A. R. NICHOLS.
82 The Trish Naturalist. April,
Wren on Migration at the Tuskar Lighthouse Lantern.
At 10.30 p.m. on Friday, October 11th, 1912, Mr. Glanville, Principal
Lightkeeper, collected a Wren at the lantern of the Tuskar lighthouse,
and kindly forwarded the specimen to me. This makes the seventeenth
specimen which has been collected in connection with my work on bird-
migration at the Tuskar light-station. Of these specimens two were
obtained in the autumn of rgrt, ten in the spring of 1912, and five in the
autumn of I9gI2.
C. J. ‘PATTEN.
The University, Sheffield.
Notes on the Tree Sparrow.
On January 17th, 1913, I visited a small farm near Johnstown Bridge,
Co. Kildare, in order to observe some birds of which I had previously
been told. The birds were rather shy, but after waiting a short time, they
flew down on to some waste hay which had been scattered in the yard
behind the house, this gave me a good opportunity of observing them,
as I was concealed within a few yards of the place where they were feeding.
The following is a description of the birds taken from the notes which I
then made :—
General appearance resembling that of the House Sparrow, but colouring
brighter, and slightly smaller. Upper parts, bright chestnut brown, with
dark centres to the feathers. Under parts, dull white. Two white bars on the
wings. Chin and throat black. Head and the nape of the neck, bright
davk chestnut. Cheeks, white, with a black triangular patch’ in
the centre. Bill, blackish and strong. White ring or collar almost
surrounding the neck. Legs, brown.
There were seven birds in all, three of which I took to be hens, for the
following reasons :—
Their plumage was not quite so bright, the head not quite so vivid a
chestnut, the white markings not quite so clear, though the black markings
appeared the same in each case. Their behaviour also was less assured
and aggressive than that of the four others. These latter strutted about,
quarrelling amongst themselves, and hunting each other away from the
tit-bits, whilst the three kept apart, and were much more subdued and
quieter in every way.
On January 27th I again saw the birds, and also on February rst.
On the latter date there were only four visible. They come to the hay-
rick to feed at about 8.30 a.m. to 10 a.m., and at 2.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m., at
which time hay is: taken out to feed the cattle. When they first appeared
round the house in the early winter, they were very wild, but are much
tamer now. Having carefully examined the specimens of Passer montanus,
both mounted and unmounted in the Museum (Dublin), I am confident
that the birds I observed are the same, which gives them a new locality.
HELEN M, METCALFE,
Enfield, Co. Meath.
1913. Notes. 83
Grasshopper-Warbler on Migration at the Tuskar Light-station.
At noon on Monday, September 30th, 1912, Mr. Power, Lightkeeper,
discovered a dead Grasshopper-Warbler on the roof of the dwelling-house
of the Tuskar light-station. Post-mortem examination showed that the
bird had been dead for some days before being discovered. The prevalent
direction of the wind had been between south and east, and the force
high enough to render the weather decidedly rough, It is very likely that
the bird was carried by the strong wind against the lantern glass, and
made an “‘ incidental strike.’”” That is to say the victim did not necessarily
collide head-foremost. Indeed, the head-lesion in this case was of the
most trivial kind, and consisted of only a few minute haemorrhagic spots
at the posterior region, 7.c., where the head joins the neck. But the
back and shoulders were severely bruised. Now as the roof in question
is situated on the north to the north-west side of the rock, the bird,
when injured by contact with the glass, was, as it dropped senseless, in
all likelihood, borne with the wind on to the roof. There, held up by
boisterous weather, it probably skulked (even if it recovered the injury
sufficient to enable it to fly), and died of exhaustion in a few days.
I left the Tuskar light-station a few hours previous to the discovery
of this bird, having carefully searched the roof up to a week before my
departure. Having found no birds later than that time, one may safely
argue that this Warbler visited the lantern, or at all events came on the
roof, not before about September 24th. This makes the tenth specimen
which I have collected in connection with my work on bird-migration at
the above light-station. Of these specimens one was obtained in the
autumn of 1911, four in the spring of 1912, and five in the autumn of
1912.
C.J. PATTER:
The University, Sheffield.
The Carrion Crow at Lambay.
Mr. May’s note on the Carrion Crow at Lambay (supra, p. 45), is of
much interest. This island has been so frequently visited by naturalists
it is remarkable that it should have hitherto escaped attention; moreover,
we may assume occasional visits of the bird to the mainland, and here
likewise the many keen observers from Dublin and elsewhere have failed
to detect it.
The ‘‘Carrion Crow”’ in the Belfast Museum was a Rook some years ago,
and a nest near that town, supposed to belong to the Carrion Crow, was
really that of the Hooded Crow, There is an old saying that “‘ the mis-
fortunes of others teach us caution,” but our best thanks are due to Mr.
May for publishing Mr. Mason’s observation.
; RICHARD M, BARRINGTON,
Fassaroe, Bray.
84 The Lrish Naturalist April, 1913.
The Carrion Crow at Lambay.
With regard to Mr. G. C. May’s note on the above subject (supra, p. 43)
one would like to have some evidence of identification. How, for instance,
did Mr. Mason distinguish the bird from a young rook? Assertions of
knowledge however vigorous are not very convincing in such reports
without evidence of identification. No one can expect a record of a rare
bird having been seen to be accepted, however good an ornithologist the
observer may be, unless he gives proof of how he identified the bird.
High Holborn, London. H. F. WITHERBY.
Early Swallows at Ardmore.
My father, Mr. R. J. Ussher, wishes me tosay that on the 14th March
my husband and I observed a Swallow here, and about an hour after-
wards one of my daughters came in saying that she had seen a Swallow
in the yard of our house. I know the Sand Martin and did not mistake
it for a Swallow. The bird I saw was black above, and had the long
pointed tail of a Swallow.
Ardmore, Co. Waterford. ISABEL M. ODELL.
The supposed former Occurrence of the Wild Cat in Ireland.
I think the last note dealing with the subject of the former presence
in Ireland of the Wild Cat was one by Mr. Warren in the Irish Naturalist
of April, 1911 (vol. xx., p. 80). Mr. Warren’s criticism of the veracity
of country people in that note is rather severe. He thinks the stories
about the Wild Cat may all be put aside as being of like value asother
mythical stories of fairies, banshees, etc. I doubt whether Mr. Warren’s
opinions are shared by many other naturalists. At any rate it is of
importance to place on record stories about the former existence of the
Wild Cat in Ireland. If we should at any future time receive information
acceptable to Mr. Warren, that this creature once lived in this country,
such stories will be of undoubted value to any one engagedin writing the
history of the Wild Cat in Ireland.
The object of my present note is to point out to the readers of the
Irish Naturalist an interesting passage in a book written in the early
part of the last century by W. H. Maxwell. In this book—“‘ Wild Sports
of the-West’’—to which my attention was directed by Miss Knowles, there
are a good many valuable faunistic observations. In chapter xxxili.
the writer alludes to the capture of a Wild Cat in Mayo, stating that it
.was of a dirty gray colour, double the size of a house cat, and with
teeth and claws more than proportionately larger. Besides this large
and ferocious species, he says, the warrens upon the coast suffer much
from the common cat becoming wild, and burrowing in the rabbit-holes,
National Museum, Dublin. R. F. SCHARFF,
May, 1913. The Irish Naturalist. 85
FURTHER NOTES ON THE BURNT GROUND
ELORA?;OF KILEINEY> HILE:
BY NATHANIEL COLGAN,. M.R.I.A.
In last year’s April issue of this Journal,’ an account was
given of some observations made in the autumn of the
preceding year on what was termed the renascence flora of
certain burnt areas on Killiney Hill, Co. Dublin, areas once
densely clad with old gorse and reduced in a couple of hours
to a vegetable tabula rasa by a fire which broke out on the
night of July 7th, r911. Three months after the fire
there were found living within these burnt areas 13 species
of flowering plants, partly survivals from the old root-
stocks, partly immigrants from adjacent unburnt areas,
and partly, perhaps, the product of seeds which had retained
their vitality throughout the fire and within the areas laid
waste by it. In the present paper it is proposed to give
a record of some further observations on the flora of this
burnt ground made at intervals varying from 14 to 18
months after the fire.
My first survey of the ground for the year IgI2 was
made on the 1st September, just Ir months after the last
survey of the preceding year, and 14 months aiter the
date of the fire. On this occasion, 39 species of phanero-
gams and 2 species of cryptogams were found growing well
within the burnt areas. A second visit on the 6th October
last added 4 phanerogams, 3 others were added on the 22nd
December, a further addition of 7 phanerogams and 5
cryptogams was made on the 26th December, 2 phanero-
gams were added on the 5th January of this year, and a
week later, on the 12th January, a final addition of 2 crypto-
gams was made. _ A total renascence flora of 64 species,
(55 phanerogams and g cryptogams) was thus found to have
taken possession of the areas burnt clear of all vegetation,
eighteen months before. Although the largest number of
species listed on any one visit was 55, the number observed
on the 26th December last, it may be assumed that the
remaining species listed on previous or subsequent visits
were merely overlooked on this date, and that all 64 species
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85 The Lrish Naturalist, May,
were present simultaneously on the burnt ground in the
first week of January, 1913, or 18 months after the fire.
The nature of this renascence flora may best be under-
stood when the species are arranged in the three groups
set out below: (a) Introduced or Immigrant Species,
including all plants which had certainly or with a high
degree of probability entered the burnt areas after the fire ~
from adjacent unburnt areas; (0b) Survivals, or species
which persisted in the burnt ground throughout and after
the fire, and (c) Species of doubtful standing, since it was
not possible to determine with certainty whether they were
immigrants or survivals. In the following lists the pre-
fixed letters C, Fr. and R, denote, respectively, that a
species was found to be common, frequent, or rare.
List of Plants found growing on the Burnt Ground of
Killiney Hill in the first week of January, 1913, eighteen
months after the apparently complete destruction by five of
the original flora.
(a) Immuigrants.—45.
Sisymbrium officinale.
Cardamine hirsuta.
Stellaria media.
Cerastium triviale.
Geranium molle.
Acer Pseudo-platanus.
Trifolium minus. Plantago lanceolata.
Alchemilla arvensis. Juncus bufonius.
Fr Taraxacum officinale,
C
R
R
Fr
R
Br
Pas
Cotyledon Umbilicus. G. Anthoxanthum odoratum.
Fr
S
R
C
6
c
Fr
C
Cc
Sonchus oleraceus.
Anagallis arvensis.
Myosotis arvensis.
Digitalis purpurea.
Veronica serpyllifolia.
Epilobium obscurum. Agrostis canina.
Sambucus nigra. Aira praecox.
Galium saxatile. Dactylis glomerata.
Bellis perennis. Holcus mollis.
Tussilago Farfara. Poa annua.
Senecio vulgaris. Lolium perenne.
'S. sylvaticus. Marchantia polymorpha.
S. Jacobea. Funaria hygrometrica.
Crepis virens. Barbula fallax.
AUR ROOMM DRA DUA OR AATF
C. taraxacifolia. Fr. Polytrichum piliferum.
Cnicus lanceolatus. F.. PP. jiniperinam,
Hypocheris radicata. Fr. P. commune.
Leontodon autumnalis. Fr. Parmelia conspersa.
R. Parmelia omphalodes.
1913. CoLrcaAN.—Burnt Ground Flora of Killiney. $7
(b) Survivals.—13.
R. Corydalis claviculata. Fr. Calluna vulgaris.
C Ulex europeus. Fr. Teucrium Scorodonia
Fr, Rubus fruticosus. R. Urtica dioica.
R. Potentilla Tormentilla. Fr. Carex binervis.
Ir. Epilobium angustifolium. Fr. Pteris aquilina.
Fr, Erica cinerea. R. SBuddleia variabilis.
R. Leycesteria formosa,
(c) Of Doubtful Origin.—6.
C. Sedum anglicum, R. Rumex Acetosa.
Fr. Betula pubescens. Fr. Festuca ovina.
C. Rumex Acetosella. Fr. Nardus stricta.
However numerous in species the phanerogamic flora
was found to be, in mass it fell far short of the associated
cryptogamic flora, though the latter was singularly poor
in species. Two common mosses, Funaria hygrometrica
and Barbula fallax were dominant above all cther species
in the burnt ground flora of January last. Taken together,
these two species covered fully one-half of the total area
‘ occupied by vegetation within the burnt ground, and none
of the phanerogams approached either of them in the extent
of surface occupied. The first-named of these mosses,
la Charbonniére of the French, so called in allusion to its
marked predilection for burnt ground, was rather more
abundant than the second, although the Barbula was more
conspicuous by reason of the ruddy brown colour of its
innumerable immature fruiting stems. The only other
mosses noticed were three common species of Polytrichum,
P. piliferum, P. guntperinum, and P. commune. These were
generally distributed in scattered patches but covered no
considerable surface. [I am indebted to Mr. David McArdle
for confirmation or correction of my naming ofthese burnt
ground mosses. As for the remaining cryptogamic species,
Marchantia polymorpha was found to be frequent and
luxuriant in various stages of fructification from September
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88 The Lrish Naturalist. May,
to December last within the burnt areas of Killiney Hill,
especially on the southern side, where the largest con-
tinuous burnt area is found, fully half an acre in extent,
and occupying a steep, roughly-terraced granite slope,
facing almost due east. Bracken shoots appeared here and
there, and two lichens were noted in small quantity, and
confined to a few rocks near the upper edge of this burnt
ground. These Miss Knowles has kindly named for me.
They are the common species Parmelia omphalodes and
P. conspersa.
Amongst the 37 phanerogamic immigrants the grasses
were strongly predominant. Indeed, outside of this Order
only two or three flowering plants played any important
part in reclothing the surfaces swept bare by the fire.
Arranged roughly in the order of their dominance, that is
to say of the extent of surface occupied, the following were
the most noteworthy species :—
Holcus mollis. Poa annua.-
Anthoxanthum odoratum. Senecio sylvaticus.
Lolium perenne. S. vulgaris.
Aira praecox. Sonchus oleraceus.
The first four of these far exceeded the others in the
mass of vegetation produced.
It will be seen that this large group (a) of immigrant
or invading species is more than twice as large as the other
two groups taken together, the groups made up of survivals
and of species of doubtful provenance. This is no more
than might have been expected, nor is there anything
unexpected in the botanical constitution of this immigrant
group. It is made up chiefly of species provided with
special contrivances for seed dissemination, or with very
light or minute seeds or spores adapted to wind carriage.
There are no less than 30 of such species to 15 species not
specially adapted for dissemination. One of the most
prominent of these specially adapted species was Senecio
sylvaticus, which amongst flowering plants is no _ less
characteristic of burnt ground than is Funaria hygrometrica
amongst cryptogams, The vigour, abundance and ubiquity
1913. CoLrcan.—Burat Ground Flora of Killiney. 89
of this Senecio on the Killiney Hill burnt ground was re-
markable. Seedlings; young flowering plants, and thickets
of withered stems appeared in profusion in September
last, when a careful measurement gave to some of these
old stems a height of 4 feet ! Of the 15 species not specially
adapted for dissemination, not one was found to be common,
and rather more than half were quite rare; of the 30
specially adapted species, Io were common and only one-
third were rare.
Passing to the second group (0) of surviving species,
it may be noted that taken as a whole and as it stood at
the opening of January last it played a distinctly subordi-
nate part in providing a new vegetable carpet for the
blackened hill slopes. Shoots from the old gorse stumps
were very numerous and occasionally reached to 18 inches
in height ; here and there the Ling and the Purple Heather
were sprouting from the old roots, but as yet had hardly
attained to more than 2 inches in height ; shoots from
the Wood Sage, too, were fairly frequent and some fine
tufts of Carex binervis were seen, but the total mass of
vegetation. produced by these species was inconsiderable.
This group of survivals, however, small though it was in
mass, contained some interesting members. Taken in
their order, Corydalis claviculata comes first. <A fine plant
of this rare species, well-known to inhabit Killiney Hill,
appeared on the edge of the steep scarp of granite which
forms the boundary of the chief burnt area on the southern
side of the hill, and is marked ‘‘ Dangerous” by notice
boards placed at intervals. This plant grew up right
beside the charred stump of an aged gorse bush which had
borne the full brunt of the fire. The hard, black, polished
seeds of Corydalis are quite unfitted for wind dispersal, but
their smooth surface and lenticular form enable them to
slip readily into cracks or crevices of the soil where they
might easily escape destruction by fire. This species, in
Dublin, at all events, peculiarly affects gorse spinnies,
and I have twice observed its renascence in quantity in
such stations after the firing of the gorse, once in the Dingle,
Glenamuck, in 1900, and again on Killiney Hill in rgoz.
go The lrish Naturalist. May,
Of peculiar interest amongst the survivals was Epilobium
angustifolium, the Rose Bay, a species generally rare in
Ireland, and not hitherto certainly known to occur in
Co. Dublin. This was cbviously a survival in the burnt
ground, and was merely unveiled by the fire which had
swept away the scrub which concealed it without destroying
its deep-seated and long-established root-stocks. The
first specimen was noticed on the Ist September last, when
a clump of bright red stems a few inches high and crowned
by small rosettes of leaves was found springing from a
blackened cleft in the granite, well inside of what had been
the fire zone. The plant was puzzling to one unfamiliar
with its early stages, but all doubts as to its identity were
set at rest on the 22nd September, when three other speci-
mens were found in full flower. Further search showed
that fully a dozen old plants were scattered over the hill,
about 8 of these being within the burnt areas. Some of
the finer specimens between 3 and 4 feet in height with
numerous stems were rooted on almost inaccessible shelves
of granite on the face of the steep scarp which sweeps in a
curve round the south and south-east sides of the hill
above Vico Road, and had all the appearance.of natives.
Most of the examples of this species found growing on the
hill appeared to belong to the obscure form or variety
brachycarpum of Leighton, distinguished by its broad leaves,
obliquely pointed buds, and short, spreading pods. This
is said to be the cultivated form, but so far as I can discover
this means simply the wild form selected for, not the form
produced in, cultivation. If this be so, then there is nothing
in the form of the plant found established on Killiney Hill
to negative its claim to be regarded as native there, and
moreover, some of the plants with erect pods upwards of
3 inches long were doubtfully referable to this so-called
cultivated variety. Whether the species be really native
here or not, is perhaps impossible to determine, as the plant
is often cultivated and its seeds, in common with those of
all the Epilobiums, are specially adapted for wind disposal.
Whatever the standing of the plant may be on Killiney Hill,
it is certainly fully established there, where for many years,
1913. CoLGAN.—Aurnt Ground Flora of Killiney. QI
no doubt, it has eluded discovery, only to be brought to
light by the devastating fire of July, rgr1."
As for Ulex europacus, while shoots from old burnt
stems were numerous at the opening of the present year,
seedlings were then extremely rare in the burnt ground
although they were seen there in abundance 3 months
after the fire.
A couple of well-grown plants of Leycesterta formosa,
a relative of our native Woodbine introduced from the
Nepal Himalayas and now familiar in shrubberies, were found
on the edges of the burnt ground, and, more c’early within
the fire zone, a single plant of Buddleia variabilis appeared.
Both of these exotics are cultivated in the immediate
neighbourhood of the hill. The first species, which bears
succulent berries, was probably introduced to its hill stations
by the agency of birds, the second was undoubtedly wind-
borne, for its seeds are provided with remarkabiy extended
wings which admirably fit it for long aerial voyages. From
their apparent age, both of these species must have origi-
nated in their present stations before the date of the fire
which helped to reveal their presence; but as neither
occupies a position approaching the focus of the fire, their —
survival is of no great interest as a proof of heat-resisting
capacity.
In the list of doubtful plants two species are note-
worthy for their importance as elements in the vegetable
clothing of the burnt ground, Sedum anglicum and Rumex
Acetosella. The second of these may, perhaps, have origi-
nated from seeds which survived in the burnt areas, as
seedlings were found there some three months alter the fire.
It is more probab‘e, however, that it was introduced after
the fire, and this probability is much stronger in the case of
the Sedum, which is abundant in rocky and open places all
over the hill and has minute light seeds well fitted for
wind dispersal. Together, these two species occupied a
1The shoots from the creeping rhizome of a specimen found sprouting
in the middle of the burnt ground early in March last extended over a
space two yards in diameter.
92 The Irish Naturalist. _ May,
considerable area. Birch seedlings in different stages of
growth were frequent, some up to three inches in height,
but it was not possib'e, as it was in the case of the equally
numerous Sycamore seedlings, to decide whether any of
these had sprung from seed which had reached the burnt
eround after the fire.
Before proceeding to sum up the results of the observa-
tions just recorded and discussed, it will be convenient to
arrange here in one view, roughly in the order of their
mass or dominance and without reference to their origin,
the species which were found to play any important part
in re-clothing the burnt ground at the opening of this
year. Out of the total renascence flora of 64 species, only
the following 14 deserve mention in this connection :—
Barbula fallax. Poa annua.
Funaria hygrometrica. Ulex europaeus.
Holcus mollis. Senecio sylvaticus.
Anthoxanthum odoratum. Rumex Acetosella.
Lolium perenne. Senecio vulgaris.
Sedum anglicum. Sonchus oleraceus.
Aira praecox. Carex binervis.
On a general survey of this new flora perhaps the most
salient fact which emerges is the conflict between its higher
and lower elements, between the phanerogams and the
cryptogams. Relatively few in species though they be,
only 9 out of a total of 64, the lower plants are yet con-
spicuousiy dominant, one-half of the total vegetable clothing
of the burnt ground being contributed by the two mosses
which stand at the head of the above list. So far, these species
have kept in check the much more varied phanerogamic
flora ; they have probably killed off the seedling gorse, and,
for a time at least, have secured unmistakeable dominance.
Is this dominance of the cryptogamic element likely to be
permanent ? And if not, in what manner is the competing
phanerogamic element likely to assert its predominance ?
Which of its species will increase and which decrease or
disappear as the struggle for existence goes on ? What,
1913. Corcan.—Burnt Ground Flora of Killiney. 93
in short, will be the final condition of floral equilibrium
arrived at ?
It may, I think, be asserted with confidence that the now
dominant cryptogams will before long give way to the higher
p:ants, and for this amongst other reasons that their present
dominance is largely the result of abnormal climatic con-
ditions. The summer of IgI2 was, in fact, a remarkably
wet one in Co. Dublin, and generally throughout Ireland,
and should the summer of this year prove to be one of
average dryness, then the perennial phanerogams may be
expected to gain rapidly on the annual cryptogams. The
open spaces will more and more be invaded by the already
well-es’ablished grasses, by the Foxglove and by Sedum
anglicum and Galium saxatile ; ater on the Bracken and
the moorland grasses and sedges such as Agrostis cantina,
Festuca ovina and Carex binervis will enlarge their domain,
the gorse shoots and the shoots of the Ling and Purple
Heather will rapidly increase in size and in number, while
the annual phanerogams will be slowly crowded out ; and
so the faczes of the flora will gradually change and a reversion
to the vegetable status quo ante will set in. If not this year,
then the next, sooner or later the first steps in this reversion
wil become manifest. But the reversion, when it is finally
brought about will not be a complete one. Here and there
a young wind-borne Sycamore or Birch or a young Elder
sprung from a bird-sown seed will maintain its ground, so
that an element of difference will mark off the new vegetable
equilibrium from the old.
How much of truth there may be in this forecast,
the record here given of the state of the Killiney Hill
renascene flora at the opening of the year 1913, will enable
the future observer to decide.
Sandycove, Co. Dublin.
04 The lrish Naturalist. May,
WILD CATS IN IRELAND.
BY ROBERT WARREN,
In the Ivish Naturalist for April (supra, p. 84), Dr.
Scharff refers to some notes of mine in the Jvish Naturalist
for 191 (vol. xx., p. 50), on the supposed existence
of the Wild Cat (Felis catus) in Ireland. He says—‘“ Mr.
Warren’s criticism of the veracity of country people is
rather severe.” I still adhere to the opinion that the
stories of Wild Cats by the country people should not be
credited, as referring to the true Wild Cat, but to the
domestic cat run wild, and wild-bred for many years among
the woods and rabbit warrens throughout the country.
Living this wild life, and feeding on their natural food of
birds and small quadrupeds—after the lapse of many
generations of this wild life, they attain to a size and
strength far beyond that of the tame house cat. | When
I first came to reside at Moyview, Co. Sligo, in 1851, there
were some rabbits about the place, but no care was taken
of them, and none were trapped, so there was no check
put to the increase of the wild—bred cats living in the
woods and plantations. I frequently came across them,
but, on being disturbed, they always took refuge in rabbit
holes.
Having some friends pheasant-shooting, one day as
we were beating some thick bushes and briars, an immense
grey cat bolted, and was knocked over by one of the guns,
but so tenacious of life was the brute, that it took a second
barrel to finish him. He was an old male, of the true
Wild Cat colour, having a thick coat of coarse fur. All
present were surprised at his size, which was at least a
third larger than that of a house cat, and when [I lifted
the carcase from the ground, its weight astonished me.
Afterwards I regretted that I did not take his measurements
and weight to show to what a size and weight these wild-
bred cats attain.
1913. WARREN.— Wild Cats in Ireland. 95
The following year I began trapping the rabbits, and
from time to time the trappers caught cats of various
colours, as large as the individual shot. However, when
we cleared out the old stock, none of their successors were
permitted to live long enough to attain the size and weight
of their veteran ancestors. No doubt, a great deal has
been talked about the Wild Cat being a native, but up
to the present, no specimen of the felis catus has been
forthcoming, Irish-killed, and with authentic information
of date and locality where captured.
Some years ago, when my valued friend the late A.
G. More was appointed Curator of the Dublin Museum,
visiting him one day, he asked me if I would like to see a
specimen of a Donegal Wild Cat. I replied—‘‘ That is
a sight I never expect to see.” ** Well,” he said, ““ come
with me to the case and I will show you a specimen of a
cat exhibited before the Zoological Society by a _ well-
known London naturalist, and afterwards presented by
him to the Dublin Museum as a true Wild Cat captured
in Donegal.” The specimen was that of a large male
wild-bred cat, and the only resemblance to Felis catus
was his grey colour and size. ‘“‘ Why is the specimen
kept in the case ?”’ Lasked More. ‘I am going to regulate
all the cases,” he replied, “but have not had time yet
to attend to this case, and turn out this impostor to the
scrap heap.”
Here is an instance of a well-known London naturalist
being mistaken, and probably led astray by the idle tales
of country people.
Dr. Scharff refers to that interesting book by Maxwell—
Wild Sports of the West, as some evidence of the Wild
Cat being a native (Maxwell’s book was published as far
back as 1832) and quotes several passages from it respecting
Wild Cats, which I have been aware of for over fifty years,
but I have never credited them as evidence of the Wild Cat
being a native, always considering that the cats spoken of
were the wild-bred house cats run wild, and living and
breeding in rabbit warrens; also, the cat mentioned as
mauling the rabbit-catcher so badly could well be an old
96 The Trish Naturalist. May,
wild-bred male of the grey colour, which would be quite
powerful and savage enough to do the injury to the rabbit-
catcher.
This statement by Maxwell was written eighty years
ago, and yet since then no true Wild Cat has turned up.
Thompson, who mentions the names of his correspondents
who wrote to him about Wild Cats, and who had every
opportunity of investigating the statements, never got
satisfactory evidence, and in the fourth volume of his
Natural History of Ireland he cautiously says—‘‘ Cannot be
given with certainty as a native animal.” We can now
come to ten or twenty years later, when the late Robert
Ball was custodian of the Trinity College Museum ; he never
saw a true Wild Cat, neither did Dr. Carte, Director of
the Dublin Museum, nor his successor, A. G. More; nor,
if I am correct, has my friend Dr. Scharff, the present
obliging Keeper of the National Museum. Looking
over the Proceedings of the Dublin. Natural AHtstory
Society for 1862, | came on some interesting notes by the
late F. G. Foot, on the mammalia of the west coast of
Clare. Speaking of the Marten he says—* It is known
by the country people as Cot Krine—the cat of the woods.”
Of the Wild Cat (Felis catus) ““I have not been able to
ascertain for certain of the existence of the Wild Cat in
Clare. I have often been told of its existence in different
places, but on close enquiry, they turned out to be Martens,
or tame cats run wild.”
Ardnaree, Monkstown, Co. Cork.
IRISH SOCIETIES.
ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Recent gifts include a Macacque Monkey from Capt. A. W. A. Irwin,
two Guinea-Pigs from Miss D. Summers, an African Grey Parrot from
Mr. T. Fox, a Roseate Cockatoo from Mr. Hills, and a Tortoise from Mrs.
Griffin. _Two Wallabys have been born in the Gardens. A Brewn
Capuchin Monkey, three Tree Porcupines, a pair of Squirrels, two Indian
Rollers, Nine pairs of American Homer Pigeons, a pair of Brent Geese,
and three pairs of Shoveller Ducks have been acquired by purchase.
1913. trish Societies. 97
DUBLIN MICROSCOPICAL CLUB.
Marcu 12.—The Club met at Leinster House, J. H. WooDwortH
(President) in the chair.
Dr. G. H. PETHYBRIDGE exhibited a new species of fungus (Phy-
tophthora ervythroseptica) which he had discovered to be the cause of a
specific form of rot in the potato tuber which is quite distinct from that
caused by P. infestans, or by any of the hitherto described pathogenic
bacteria or fungi, and for which the name “ Pink Rot ”’ has been suggested.
The interest of the fungus lies not alone in its being new to science, but
more in the fact that its mode of sexual reproduction is quite different
from that described for any fungus up to the present. The female organ
(or oogonium) at its inception enters the male organ (or antheridium)
at or near the base of the latter, grows up through it, bursts out at the
summit, and forms there the oogonium proper, in which a typical thick-
walled resting spore is developed. Whether actual fertilisation occurs
or not has not yet been determined, but if it does it must take place before
the formation of the oogonium proper, or of the oosphere within it. In
conjunction with Mr. P. A. Murphy he had also found that the recently
discovered resting spores of P. infestans as well as those of P. Phaseoli
are developed in the same way, as are also probably those of Coleman’s
P. omnivora var. Arecae. Those of P. Cactorum, P. Syrnigae, etc., are,
however, formed in the usual way by the penetration of the oogonium
laterally by an extension from the antheridium. Hence the name
Phytophthora is to be retained for those species only which agree with
P. evythroseptica in their mode of sexual reproduction, while that of
Nozemia is suggested for the other species formerly included under the
genus Phytophthora. Full details will be found in the Scient. Proc.
Royal Dublin Society, vol. xXiil., nos. 35 and 36, 1913.
R. SOUTHERN showed a specimen of Amphioxus lanceolatus (Pallas),
dredged in 20 fathoms in Dingle Bay, on a bottom of fine gravel and
sand. This species has previously been found in Bantry Bay, and is
widely distributed on the shores of the North Athlantic, Mediterranean,
and Ceylon. The distinctive characteristics of the species were demon-
strated, and its position as a primitive vertebrate discussed.
Sir F. W. Moore showed the labellum of Masdevallia triangularis, a
little Orchid from Colombia. The lip in this species is sharply bent
back on a very delicate and mobile joint, so that the apex stands in front
of the column, and on the apex is borne a group of dark hairs, apparently
black in colour, but when examined under the microscope they are seen
to be dark brownish red. A slight pressure causes the lip to bend at the
hinges, and on being released it quickly springs back again. The peculiar
structure of this hinged joint was clearly demonstrated.
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The Lrish Naturalist. May,
BELFAST NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB.
MARCH 12. ZOOLOGICAL SECTION.—R. H. WHITEHOUSE, M.Sc., lec-
tured on ‘‘ The Structure and Life-history of Sea-Squirts.”’
DUBLIN NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB.
JANUARY I4TH. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.—W. F. GuNN (Presi-
dent) in the chair. The Hon. Secretary (R. SOUTHERN) read the Com-
mittee’s Report for 1912. This showed the membership of the Club
to be 96. Considerable discussion followed, and various members
expressed dissatisfaction with the programme of excursions held during
the last year. The Report was then carried on the motion of the Presi-
dent, seconded by H. W. D. Dunlop. The Hon. Treasurer (H. Gore
CUTHBERT) then presented his annual report and balance sheet, which
showed that the financial position of the Club was somewhat less favour-
able than that of the preceding year. On the motion of the President,
seconded by H. W. D. Dunlop, the Hon. Treasurer’s Report was adopted.
A vote of thanks to the Council of the Royal Irish Academy for allowing
the Club the privilege of meeting in their rooms, and to the Dublin Press
for reporting the proceedings of the Club, was moved by N. Colgan,
seconded by C. B. Moffat, and carried unanimously. The list of nomi-
nations of Officers and Committee was then read out, and as the requisite
number, only, had been nominated, the President declared them all
elected, with the exception of T. Hallissy and R. Southern, who had
withdrawn their names. The following is a list of the Officers elected
for the year 1913 :—President, W. F. Gunn; Vice-President, N. Colgan ;
Hon. Treasurer, H. Gore Cuthbert ; Hon. Secretaries, C.-M. Selbie and
G. R. Humphreys. N. E. Stephens and Miss I. G. Webb were elected
to fill vacancies on the Committee.
Miss I. Denning and Miss J. Gilmore were elected members of the Club.
The following exhibits were on view :—R. SOUTHERN—a chart showing
the bathymetrical range of the Irish Gephyrea. W. F. GUNN—a micro-
scopic preparation of the Radiolarian Polycistina. W. B. Wright—a
number of photographs illustrating the Glacial geology of Scotland.
FEBRUARY 1Ith.—N. CoLGAN (Vice-President) in the chair. C. B.
MoFFAT read a paper on ‘“‘ Bees and Flowers.’’ The paper which was
largely based on observations made by Mr. Moffat himself proved most
interesting, and it has been published in the April number of the Irish
Naturalist (supra, p. 65). The following members took part in the dis-
cussion: which took place :—Messrs. Praeger, Colgan, Halbert, Wright,
and Cuthbert. W. B. Wright exhibited some British sapphires, and
copper ore from County Kerry.
Miss N. Hinkson was elected a member of the Club.
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1913. Notes. 99
NOTES,
Phenological Observations.
The Royal Meteorological Society has for a number of years past
collected observations on the dates of flowering of plants, and the first
appearance of birds, insects, &c., in order to determine the effects of
weather upon natural periodical phenomena. There are many parts of
the country unfortunately, from which observations have not been
received. The Council are desirous if possible of increasing the number
of observers so as to cover a larger area. We are desired to endeavour
to persuade’ some of our readers to become observers on behalf of this
Society. We can send to them forms for entering up the observations,
which have been received from the Society.
BOTANY.
Viola Reichenbachiana in Down and Fermanagh.
On 25th March I had the pleasure of finding several good clumps of
the above Violet in full flower growing on the Lagan Bank at Edenderry,
Co. Down. There are several known stations for the plant in Co. Antrim,
but so far as I can find it has not been recorded before from Co. Down.
This violet is abundant on hedge banks in the district west of Lisbellaw,
Co. Fermanagh. The name was kindly verified by Miss Knowles.
N. CARROTHERS.
Belfast.
ZOOLOGY.
Carrion Crow on Lambay.
I beg to say that the black Carrion Crow which I reported to Mr. May
was here from about the middle of December, 1912, to first week in March,
1913 (nearly three months). I have never seen one of those crows in
Ireland until this bird appeared here. My son and myself saw this bird
daily, and I was frequently near enough to have shot it. My son lived
as a keeper in Yorkshire, and shot two or three of those birds. © There
are a good many common crows or Rooks on the island, but this bird
always kept to itself, and its ‘“‘caw”’ is quite different. I have seen
the letters in the Ivish Naturalist, and I beg to say that both my son and
myself are quite satisfied that this bird was the black Carrion Crow. I
am very sorry that some naturalist was not here to identify this bird.
I have been on the island nearly eight years. ~The common Grey Crow
has been seen flying over on a few occasions, and only yesterday morning
my son saw two of them settle near the Seal Hole.
FRANCIS MAsoNn
Lambay, Co. Dublin:
TOO The lrish Naturalist, May, 1913.
REVIEW.
ANTRIM VOLCANIC ROCKS.
The Interbasaltic Rocks (Iron Ores and Bauxites) of North-east Ireland.
By -G.A. fj. Core, FG327-3. Bo winkixson > AtesR, BT Bene.
M.R.VI AS: JR. Kirrer, A.RC.Sc. Ey sy. Seymours Al, Pas.
C. E. Moss, D.Sc., and W. D. Haicu, A.R.C.Sc.1. (Memoirs of
the Geological Survey of Ireland.) . Pp. vi. x 130. Maps,
6 plates, and 23 text figures. Dublin: H.M. Stationery Office, 1912.
Price 3s,
At last this long-expected memoir is before us, and in our opinion the
officers of the Survey are to be congratulated most highly on their work.
In a preface by the Director the principles on which the revision
was undertaken are fully explained, and in the first chapter the same
writer gives an interesting historical account of the investigation of the
iron-bearing zone between the lower and upper basalts of the district,
comparing the deposits with the laterites of tropical countries, and con-
cluding that ‘‘ The laterites and lithomarges of North-eastern Ireland
cannot be connected either with volcanic explosions
or a ae in lakes, but must be regarded as typical examples
of soils and sub-soils formed under conditions now prevalent, in regions
of seasonal rains, nearer the equator.”
Mr. S. B. Wilkinson describes the deposits of the northern district and
concludes that there is no evidence of their pyroclastic origin, but that
they are the result of deep decomposition in place of the basalt. The
East Antrim district is described by Mr. A. M‘Henry. In the Glenarm
valley grey bauxite takes the place of red iron-ore, and from included
quartz crystals and the occurrence of a rhyolitic gravel it is concluded
that this deposit was formed by the weathering of the Antrim rhyolites,
which are therefore thought to be of interbasaltic age.
The Mid-Antrim area was resurveyed by Mr. J. R. Kilroe. It includes
amongst others the Parkmore mines, which are still worked on an eight-
to twelve-inch seam of ore yielding some 40 per cent. of iron. The
southern district was entrusted to Professor H. J. Seymour, and con-
siderable interest centres in the famous fossil plant locality at Bally-
palady. The Lough Neagh clays and lignites are discussed in this con-
nection, and it is concluded that they were derived by denudation and
redeposition from the interbasaltic beds. Dr. C. E. Moss gives in chapter
vi. an account of the fossil plants from Ballypalady and other localities.
Numerous analyses of the interbasaltic ore deposits follow, and include
bole ochre and lithomarge, bauxite, and iron-ores.
Several excellent colour-printed maps accompany the memoir,
which is also illustrated by numerous diagrams and photographs. The
general make-up of the volume leaves much to be desired, the binding
is clumsy, and the workmanship bad. Several of the photographic
plates (notably pl. vi.) are cut down so as to leave practically no margin,
while the ghastly attempt at colour-printing which forms the frontispiece
would be a disgrace to a halfpenny comic paper.
A aR, Ape
June, 1913. The Irish Naturalist. IOI
THE COMING OF AGE OF THE
~ LRISH NATURAL EAE
On April 23rd the ‘“‘ coming of age ”’ of the Iv7sh Naturalist—
whose first number appeared in April, 1892—-was most
agreeably commemorated by a dinner given to the Editors
and to a large number of the supporters of the Journal
by the joint hospitality of Mr. R. M. Barrington, Mr. N.
Palos Dr, hk. Fb. Scharft,,and Mr. J,..Ussher,,,bhe
idea that an event so worthy of note as the completion
of the Ivish Naturalist’s twenty-first year should not be
allowed to pass by without some form of celebration had
been first put forward by Mr. Colgan, and was warmly
taken up by the three other hosts, with the result that
a gathering representative of every branch of natural
history was brought together to honour the occasion.
The dinner, which took place at Mills’s Rooms, 8, Merrion
Row, Dublin, was presided over by Mr. Barrington, the
three other hosts, and the three editors, as principal guests,
occupying seats near the chair.
There were also present Sir Charles Ball, Canon Lett,
Mr. John Adams, Professor Bayley Butler, Major G. E. H.
Barrett-Hamilton, Professor Grenville Cole, Professor T.
Johnson, Mr. G. P. Farran, Dr. A. H. Foord, and Messrs.
J. N: Halbert, T. Hallissy, |..de,W., Hinch,, George ic.
Humphreys, C. B. Moffat,,C. M.” Selbie, Gk. . Southern,
Alexander Williams, W. J. Williams, and W. B. Wright.
Letters regretting inability to accept were read from Sir
F. Moore, the Hon. R. E. Dillon, Rev. H. Friend, Professor
E. J. McWeeney, Mr. D. R. Pack-Beresford, Mr. W. F. de
Vismes Kane, Professor Haddon, Mr. H. K. G. Cuthbert,
and others.
The table decorations included a fine display. of flowering
Mediterranean Heath, fresh from the Curraun peninsula,
and other characteristic plants of the Western-Irish
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102 The Irish Naturalist. June,
‘“* Lusitanian ” flora. On the menu cards, painted for the
occasion by Mr. Alexander Williams, were charming pictures
of Irish birds and plants—the design on the cover of this
Journal being artistically reproduced—- minus the Kerry
Slug—on one card.
At the conclusion of the dinner, speeches were delivered
by the hosts and others congratulating the editors on the
zeal and persevering courage with which they had directed
the Journal for so long a time, and on the high standard
of merit which it was acknowledged to have maintained
under their guidance. Allusions were made to the diffi-
culties which had attended former efforts to promote the
advancement of natural history in Ireland, when “ splitters ”
and “‘ lumpers ” were apparently afraid to meet together lest
breaches of the peace should occur! The editors, in their
turn, expressed willingness to continue the efforts of which
such appreciation had been shown—acknowledging at the
same time the importance of the help rendered by the pub-
lishers, and of late years by the guarantors’ committee in
freeing them from financial responsibility.
An interesting discussion then took place on the question
whether fresh means could be suggested for improving the
circulation of the Ivish Naturalist. Amongst those who
took part in this discussion were the Chairman, Sir Charles
Ball, Canon Lett, Major Barrett-Hamilton, Professor
Johnson, Dr. Scharff, Professor Bayley Butler, Mr. Adams,
and the three editors. Various suggestions on minor
points were approved, but all idea of any fundamental change
in the direction of “ popularising ” or lowering the tone of
the Journal was strongly deprecated.
There is reason to believe that the dinner and discussion
may not be without fruit in insuring further encouragement
to the Ivtsh Naturalist in its useful career, to which all true
nature-lovers must wish abundant success.
C. B. MoFFart.
1913. PRAEGER.—A daditions to ‘Trish Topographical Botany.” 103
ADDITIONS... TO,“ IRISH,; TOPOGRAPHICAL
BOTANY” IN 1908—1912.
BY R. LLOYD PRAEGER.
IT is five years since I brought up to date the Irish county
records.t. In order to answer some queries as to recent
extensions of range, I have now abstracted the published
and unpublished notes of the intervening quinquennial
period (up till the end of 1912), and submit them herewith.
The great activity in field-work which preceded the publica-
tion of ‘* Irish Topographical Botany,” and which continued
till the publication of the 1g01-1905 supplement,” has died
away, and some of our most energetic workers are engaged
on other branches of science ; the distribution of Flowering
Piants in Ireland is now tolerably thoroughly known—
more thoroughly, for instance, as Mr. Colgan has shown,?
than in Great Britain. The period since 1gor (when “‘ Irish
Top. Bot.” was published) has been fruitful, not only in
the adding of many rare plants to the floras of the different
county-divisions, but in the filling-up of blanks in the
distribution of the commoner species. In 1901 I published4
a list of ‘‘ Plant Records Wanted,” showing, to the extent
of over one thousand items, the more conspicuous blanks
existing in the county lists. It is satisfactory to record
that the work of the intervening twe-ve years has wiped out
more than one-third of these—34 per cent., to be exact.
During the same period, a total of about 1,140 new county
records has been added to the distribution of Irish Flowering
Plants as given in ‘“‘ Irish Topographical Botany.”
1Additions to ‘Irish Topographical Botany” in 1906-7. Irish
Nat., xvii., 28-37. 1908.
“Irish Topographical Botany: Supplement 1901-1905. Proc.
R.I. Acad., xxvi, B., 13-45. 1906.
%Notes on ‘‘ Irish Topographical Botany,’’ with some remarks on floral
diversity. Ivish Nat., x., 233-240. 1901.
4Tvish Nat., x., 176-189.
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104 The Lrish Naturalsst. June,
To turn now to the period with which we are more di-
rectly concerned—the years 1908-1912, inclusive—a satis-
factory advance has to be recorded. To the Irish list, 13
species (mostly critical plants) have to be added. These,
with the numbers of the county-divisions from which they
are recorded, are as follows :—
Rubus sulcatus Vest. 1. Hieracium cymbifolium Pur-
Colemanni Blox., 2, 5. chas, 9, 28.
adenanthus B. & G.., I, 2. tAtropa Belladonna L., 9, 35.
Griffithianus Rogers, 5. Utricularia Bremii Heer, 1.
ochrodermis A. Ley, 15. ochroleuca Hartm., 16, 27.
Hieracium britannicum F. /. Rhinanthus major L., 8.
Hanb., 9, 28. * Allium thiquetrin 1.; i 4:
ciliatum Almq., 28. toleraceum L., 39.
Of these Atropa Belladonna and Allium triquetrum are
aliens now admitted as naturalized in more than one locality,
according to J.7.B. standard, and A. olevaceum is a
probably introduced species formerly recorded as A. vineale.
The new county-records include some notable extensions
of range, such as Pyrola minor and Orobanche rubra from
Kerry ; Cochlearia groenlandica and Bartsia viscosa from
West Galway ; Ceratophyllum demersum from N.E. Galway ;
Spivanthes Romanzofiana from Down; Habenaria intacta
from W. Mayo; Sisyrinchium angustifolium from West
Donegal and Antrim ; Leucojum aestivum from Queen’s
Co., &c.; Carex paradoxa, Glyceria festucaeformis, G. Fou-
caudt, and Isoetes echinospora from Clare.
It is satisfactory to record the re-discovery in certain
divisions of plants long missing or very rare, such as Vicia
Orobus, Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, and Pyrola secunda in
Antrim, Cardamine amara in Derry, Matthiola incana in
Clare.
One or two rare plants which have been reported cannot
be included in the present list, being either not naturalized
or else planted where they occur: for instance, Aspleniwm
septentrionale 11 Down (garden wall at Rowallane, J. N.,
XXl1., 150, 154), and Typha angustifolia in King’s Co. (Birr
Castle, where it proves to have been planted (R. A. Phillips)).
1913. PRAEGER.—A dditions to Irish Topographical Botany.” 105
A few records are held over pending further information,
as I, or others on whom I rely, are not satisfied as to their
correctness. These are—
Caltha radicans, 15, 28 (J. N., xviii., 209).
Cardamine amara, 1 (Journ. Bot., xlvii., 227, 1909).
Inula crithmoides, 17) (Trans. Bot. Soc: Edinb., xxili., 245-6,
Hottonia palustris, 4 1906).
Scrophularia umbrosa, 8 (Journ. Bot., xlvii., 385, 1909).
Juncus trifidus, 1 (Journ. Bot., xlvii., 227, 1909).
A few plants newly recorded from Ireland are omitted
since it is at present doubtful if they can claim specific or
subspecific rank in the sense in which these terms are
used in ‘‘ Irish Topographical Botany.” These include—
Viola epipsila. Euphrasia fennica.
Taraxacum segregates. Helleborine atroviridis.
Rhinanthus segregates.
Finally, there are a few records to be withdrawn, which
have appeared in “‘ Irish Topographical Botany,” or in its
supplements, or subsequently. These are—
Ranunculus Lingua, 34 (J. N., xvii., 36). Was R. Flammula (I. N., xvii.,
100).
Hieracium Sehmidtii, 28, 29 (J. T. B.). These records of Barrington and
Vowell’s transferred to H. anglicum (I. N., xviii., 83).
H. caesium var. Smithii, 28 (J. 7.8.). Barrington and Vowell’s record
transferred to H. ciliatum var. repandum (I. N., xviii., 83).
Allium vineale, 39 (J. T. B.) Adams has shown (J. N., xviii., 11), that the
Six-mile River plant is A. olevaceum. Probably the Shane’s Castle
record refers to the same species.
Elisma natans. 2, 9. Definitely recorded by Druce (J. N., xix., 237), but
Professor Gliick, whose authority is quoted, tells me that the evidence
for the inclusion of this plant in the Irish flora is still insufficient.
Tolypella glomerata, 15. Recorded by Druce (J. N., xviii., 213), but
subsequently withdrawn by him (zbid., 250.)
I now proceed to list the new county-records, first under
the county-divisions, adding references to published records
(where the name of a journal does not precede the volume-
number, the J7ish Naturalist is understood) ; and secondly,
according to systematic order, with the division-numbers
appended.
to6 The lrish Naturalist. June,
NEw RECORDS UNDER County DIVISIONS.
I. KERRY SOUTH.— Pyrola minor, Xvil., 53.
Trifolium arvense, Xvii., 51. Chlora perfoliata, xvii., 53.
Rubus sulcatus, xvii., 51. *Orobanche minor, XX1., 163.
incurvatus, Xvil., 51. rubra, xk. 103.
adenanthus, xvil., 52. Utricularia Bremit, xix:, 237.
Koehleri (dasyphyllus), xvii, 52. *Allium triquetrum, xix., 156.
saxatilis, xvil., 52. Potamogeton crispus, XVil., 54.
*Cichorium Intybus, xvii., 52. +Poa nemoralis, xvii., 54.
2. KERRY NORTH.— Rubus rudis, Xvii., 52.
7Crambe maritima, xvii., 51. *Sedum album, xviil., 52.
Rubus Colemanni, xvii., 52. Valeriana Mikanii, xvii., 50.1
adenanthus, xvii., 52. tArtemisia Absinthium, xvii., 52.
4. Cork, Mip.— *Allium triquetrum, xix., 155.
. CorK East.—
On
Rubus erythrinus, xvii., 55. Rubus hirtifolius, xvil., 55.
Colemanni, xvii., 55. Griffithianus, xvil., 55.
8. LIMERICK.— Rhinanthus major, XiX., 87.
Rubus Lindleianus. Typha angustifolia, xviii., 39.
g. CLARE.—
Rosa involuta, xvili., 66. Lamium hybridum, xviil., 211.
Galium uliginosum, xviii., 67. Potamogeton decipiens, xviii., 67.
*Crepis biennis, Xviii., 67. Eriophorum latifolium, xvili., 212.
Hieracium britannicum, xviii., 250. Carex paradoxa, xvili., 68.
cymbifolium, xvili., 250. divulsa, xvill., 68.
tAtropa Belladonna, xviii., 67. Glyceria festucaeformis, xviil., 68.
*Lycium barbarum, xviil., 67. Foucaudi, xviii., 68.
{Mentha piperita, xvill., 211. Agropyron pungens, xviil., 68.
Thymus Chamaedrys. Isoetes echinospora, Xviil., 39.
10. TIPPERARY NORTH.—
Rubus _ Lindleianus. *Inula Helenium, xviili., 39.
rosaceus (hystrix), xvii., 56. +Leucojum aestivum, xxi., 244.
11. KILKENNY.— Juncus acutus, XXi., 64.
12. WEXFORD.— tCampanula Trachelium.
13. CARLOW.— ;Linaria repens.
14. QUEEN’s Co.— Leucojum aestivum, Proc. R.J.A.,
Vii.) Ea 395
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1Recorded in J. T. B. Withdrawn in 1904 (J. N., xili., 78.) Since
restored to the flora (I. N., xvii., 50.)
1913. PRAEGER.— Additions to “ Irish Topographical Botany.” 107
I5. GALWAY S.E. —
Ranunculus peltatus, xviii., 209. Rubus scaber, xvii., 56.
Rubus villicaulis (Selmeri), ochrodermis, xvii. 56.
10.
179.
reo IInG?s Co: tLeucojum aestivum, xxi., 244.
20. WICKLOW.—
Lamium hybridum. Eriophorum latifolium, xviii., 228
21. .DUBLIN.— Hieracium Sommerfeltii, xviii., 250
22. MEATH.— Rubia peregrina, xxi., 204.
23. WESTMEATH.— Callitriche autumnalis, xxi., 26.
25. RoscomMMon.— Hymenophyllum tunbridgense.
Callitriche autumnalis, xxi., 26. unilaterale.
26. Mayo EAstT.—
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SVGyy 55
macrophyllus.
GALWAY W.—
Fumaria confusa, xxi., 235.
Cochlearia groenlandica, xx., 108.
Trifolium medium, xx., 168.
Rubus thyrsoideus, xx., 172.
GALWAY Nee -—
Ceratophyllum demersum, xxi.,
Ranunculus scoticus, xvili., 36.
*Hesperis matronalis, xvili., 209.
. Mavo WEsT.—
Elatine hexandra, x*xi., 2
Rhamnus Frangula, xvili., 35.
Filago minima, xvili., 36.
Arctium nemorosum, xxi., 238.
Utricularia ochroleuca, xxi., 27.
Thymus Chamaedrys.
Potamogeton Zizii, xviii., 212
Rubus dunensis, xx., 168.
*Carum Carul, xvili., 210.
Bartsia viscosa, xx., 169.
Utricularia ochroleuca, xix., 237.
Thymus Chamaedrys, xx., 170.
Lycopodium clavatum.
*Arenaria tenuifolia, xvili., 210.
Hieracium anglicum, xviil., 33.
Thymus Chamaedrys, Clare
Io Survey, =. 26:
Ulmus montana, xxi., 27.
Habenaria intacta, xviii., 155.
Carex strigosa, xviii., 36.
Be) Srtco.— Hieracium cymbifolium, xviii.,
*Hesperis matronalis, xviil., 209. 250.
Hieracium britannicum, xviii., ciliatum, xvlii., 83.
250. *Orobanche minor, xxi., 179.
29. LEITRIM.— Polygonum viviparum, Cyb.
ih, Fea. I,
30. CAVAN.—
Rubus pulcherrimus, xxi., 237.
Lettii, xxi., 237.
*Sambucus Ebulus, xx., 163.
*Inula Helenium, xx., 163.
*Mimulus guttatus.
Thymus Chamaedrys.
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a6. LOUTH.—< Hieracium hypochaeroides,
Xvill., 150.
33. FERMANAGH.— *Leucojum aestivum, Flora W.
Iveland.
34. DoNnEGAL EAst.— *Matricaria discoidea.
35. DONEGAL WEST.—
Potentilla procumbens, xix , 189. Sisyrinchium angustifolium,
Gentiana Amarella, xix., 188. MV.) 222.
tAtropa Belladonna, 7. Juncus obtusifloras, xix., 189.
Donegal. Chara polyacantha, xix., 188.
36. TYRONE.—
Arctium nemorosum, Xxi., 238. Stachys Betonica.
37. ARMAGH.—
+Geranium columbinum. *Cichorium Intybus, xviil., 242.
Vicia sylvatica, Proc. B.N.F.C., *Mimulus guttatus, xvili., 242.
IQIO-II, 348.
36: DOWN. — Orobanche rubra, xxi., 134.
tGeranium pusillum, Pyvoc. Thymus Chamaedrys.
B.N.F.C., 1908-9, 204. Spiranthes Romanzoffiana, xx.,
Lathyrus palustris, xxi., 20. TO2,
Hieracium euprepes, xviii., 82. Potamogeton decipiens, xxi.,
{Cuscuta Epithymum, xxi., 134 134.
39. ANTRIM.—
Fumaria densiflora, xxi., 235. tSisyrinchium angustifolium,
Draba imcana,: 59x., 237: KVes me 7,
Dipsacus sylvestris, Proc. tAllium oleraceum, xviii., III.
BINGE .C%,..1909-8,. 11. *Elymus arenarius, Xxi., 179.
40. LONDONDERRY.—
{Draba muralis, xix., 135. Epipactis palustris, xviii., 53.
NEW RECORDS ARRANGED SYSTEMATICALLY.
Ranunculus peltatus, 15.
scoticus, 26.
Fumaria densiflora, 39.
confusa, 16.
{tDraba muralis, 4o.
incana, 39.
Cochlearia groenlandica, 16.
*Hesperis matronalis, 26, 28.
Crambe maritima, 2.
*Arenaria tenuifolia, 26.
Elatine hexandra, 27.
fGeranium pusillum, 38.
columbinum, 737.
Rhamnus Frangula, 27.
Trifolium medium, 16.
arvense, I.
1913. PRAEGER.—A daitions to “ [rish Topographical Botany.” 109
Vicia sylvatica, 37.
Lathyrus palustris, 38.
Rubus sulcatus, 1.
incurvatus, I.
Lindleianus, 8, 10.
erythrinus, 5.
pulcherrimus, 30.
villicaulis, 15 (Selmeri).
thyrsoideus, 16.
macrophyllus, 15.
Colemanni, 2, 5.
hirtifolius, 5.
Lettii, 30.
adenanthus, I, 2.
rudis, 2.
Griffithianus, 5.
dunensis, 16.
scaber, 15.
rosaceus, 10 (hystrix).
Koehleri, 1 (dasyphyllus).
ochrodermis, 15.
saxatilis, 1.
Potentilla procumbens, 35.
Rosa involuta, 9.
*Sedum album, 2.
Callitriche autumnalis, 23, 25.
*Carum Carui, 16.
*Sambucus Ebulus, 30.
Rubia peregrina, 22.
+Galium uliginosum, 9.
Valeriana Mikanii, 2.
Filago minima, 27.
*Inula Helenium, 10, 30.
*Matricaria discoidea, 34.
tArtemisia Absinthium, 2.
Arctium nemorosum, 27, 36.
*Cichorium Intybus, I, 37.
*Crepis biennis, 9.
Hieracium anglicum, 26.
Sommerfeltii, 21.
hypochaeroides, 31.
britannicum, 9, 28.
ciliatum, 28.
‘1 Recorded from several other divisions (see Cyb. Hib., /.c.), but seems
Hieracium cymbifolium, 9, 28.
euprepes, 38.
Campanula Trachelium, $12.
Pyrola minor, tI.
Chlora perfoliata, 1.
Gentiana Amarella, 35.
tCuscuta Epithymum, 38.
*Atropa Belladonna, 9. 35.!
*Lycium barbarum, 9.
Linaria repens, 13.
Mimuius guttatus, 30. 37.
Rhinanthus major, 8.
Bartsia viscosa,16.
Orobanche minor, 1, 28.
rubra, I, 38.
Utricularia ochroleuca, 16, 27.
Bremii, 1.
{Mentha piperita, 9.
Thymus Chamaedrys, 9, 15, 16, 27,
40,30 :
Stachys Betonica, 36.
Lamium hybridum, 9, 20.
Polygonum viviparum, 29.
Ulmus montana, 27.
Ceratophyllum demersum, 17.
Spiranthes Romanzoffiana, 38.
Epipactis palustris, 40.
Habenaria intacta, 27.
Sisyrinchium angustifolium, 35, $39.
Leucojum aestivum, Io, 14, 18,
133.
*Allium triquetrum, Tf, 4.
toleraceum, 39.
Juncus acutus, II.
obtusiflorus, 35.
Typha angustifolia, 8.
Potamogeton decipiens, 9, 38.
Lizit) 5:
crispus, I.
Eriophorum latifolium, 9, 20.
Carex paradoxa, 9.
divulsa, 9.
strigosa, 27.
naturalized only in Clare and W. Donegal.
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Poa nemoralis, {1. Hymenophyllum tunbridgense, 25.
Glyceria festucaeformis, 9. unilaterale, 25.
Foucaudi, 9. Lycopodium clavatum, 17.
Agropyron pungens, 9. Isoetes echinospora, 9.
Elymus arenarius, *39. Chara polyacantha, 35.
PARTICULARS OF UNPUBLISHED RECORDS.
Geranium columbinum, L.
37. ARMAGH.—Rocky railway bank at south end of Adavoyle station,
’08—P.
Rubus Lindleianus, Lees.
8, LIMERICK.—Plentiful near Killaloe, ’06—Druce in litt. Recorded
but without definite division in J. N., xvi., 148.
10. TIPPERARY N.—Margin of L. Derg, N.E. of Killaloe—Druce
in litt.
R, macrophyllus, Wh. & N., ager.
15. GALWAY S.E.—Near Portumna, ’06—Druce zn litt. Published
but without definite division in J. N., xvi., 148.
*Matricaria discoidea, DC.
34. DonEGAL E.—Roadsides near Londonderry, ’10—W. E. Hart!
Campanula Trachelium, L.
12. WEXFORD.—{On new railway embankment at Kilmanock for the
past two or three years, ’12—G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton !
Linaria repens, L.
13. CARLow.—7fA good colony on a bank near Fenagh House,
(Miss Allen)—D. R. Pack-Beresiord !
*Mimulus guttatus, DC.
30. CAvAN.—Between Blacklion and Dowra, insome quantity, ’09—
R. M. Barrington.
Thymus Chamaedrys, Fr.
g. CLARE.—Slieve Carran, ’08—P.
15. GALWAY S.E.—Ardrahan, ’08—P.
30. CavAN.—Mount Nugent, 1896—P. (teste A. B. Jackson).
38. Down.—Killough, ’02—P.
Stachys Betonica, Benth.
36. TyRONE.—Moygashel, 1} mile south of Dungannon, ’o9g—E. H.
Harper !
Lamium hybridum, Vill.
26. WickLow.—In garden at Marlton, near Wicklow, ’11—Miss
Shillaker !
Hymenophyllum tunbridgense, Smith. \
H. unilaterale, Bory.
25. RoscommMon.—Kilronan Mountain, ’10—W. N. Tetley.
Lycopodium clavatum, L.
17. GALway N.E.—One:-mile west of Ballyglunin station, ’08—
Mrs, Prescott-Decie.
’
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1913. Nature Reserves. tit
NATURE RESERVES.
FORMATION OF A NEW SOCIETY.
[Reprinted, by permission, from The Times of Wednesday,
December 18, I9I2.]
In his recent address to the Zoological Section of the
British Association at Dundee, Dr. Chalmers Mitchell made
a strong appeal for the organized preservation of the
world’s fauna. ‘It is only by the deliberate and conscious
interference of man,” he said, “‘ that the evil wrought by
man has been arrested’; and, again, ‘““Each generation
is the guardian of the existing resources of the world ; it has
come into a great inheritance, but only as a trustee ”’—a
trustee, that is to say, for generations that are to be. That
the larger wild creatures are steadily disappearing from
the face of the earth with the advance of civilization needs
little demonstration. But coincidently with the wholesale
extermination of mammals there is in progress a no less
disastrous process of destruction among the lesser creatures
—birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, and plants—also of geo-
logical remains, and in almost every case this is the result
of “the deliberate and conscious interference of man.”
To arrest this destructive tendency serious consideration
is being given to the subject in many countries. There
exist in the United States “reserves ”’ for the vanishing
human races; in Norway, Sweden, and North Russia,
the Lapps are efficiently protected; in Africa and New
Zealand, as elsewhere in the British Dominions beyond
the seas, large tracts of land have been fenced off, and laws
enacted to prevent the traffic of alcohol and other goods
harmful to the primitive races.
Elsewhere the duty of maintaining particular phases
of human life and of preserving natural objects is recognized
and performed by the community as a whole, acting through
the State; but in the United Kingdom it has been left to
private enterprise and private munificence to establish
and finance such refuges and nature reserves as we actually
possess. Something has been attempted, it is true, to
check the wanton destruction of animal life, by various Acts
of Parliament, the arrangement of “close ’’ seasons, sanc-
112 The Lrish Naturalist. June,
tuaries, &c.; and in the National Trust we have a body
equipped with the necessary authority to take over and
safeguard such gifts of land as may be made by public
enterprise or private liberality. Much has already been
accomplished in this direction by certain societies and
individuals ; but all students and lovers of nature generally
are now invited to combine in support of the Society for
the Promotion of Nature Reserves.
This Society has recently been formed with the following
objects :-—
1. To collect and collate information as to areas of
land in the United Kingdom which retain their primitive
conditions and contain rare and local species liable to ex-
tinction owing to building, drainage, and disafforestation,
or in consequence of the cupidity of collectors. All such
information to be treated as strictly confidential.
2. To prepare a scheme showing which areas should be
secured.
3. To obtain these areas and hand them over to the
National Trust under such conditions as may be necessary.
4. To preserve for posterity as a national possession
some part at least of our native land, its fauna, flora, and
geological features.
5. To encourage the love of Nature, and to educate
public opinion to a better knowledge of the value of Nature
study.
The society exacts no subscription ; members are for-
mally elected by invitation of the Executive Committee
(marked with * below), and all interested are invited to
communicate with the secretaries. The control of the
society’s affairs is in the hands of a representative council
consisting at present of the following :—
President, the Right Hon. J. W. Lowther, m.p. Dr.
I. Bayley Balfour, F.R.s., Sir Edward H. Busk, Sir Francis
Darwin, F.r.s., Dr. F. D. Drewitt, *G. Claridge Druce,
Professor J. Bretland Farmer, t.x.s., L. Fletcher, F.R.s.,
the Right Hon. Sir Edward Grey, Bt., k.c., M.p., the Right
Hon. L. V. Harcourt, m.p., *Sir Robert Hunter, K:c-B.,
Lord Lucas, *E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, *the Hon. E. S.
1913. Nature Reserves 113
Montagu, M.P., the Earl of Plymouth, c.B., Professor E. B.
Poulton, #.R.S., Sir David Prain, F.R.s., *the Hon. N. C.
Rothschild, *W. H. St. Quintin, Dr. R. F. Scharff, W. M.
Webb. £x-officio: Hon. Treasurer, *C. E. Fagan, 1.8.0. ;
Hon. Secretaries, *W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, and *the Hon.
F. R. Henley.
The Trustees of the British Museum have kindly given
permission to the committee to use the Natural History
Museum, Cromwell-road, London, S.W., as the temporary
address of the society.
To carry out the objects of the society prompt action
must be taken, for year by vear suitable areas become
fewer ; and local plants and insects are found to have been
extirpated when the acquisition of a few acres of land
would have saved them. Such land is often unsuitable for
other purposes ; an isolated spot on Government property,
a piece of marshland, a bird-haunted cliff, or a stretch of
wood and copse where the undergrowth has been allowed to
follow its own devices are admirable subjects for nature
reserves. Above all, it is essential that the land selected
or reserved should as far as possible retain its primitive
wildness. Such lands still exist in the United Kingdom,
though each year they become inore rare, and once deprived
of their indigenous occupants they can never be restored
to a natural state. It should be borne in mind that if in
the course of time, owing to the growth of a city, or for
some other reason, a nature reserve has ceased to serve its
purpose, the ground would still be valuable as an open space.
On the Continent, as already observed, the importance
of nature reserves has been widely recognized. In Germany,
particularly, a large amount of land has been reclaimed,
and in a recently published book, Herr H. Conwentz,
Prussian State Commissioner for the Care of Natural
Monuments, gives a detailed account of the work done in
the several States of the Empire. Bavaria, more than a
hundred years ago, bought up the Bamberg suburban
woods, afterwards forbidding indiscriminate forestry, and
ordering the foresters to preserve and catalogue the chief
natural features. Later, a general committee composed
114 The lrish Naturalist June,
of delegates from the municipality and from local and
artistic societies have been exceptionally successful in
securing wild “parks” for rare plants. In Hessen and
Oldenburg special attention has been paid to the preservation
of primeval forest land ; while in the first years of the new
century Prussia began to recognize the necessity of pro-
tecting nature reserves, and these have since been regularly
registered and mapped, Parliament, the Education Depart-
ment, and the Department of Agriculture and Domains
acting conjointly to assist the movement. Thus, Memmert,
an uninhabited island between Juist and Borkum in the
German Ocean, is now reserved as a bird sanctuary, with a
watcher to look after it during the breeding season ; and
a tract of salt marsh near Artern perpetuates the plant
association of the locality. Elsewhere spots especially
favoured by wild nature have been similarly secured ; for
example, the Prussian Government, the local authori-
ties and societies, and private individuals have all
co-operated to secure the forest district of Chorin, near
Berlin, including fenland and a small lake, also a tract
of forest in the Hartz Mountains. Saxony has followed
this example. In Holland, the Naardermeer, in the south
of the Zuider Zee, with its rich avifauna, is now effectively
isolated, while in Sweden immense stretches of country
in the far north and elsewhere have been closed to the
collector, not before it was necessary. It is common
knowledge that before the reservation of the magnificent
Lapland country round the Tornea Trask, and simultaneously
with the opening of the Baltic- Atlantic railway, the district
was ruthlessly over-collected by dealers and others; in
one summer a single individual is credited with the removal
of r0,000 plants. In Hungary there are several reserved
areas ; one of them at Puszta-Pészer, in the Pest Comitat.
In France good work has been done by the Forest Board
in the protection of undergrowth and by some local pro-
hibitions in the departments of Isére and Savoie on behalf
of a few Alpine plants. Much the same may be said of
Switzerland, where a few cantons have issued edicts against
the destruction of Edelweiss and other “threatened ”
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flowers. In Belgium, though at present little has been
done officially in the way of protection, the Royal Botanical
Society has completed an admirable survey of desirable
natural sites (‘Pour la Protection de la Nature en
Belgique.”’ Jean Massart, 1912), and this work has aroused
general public interest.
In the United States, where it is obvious that the con-
ditions are entirely different as far as the acquisition of
primitive land is concerned, the system of “ National
Parks ’’ has been inaugurated, but unfortunately too late
to save a large part of the indigenous fauna. Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa have set the
Mother Country a splendid example of what can be done in
this direction. In England, where space is limited, and
the population numerous, a beginning has been made by
the acquisition for the nation of a part of Wicken Fen, in
Cambridgeshire, the shingle and salt-marshes of Blakeney,
in Norfolk (described in The Times of November 30),
and the ‘‘ Ruskin Reserve ”’ near Oxford: all these retain
their primitive character. Much more remains to be done,
and it is hoped that the “Society for the Promotion of
Nature Reserves” will meet with wide and sympathetic
support.
OBITUARY.
HUGH LAMONT ORR.
On April 14th Hugh Lamont Orr passed away at Belfast, and his death
removes one of the most active workers of the Belfast Naturalists’ Field
Club. A keen conchologist and entomologist, he was never so happy
as when out on some mountain or glen-side, and few had a better knowledge
of the best localities for field work in the north-east of Ireland. In the
technical skill required in mounting and fitting up cases of natural history
specimens he had few equals in this country, and his services and advice
were always at the disposal of young naturalists. The Public Museum
in Belfast often benefited by his donations. His skill as an amateur
worker in wood and metal was often of great service at the annual
conversaziones of the Field Club. He was an occasional contributor to
this Journal and:a subscriber from the first number. For some years
he had been engaged on a list of the Wild Bees and Wasps of the North-
east of Ireland,
II6 The Irish Natusalist. June,
IRISH SOCIETIES.
ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Recent gifts include a Guinea Baboon and a Leopard from Captain G.
Furnell, a pair of Nigerian Lion Cubs from Lieutenant Ackland, a Malabar
Squirrel from Dr. R. R. Leeper, and a Royal Python from Captain Lefroy.
A number of animals have been acquired by purchase or deposit, including
a pair of Pig-tailed Monkeys, two Red Howler Monkeys, a Black Agouti,
Brazilian and Black Squirrels, a pair of Paradoxures, a Rasse, a pair of
Persian Jackals, a pair of Ariel Toucans, and a pair of Flamingoes. <A
Tree Porcupine has been born in the Gardens, and the Black-necked
Swans on the lake have reared two young birds.
The newly-arrived Nigerian lion-cubs have short hair of a rich brown
colour, contrasting with the longer-haired, pale-coated specimens born in
the Dublin Lion-house.
DUBLIN MICROSCOPICAL CLUB.
APRIL 9.—The Club met at Leinster House, J. H. WoopwortH
(President) in the Chair.
N. Cortcan exhibited living specimens of freshly hatched Actaeonia
Cocksi, together with living specimens of the adult animal and of the
closely allied Limapontia capitata. Eggs of both species were also shown,
those of Actaeonia being in an advanced stage of development, with the
eyes and body-pigment of the embryos clearly visible through the shell.
The young Actaeoniae were about I mm. in length and at this early stage,
with the characteristic tentacular processes as yet quite undeveloped,
were very similar in aspect to Limapontia. The egg-clusters exhibited
were of interest as showing the aberrant nature of the development in
the genus Actaeonia, which alone amongst the opisthobranch mollusca,
as Pelseneer has shewn, dispenses with the free veliger stage. The
young Actaeoniae, just 4 days old, had been hatched out from an egg
cluster taken in a half-tide pool at Bullock, Dublin Bay, on the 2cth
March last.
R. SoUTHERN showed a specimen of Grania maricola, an oligochate
worm obtained in the course of the Clare Island Survey. The
remarkable character of this species necessitate the creation of a new
genus, named after the famous chieftainess of Clare Island. The genus
is characterised by the peculiar arrangement and structure of the setae,
which are absent in the anterior region of the body. This species is
also noteworthy as being the first oligochate obtained below low-water
mark. It was dredged in 24 fathoms in Clew Bay, and has since been
found in 20 fathoms in Dingle Bay. A full description is published
in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (Clare Island Survey),
vol. xxxl.
J. N. HALBERT exhibited specimens of an interesting kind of mite which
was found adhering to the bodies of centipedes from Trinidad. The mite
1913. Lrish Societies. 117
_ belongs to the family Gamasidae and has recently been described by
Dr. Ivor Trigordh under the name of Discomegistus pectinatus (Archiv
for Zoologt, vii.). The original specimens, from which the species was
described, were also obtained from a large centipede (Scolopendra
gigantea) from the same locality. The species shows some interesting
structures which are evidently adaptations enabling it to cling securely
to the smooth bodies of the centipedes on which it lives.
BELFAST NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB.
APRIL 15.—The fiftieth annual meeting was held in the Old Museum.
In the unavoidable absence of the President (Rev. Canon Lett), R. J.
WELCH presided.
Before proceeding to the business of the meeting, the Chairman moved
a vote of condolence to the relatives of the late Hugh Lamont Orr, who
Was a warm supporter of the Club, and for many years a very active
member. The motion was passed, by the members standing, in silence.
The Honorary Secretary (A. W. STELFox) read the annual report,
-which contained the following :—A considerable amount of active field
work has been accomplished by members in botany, zoology, geology,
and archaeology. A meeting to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary otf the
Club’s foundation will be held on the 10th day of next month, at which
delegates representing many of the great natural history societies of the
United Kingdom will be present. The Committee rejoice that of the
sixty-nine persons who signed the document requesting the formation of
the Club in 1863 six are still with us, and hope to be present at the
celebration meeting. The membership on 31st March, 1913, stands at
381. The winter session was opened by the usual conversazione, held in
the Assembly Buildings on 31st October, at which 310 persons were
present. The winter meetings were held in the Museum, College Square,
North, the Club having again been granted the use of their rooms on the
old terms by the Belfast Corporation. F. Balfour-Browne, M.A,
represented the Club at the British Association Conference of Delegates,
held at Dundee in September, 1912, and has submitted his report, which
will be found in the Proceedings. The Committee are glad to be able
to announce that there has been fair competition for some of the prizes
offered to pupils attending secondary schools in Ulster. The Committee
regret, however, that no junior member of the Club was sufficiently
energetic to compete for the prizes offered by the Chairman of the junior
section. For hospitality received by members of the Club, and for
permission to visit their estates, the Committee desire to place on record
their thanks to Lord Rossmore, Lord Roden, Sir Frederic Lambert, of
Beau Parc; Mr, W. f.)D." Walker, ©.5., or Drogheda: and. Mur, Hi,
Armytage-Moore, J.P., of Rowallane, County Down. The Committee
desire to thank also the superintendents of the various railway companies
for the kind attention and facilities afforded in the summer excursions,
the Press for publishing reports of the Club’s meetings, and the public
bodies and kindred societies, who have favoured the Club with their
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publications during the past year. The Committee beg to draw attention
to the resignation of Mr. W. H. Phillips, and desire to thank him for his
devoted service in the past. Towards the middle of the first year of the
Club’s existence, in 1863, Mr. Phillips took on the duties of treasurer,
which position was left vacant by the death of A. F. Herdman. In
1870 Mr. Phillips resigned, but in 1891 he was again elected treasurer,
a position which he has therefore occupied for twenty-eight out of the
fifty years during whch the Club has been in existence.
W. H. Phillips read his statement of accounts, the librarian (S. Weir)
his report for the past year, and the following honorary secretaries gave
the reports of their respective sections :—N. Carrothers, Miss M. K.
Andrews, N. H. Foster, J. A. S. Stendall, and Robert May.
In moving the adoption of these reports, the Chairman expressed the
gratitude the Club felt towards Mr. Phillips for the services he had
rendered it, and his remarks were endorsed by William Gray, M.R.I.A.,
who seconded the motion. Mr. Welch also drew the attention of all
members to the coming celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary.
The following officers were elected for 1913-14 :—President, Rev.
Canon Lett; Vice-President, R. Lloyd Praeger; Librarian, Sylvanus
Wear; Treasurer, N. H. Foster; Secretaries, A. W. Stelfox and Miss
M. D. Mitchell.
Suggestions for places to be visited during the summer session were
received, and the business of the meeting was then brought to a conclusion.
DUBLIN NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB.
Marcu 4th.—W. F. Gunn (President) in the chair. R. Ll. PRAEGER
opened a discussion on ‘‘ What do we mean by a Native Species ?’’ He
drew attention to the importance of the question from a scientific point
of view. In the study of the distribution of plants and animals naturalists
were endeavouring to restore the old aboriginal fauna and flora of the
country. The main thing which altered the fauna and flora of Europe
was the breaking down of the great European forest belt which let loose
the Mediterranean fauna and flora northward and westward. There was.
he thought, a great tendency when one found a plant to make it as native
as possible. Mr. Praeger defined as native the plant naturally growing
in a natural habitat to which it has been carried by natural means.
N. Colgan said there was no single word which would describe the
native plant. He objected to the word “‘ nativity,” for it was altogether
out of place, while “‘ aboriginality ’’ was abominable.
Messrs. W. F. Gunn, W. de V. Kane, R. M. Barrington, C. B. Moffat,
and Professor J. Bayley Butler also took part in the discussion.
The following exhibits were on view :—A representative collection of
the seeds of the Family Leguminose: W. F. Gunn. Some forms of
Plant Stems: R. Ll. Praeger. Miss K. E. Beveridge and Miss Barnes
were elected members.
APRIL 8.—kR. Ll. PRAEGER, M.R.I.A., in the chair.
The programme of the meeting consisted of a number of exhibits.
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1913. Lrish Societies. 119
W. IF. GuNN had on view a microscopic preparation of anthers of the
Mallow in which the pollen grains were beginning to escape.
R. LL PRAEGER, Ulex strictus, Mackay, a curious “sport’”’ of the
Common Whin, first discovered on Lord Londonderry’s estate in Co.
Down, and was for some time thought to be a new species. It has,
however, since been proved that it does not always breed true from
seed, but shows a tendency to revert to the common type. It can be
grown trom cuttings without any difficulty.
J. N. HALBERT, a collection of Irish Dragonflies, of which he explained
the distribution and habits.
W. B. WriGurt, a series of photographs illustrating the glacial geology
of County Kerry. Mr. Wright explained how, in the valley of the Kenmare
River, the shore lines of old glacial barrier lakes had been discovered
comparable to the famous ‘‘ Parallel Roads of Glenroy ”’ in Inverness-shire.
C. M. SELBIE, B.Sc., a Decapod Crustacean new to Irish waters ;
Munidopstis curvirosta, Whit.
ALEXANDER WILLIAMS, R.H.A., some specimens of copper ore from
Beauparc copper mine.
Specimens of Lichens collected on the Howth excursion on 5th April
were also exhibited.
Mrs. Palmieri and Miss Sweeny were elected members.
NOTES.
BOTANY.
Trifolium filiforme in West Mayo.
The Earl of Gainsborough has sent me a specimen of Trifolium filiforme
gathered on a wall between Mallaranny Hotel and the new chapel. In
response to enquiries, he searched for more, but could not find additional
specimens. Perhaps some botanist visiting Mallaranny this season will
watch for the plant. Though usually introduced with lawn grass-seed
it is undoubtedly native in certain of its Irish stations, and this plant
may have come from a native station. I did not notice it last August
in the lawns around the hotel.
R. LLoyD PRAEGER.
Dublin.
The Cowslip in County Down.
Driving from Rostrevor to Warrenpoint last April, I noticed Cowslips
flowering in several old pasture fields by the roadside. Though recorded
from various stations in the north-east, ‘‘ Wood at Rostrevor: William
Gray,’’ was the only record which S. A. Stewart admitted to the Flora
of the North-east of Ireland, adding “‘ possibly introduced at Rostrevor,
but this seems the only station in our district where it is probably native.”
120 : The Irish Naturalist. June,
Cowslips do not grow naturally in woods, and what evidence Mr. Stewart
had in favour of this station I do not know; but when he and I failed to
see the plant anywhere about Rostrevor during our survey of the Mourne
Mountains, he wrote :—‘‘ Must be removed trom the list of native
plants’ (J. N., iii., 54, 1894). In the following year, I quoted an instance
of Cowslips having been spread over an old meadow in Antrim by means
of irrigating water which had flowed through a stack-yard where hay
containing the remains of planted Cowslips had been stored (Suppl.
Flova N. E. Iveland); and I was inclined to discount the occurrence of
the plant as a native in the North-east. In connection with its
occurrence near Rostrevor, Miss Angela Ross-of-Bladensburg, who knows
the district well, kindly writes :—‘‘ There are very few Cowslips about
here. I have only found them in the fields going to Warrenpoint and
at Ballyedmond beyond Killowen. There are a few here (at Fairy Hill,
Rostrevor) under beech trees near the garden. I have never seen any
in really wild places nor further inland. They grow near houses beside
Primroses in grass that is usually kept for hay—there are always Daffodils
near. When we first came here there were only one or two little plants ;
now there are several, but they do not seem to increase quickly. I am
sure they are not native.’’ The evidence seems against the Cowslip
being indigenous in Down; but we must not forget that its natural
habitat is just those lowland grass-lands which are seized upon by man
for lawns and pastures, where it persists in spite of, and not because of,
man’s presence. So we cannot be sure that we are not dealing with a
relict plant rather than an introduction. As an apparently native species
the Cowslip occurs mainly on limestone, and on the east coast extends
northward as far as Louth, but does not appear to cross the mountain
barrier that stretches from Carlingford to Slieve Gullion. Further west
it follows the limestone as far north as Lough Sheelin and Lower Lough
Erne. Its occurrence as a native except on calcareous soils appears to
be very rare.
R. LLoyD PRAEGER.
Dublin.
ZOOLOGY.
Bees and Flowers.
I read with amusement in the April number (supra, p. 65) Mr. Moffat’s
“rule of the bee, especially the Honey Bee, against mixing the honey or
pollen of different species of plants.’’ I do not question the correctness of
his observation on the bed of wall-flowers ; nor his later observations on
the curious mixing of honey from Lathyrus and Ajuga, but the “ rule’”’
has very many exceptions. Except when one flower is in such abundance
that a load is easily gathered, the Honey-bee wanders freely to any plant
in blossom. ‘This is the first fine day since I read the article. I have,
for ten minutes or so, watched four honey-bees in succession. They
visited (a) white single Arabis; (b) white double Arabis; (c) purple
1913. Notes. 121
Aubretia ; and (d) blue forget-me-not: One comes from (e) a gooseberry
bush with about a half load of honey; one visited also a few blossoms
of (f) yellow Alyssum. They did not visit these in any particular order,
all showed a preference for forget-me-not, which seemed to yield nothing.
“Bees do nothing invariably.”
ALEX. H. DELApP.
Valentia, Co. Kerry.
A “Slow-Worm” near Ballyshannon.
This day week a man found on the bank of the River Erne close to the
town of Ballyshannon, a live specimen of the “ Blindworm”’ (A ngizis
fragilis). It was in long grass close to the river bank. The man thought
it was a snake, and killed it ; it was shown to me as such, when I recognised
it as the above. This is the first time such was observed, and it appears
to be rare in Ireland (if ever observed before), though common enough
in England.
H. ALLINGHAM.
Ballyshannon.
[The Slow-worm is not regarded as indigenous in Ireland, and as
specimens are often kept in vivaria, Mr. Allingham’s specimen was, in all
probability, introduced.—Ed. ]
Snakes introduced into County Down.
The note on ‘“‘ Adders and Toads in Co. Down,” in the Ivish Naturalist
for April, reminds me of an item in “‘ The Book of Days,’’ by R. Chambers,
published in 1863. Under the date of March the seventeenth is the cir-
cumstantial account which I quote in full. Perhaps this is the same
experiment as that mentioned by Dr. Bryce, though neither adders nor
toads appear.
W. E. PRAEGER.
Kalamazoo College, Michigan.
““In 1831, Mr. James Cleland, an Irish gentleman, being curious to
ascertain whether the climate or soil of Ireland was naturally destructive
to the serpent tribe, purchased half-a-dozen of the common harmless
English snake (Natrix torquata), in Covent Garden market in London.
Bringing them to Ireland, he turned them out in his garden at Rath-gael,
in the County of Down ; and in a week afterwards one of them was killed
at Milecross, about three miles distant. The persons into whose hands
this strange monster fell, had not the slightest suspicion that it was a
snake, but, considering it a curious kind of eel, they took it to Dr. J. L.
Drummond, a celebrated Irish naturalist, who at once pronounced the
animal to be a reptile and nota fish. The idea of a ‘ rale living Sarpint ’
having been killed within a short distance of the very burial place of St.
Patrick, caused an extraordinary sensation of alarm among the country
I22 The Lrish Naturalist. June,
people. The most absurd rumours were freely circulated and credited.
One far-seeing clergyman preached a sermon, in which he cited this
unfortunate snake as a token of the immediate coming of the millennium ;
while another saw in it a type of the approach of the cholera morbus.
Old prophecies were raked up, and all parties and sects, for once, united
_ in believing that the snake foreshadowed ‘the beginning of the end’
though they very widely differed as to what that end was to be. Some
more practically-minded persons, however, subscribed a considerable
sum Of money, which they offered in rewards for the destruction of any
other snakes that might be found in the district. And three more snakes
were not long afterwards killed, within a few miles of the garden where
they were liberated. The remaining two snakes were never very clearly
accounted for ; but no doubt they also fell victims to the reward. The
writer, who resided in that part of the country at the time, well remem-
bers the wild rumours among the more illiterate classes, on the appear-
ance of those snakes; and the bitter feelings of angry indignation
expressed against those who dared to bring them to Ireland.”
Snowy Owl on Tory Island.
On April 5th I received from Tory Island, Donegal, a fine specimen
(male) of the Snowy Owl (Nyciea scandiaca). Measurement of wings
from tip to tip of longest primaries, 574 inches—or two inches short of
5 feet; weight, 3 lbs. 9 oz. There are about thirty Irish records in the
19th century, and a few since—the great bulk of them being, as might be
expected, from the northern and western counties, especially Mayo. .
Looking over the index to the Ivish Naturalist which I published in rg11, I
find under ** Snowy Owl”’ that ‘ vol. xviil., p. 106’ should be vol. xviii.,
p. 160. I also notice that on p. 100 of the same volume Mr. Ussher gives
several records of this species, Montagu’s Harrier, Rough-legged Buzzard,
and Greenland Falcon, none of which appear in the index to that volume
under the names of these birds, but the communication is simply indexed
under ‘‘ Ussher ’’ and under “ Birds.” This defect in the original index
is of course responsible for a similar imperfection in mine, which purports
to be only an index ¢o the indices of eighteen volumes.
RICHARD M. BARRINGTON.
Fassaroe, Bray.
Extermination of the Capercailie,
In the review of Parts IX. and X. of the “ British Bird Book ”’ (antea
p- 55) it is stated that ‘“‘ Mr. Jourdain, by an obvious slip, states that the
Capercaillie was exterminated in Scotland and Ireland, during the second
half of the nineteenth century.’ ” Permit me to point out that the
mistake in question was not made by me, and that on p. 2 I have distinctly
stated that ‘‘ in Scotland and Ireland it survived till the latter half of the
eighteenth century, but then became extinct.”
F. C. R. JOURDAIN.
Clifton, Derbyshire.
1913. Notes. 123
Stone Curlew and Ivory Gull in County Cork.
We received a Stone Curlew shot by Col. Morris at Castletownshend,
Co. Cork, on February 24th. The bird was an adult female, in fine
plumage, and was feeding with a small flock of Curlew in some fields.
This is we understand the first occurrence in the county. The specimen
is being presented by the owner (Sir Edgar Coghill) to the University
College Museum, Cork. Another very rare visitor has also been obtained
viz., the Ivory Gull. Unfortunately this fine specimen, an adult male,
was apparently attacked by a Peregrine, and the breast, wing and leg were
the only parts left. It was picked up on the Marina, Cork, where it was
apparently dropped by the Peregrine in flight or from a tree, on February
16th. The plumage and skin were quite fresh, and had portions of flesh,
&c., adhering. We believe this is the third record of the Ivory Gull
in Ireland. The recent severe weather no doubt account for these visitors,
as well as an abnormal number of Great Northern Divers (some in summer
plumage) recently got off this coast. Both the above specimens were
seen by Mr. Robert Warren and Mr. R. J. Ussher.
Rouu & Sons.
Cork.
Ivory Gull in County Donegal.
A beautiful specimen of the Ivory Gull (Pagophela eburnea) (female)
in immature plumage was shot at Teelin, near Carrick, Co. Donegal,
on March 25th, and forwarded to me in the flesh. This is the fifth Irish
record, and the second this year. All were obtained in the early spring
on our S. or W. coasts. The comparatively small feet with rough, thick
scalloped webs and Skua-like claws were remarkable, but the web men-
tioned in Saunders’ ‘‘ Manual,’’ between the tarsus and hind toe was not
well marked, as stated by him.
RICHARD M. BARRINGTON.
Fassaroe, Bray.
Gannets on the Skelligs in 1700.
In the “ Birds of Ireland,’’ and in Mr. Ussher’s “‘ List of Irish Birds,
1908,” (to be had at the National Museum, Dublin), he mentions Smith’s
record of 1750 as the earliest known to him of the Gannet colony on the
Skelligs. There is, however, in Brady’s Records of Cork, Cloyne and Ross
published by Alexander Thom, Dublin, in 1863, an account of a tour of
Bishop Dive Downes, in which, under the heading of Kilmore Parish.
and dated 3rd June, 1700, the following occurs:—‘‘ We saw also from
thence (7.e., Mt. Gabriel), Ballineskellix Islands in Kerry. On the Skellix
the ganmnet, as big as a goose, breeds.’’ That is fifty years earlier than
the date mentioned by Mr. Ussher, and on my drawing his attention to
124 The lrish Naturalist, June, 1913.
this, he requests me to publish this notice, as the record does not seem to
be known to ornithologists and shows that the Gannet colony on the
Skelligs has been established over 200 years.
W. M. ABBoTT.
Fermoy.
The Proportion in Numbers of White and Pied Wagtails observed
on Migration at the Tuskar Light-Station.
Before I took up the study of bird-migration at the Tuskar light-station
I was under the impression that the Pied Wagtail occurred in much larger
numbers in Ireland during the migration seasons than did the White
Wagtail. However, in examining the specimens which I collected, twenty-
one in all, I found that over two-thirds were White Wagtails, the number
being fifteen, and only six Pied Wagtails.
In the autumn of 1911 I obtained two White and one Pied, in the
spring of 1912 three Pied and two White. (I should have been able to
obtain a great many more White had I remained longer, for the species
was only just beginning to arrive when I had to go.) In the autumn of
1912 I obtained eleven White and two Pied. Of the two species the
Pied Wagtails appeared earlier in the spring, and later in the autumn
I am deeply indebted to Mr. Eagle Clarke for his careful examination of
the skins of these birds. Many were in immature garb, a phase of plumage
when the two species are closely alike, and it requires a practised eye to
distinguish them.
C.J" PATTERN,
University, Sheffield.
The Irish Wild Cat,
I donot think any evidence is likely to be obtained which will satisfy
both Dr. Scharff and Mr. Warren as to the real character of the cat found
by Mr. Ussher in the Irish caves. It would be well, however, to describe
in plain language, as far as possible, for the benefit of sportsmen, game-
keepers, and trappers, how they are to distinguish the descendants of
the Irish Cave Cat from the descendants of the introduced Domestic Cat
which has gone wild.
I entirely agree with Mr. Warren as to the large size attained by “‘ wild
tame ¢ats.”” Fright and agony combined render them dangerous customers
in a rabbit trap when held merely by the hind toe. ©
Possibly an appeal in the trapping season, if made by Dr. Scharff
through the public press, would procure for him some gigantic specimens
of these well known “ wild tame ’”’ cats.
RICHARD M. BARRINGTON.
Fassaroe, Bray.
July, 1913. The Trish Naturalist. 125
WILD CATS IN IRELAND.
BY J. A. HARVIE-BROWN, F.R.S.E.
I observe the question discussed in the pages of the
Irish Naturalist as regards the occurrence of the true Wild
Cat in Ireland within historic times, and I am fairly well
acquainted with all previous accounts. I thoroughly
agree with Mr. Robert Warren’s views (supra pp. 94-6) as
regards the matter, and with all he says against the im-
perfect evidence adduced in favour of its presence in
Ireland at any time during, say, the last hundred years.
Further, I have had very good and abundant cause to
support him in his judgment that “* Stories of Wild Cats by
the country people should not be credited as referring
to the true Wild Cat, but to the Domestic Cat run wild,
and bred wild,” &c., &c., and this in spite of Dr. Scharff’s
criticism, of such an opinion of the “ veracity of country
people” being ‘“‘severe.”” As most of us who have lived
a large portion of our lives—portions too, actively em-
ployed in observation, and the disentanglement of current
statements by our Highland informants—know well, what
Mr. Warren says is quite to the point ; that such are “‘ very
unreliable,” and require close cross-questioning of often
prolonged and even tedious nature. Frequently if the
investigator is a stranger, or visits a locality for the first
time, and proceeds with his enquiries from a man whom he
does not know, and who does not know him—very often
indeed the native says what he thinks will give pleasure,
without much regard to the facts. Especially should
leading questions be avoided! I have always found it
necessary first to know my man, and be known to him,
before crediting all I hear. After that the difficulty is
less. Likewise, the imperfect knowledge of the Sassenach
language which many Highlanders have is a great stumbling
block, especially to the Sassenach' who comes from south
of the Border, as well as to his informant.
1 By “Sassenach’’ I do not mean, however, the Englishman, for we
lowland ‘‘Scotch”’ are just Sassenachs too—but the further removed
the Sassenach may be from the Border—of course I refer to our Scottish
Borders—the more difficult it will prove—as it has proved—for the in-
A
126 The lrish Naturalist. hy July,
I think it has been stated that the skull or bones of
a Wild Cat? have been discovered in some one or more of
the wonderful bone-caves of Ireland, but I do not propose
going into that part of the question here, as that phase
has no particular bearing upon the more recent proofs—
or statements—regarding the occurrence of the species
within historic times.
Suffice it to say, that I cannot accept any of the proofs—
so-called—of any occurrence of true Wild Cats—well, say,
since Thompson wrote his valuable work (t.e., without
referring back to earlier writers such as Gerald Boate or
even Wilde)—nor the statements of the “ oldest inhabitant.”
As already said, such statements are often quite imaginative,
and are often dressed up to please the hearer; or may
arise from an imperfect appreciation of the English
questioning.
The fact remains that while the Marten Cat is still found
in Ireland, it has long since, and within historic time,
become extinct in all the Hebrides south of the Sound of
Harris, and has lately also ceased to exist even in its last
refuges in the mountainous portions of Harris and Lewis.
The Wild Cat has not been known anywhere in the Outer
Isles at any time within our ken. And when that is con-
sidered along with the imperfect evidence of its recent
presence in Ireland, it must be evident surely, that at
least more definite and abundant proof is required of that
before any such “wild” statements can be accepted by
those who make a special study of distribution and dis-
persal, to say nothing of dominancy and migrations.
Dunipace, Larbert, Scotland.
vestigator and his informant, the one ignorant of Gaelic, and the other
equally so—or only with imperfect knowledge—of the English language,
to understand one another. The language of ‘“‘ Yea” and ‘‘ Nay”’ is
not sufficient to clear up doubts.
2 [Not the Wild Cat of Scotland, but Felis ocreata of the Mediterranean
Kegion. See R. F. Scharff in Ivish Naturalist, xiv., 1905, D..79 <a 0c,
Rk, I. Acad., vol, xxvi., 1906, pp. I-12 and infra p. 127.—EDS.].
1913. SCHARFF.— Supposed Wild Cat tn Lreland. 127
ON THE SUPPOSED OCCURRENCE OF THE WILD
CAT IN IRELAND.
BY R. F. SCHARFF, |PH:D.
In the June number of the J7ish Naturalist (supra, p. 124)
Mr. Barrington suggests that I should describe in plain
language how the descendants of the Irish Cave Cat, if such
still exist, are to be distinguished from the Domestic Cats
that have gone wild. It is not an easy task for me to
describe what I have not seen, and yet it is reasonable
to enquire what I expect the Irish Wild Cat to look like.
Mr. Warren’s repeated references to Felis catus (supra
pp. 94-6)imply that he is thinking of a cat witha bushy tail.
It is natural enough that we should be looking for a bushy
tail among the supposed Irish Wild Cats because the Scottish
Wild Cat possesses that feature. But I urged already eight
years ago! that the undoubtedly wild Irish Cave Cat pro-
bably had a pointed tail. I also showed that the teeth of
this cat, which had been found fossil in the caves of County
Clare are not like those of the Scottish Wild Cat. The
teeth resemble those of the Wild Cat of Sardinia and Africa,
If the Irish Wild Cat still occurs in outlying parts of Mayo
and Donegal we can recognise it by its teeth. The back
cheek teeth of both upper and lower jaw are considerably
larger in the fossil jaws of the Irish Cave Cat than in the
Domestic Cat.
We possess in the National Museum a skull of an enormous
cat which was killed in a rabbit-warren near Greystones,
and another skull of a huge fierce cat which terrorised the
birds in the Zoological Gardens for years and was finally
shot. Both of these specimens had the back teeth of an
ordinary Domestic Cat, and were therefore not truly
Wild Cats.”
Hence, the trapper and sportsman should examine the
teeth of the cats if he wants to find out whether they are
Domestic Cats gone wild, or genuine Wild Cats. I must
1 Irish Naturalist, voi, xiv., 1905, p. 79.
128 The Trish Naturalst. July,
own that during the life-time of the captured specimen this
process of examination may attract few, if any, sportsmen.
Even dead cats are not pleasant to handle, and I would
suggest that any cats infesting rabbit-warrens in the more
remote parts of Ireland, which have to be killed, should be
immediately forwarded to me for examination. The
postage and incidental expenses will be refunded, if desired.
I believe the Irish Wild Cat much resembled the ordinary
domestic tabby cat, that it had a pointed tail which was
black at the tip, that it was grey in colour with dark trans-
verse markings on the limbs, and less so on the body. It
is quite possible, as I mentioned before, that a true Wild Cat
still exists in Ireland, and I trust the readers of the I7ish
Naturalist will help me to solve this problem.
National Museum, Dublin.
NOTES ON IRISH MYRIAPODA.
BY REV. W. F. JOHNSON, M.A., F.E.S.
So little is known about Irish Myriapoda that I make
no apology for recording the very commonest species.
Thirty-six species have up to the present been recorded
as occurring in Ireland, to these I am able to add seven,
and these I have marked with an asterisk in the list which
follows. .Two genera of Myriapoda are only too well
known to gardeners, viz., the long narrow, yellow centipede,
Geophilus, and the round black millipede, Julus. Both
are injurious to plants, attacking the roots, and war is
consequently waged upon them. Another genus, how-
ever, which is pretty common about gardens is not in-
jurious, being carnivorous; this is Lithobius, the broad
flat centipede. I shall be much obliged for specimens of
Myriapoda of any kind. . They can be sent either in
spirits of wine or in moss in a tin box. Of the localities
mentioned below—Dromantine is in the County Down
about three miles from this. Acton Wood, Demoan Wood
and the canal bank are all near Poyntzpass, and in County
Armagh,
1913. Jounson.—WNotes on Lrish Myriapoda. 129
Unless otherwise stated the captures are my own. I have
used the following abbreviations for names of collectors :—
N.H.F. x Nevin H. Foster.
BL: = the late H. Lamont Orr.
A.W:S. = A. W. Stelfox.
and I beg to thank them for their kind assistance. I have
followed Dr. Latzel in the arrangement of the genera.
I am much indebted to Mr. H. W. Brélemann for kind
help with two or three species about which I was doubtful.
CHILOPODA.
Lithobius variegatus, Leach.—Lough Dhu, Sallagh Braes, Co. Antrim,
at 1,000 feet elevation (A.W.S.). Coolmore, Co. Donegal, under stones,
in September. Acton Wood, in moss, in November’ and December.
Demoan Wood, in moss, in January. Dromantine, in moss, in January.
Poyntzpass, in rotten wood, in May.
L. forficatus, Linné.—Coolmore, under stones, in September. Poyntz-
pass, in garden, under stones and pieces of wood, very common.
L. melanops, Newport (glabratus, C. Koch).—Coolmore, under stones,
in September. Poyntzpass, under bark of Pinus sylvestris, in January.
*L. agilis, C. Koch.—Coolmore, under stones, in September. Acton
Wood, in moss, in December. I took’a female which had three genital
spurs on the right side and two on the left. In the ordinary form there
are two on each side.
*L, borealis, Meinert.—Coolmore, under stones, in September. Acton
Wood, in moss, in November and December. Demoan Wood, in moss, in
January. I took a female in which the genital spurs instead of being of
equal length had one much larger and longer than the other, and had the
genital claw bilobed instead of trilobed.
*L. crassipes, L. Koch.—Acton Wood, in moss, in November. Poyntz-
pass, in garden, in May. One specimen had the left antenna 21-jointed,
and the right 25-jointed.
Geophilus carpophagus, Leach (condylogaster, Latzel).—Delamere, Bel-
fast (A.W.S.). Poyntzpass, in garden, much too common.
G. longicornis, Leach (flavipes, De Geer).—Poyntzpass, in garden, in
March and May.
Linotaenia crassipes, C. Koch.—Poyntzpass, in garden, in February.
Schendyla nemorensis, C. Koch.—Poyntzpass, in garden, in February.
DIPLOPODA.
Glomeris marginata, Villers—Acton Wood, in moss, in November.
Poyntzpass, under stone on roadside, in April. The only species of
Glomeris hitherto found in the British Islands. Dr. Latzel enumerates
fourteen species.
130 . The Irish Naturalist. — . July,
Brachydesmus_ superus, Latzel.—Coolmore, in September. Bally-
workan, near Portadown, under logs in a bog, in July. Poyntzpass, in
garden, &c., in March and May. Acton Wood, in moss, in November.
Demoan Wood and Dromantine, in moss, in January.
Polydesmus complanatus, Linné.—Belfast (H.L.O.). Acton Wood, in
moss, in December.
*P, edentulus, C. Koch.—Belfast (H.L.O.). Canal bank, under stones,
in June. Poyntzpass, in garden, in April.
Atractosoma polydesmoides, Leach (bohemicum, Rosicky).
in September. Poyntzpass, in garden, in October. The Scalp, Co.
Dublin, in January (A.W.S.). *
Blaniulus pulehellus, Leach (venusius Meinert). snleieah ge Wood, in moss,
in November. Poyntzpass, under bark of Pinus sylvestyis in December,
and in rotting wood in May. Dromantine, in moss, in January.
I have followed Dr. Latzel in the synonymy of this species. Dr. Leach
places his I. pulchellus between I. punctatus, Leach, and J. pusillus, Leach,
both of which have eyes, and in his definition of the genus, says :—‘ Oculi
distincti,’”” vide Leach, Zoological Miscellany, vol. iii., 1817 :— ‘‘ The
characters of the genera of the Class Myriapoda, with descriptions of some
species.”
B. fuseus, Am. Stein.—Acton Wood, in moss, in December. Demoan
Wood, in moss, in January.
Iulus luseus, Meinert.—Coolmore, in September. Poyntzpass, in garden,
in April.
*J, luridus, C. Koch.—Acton Wood, in moss, in November. Canal bank,
under stones, in June. Poyntzpass, under bark, May and June.
I, fallax, Meinert.—Navan Fort, Armagh (N.H.F.). Coolmore, in Sep-
tember. Acton Wood, in moss, in November. Dromantine, in moss,
in January. Canal bank, under stones, in June. Poyntzpass, in garden,
&c., March, June, November. A common and variable species.
*J, scandinavius, Latzel.— Acton Wood, in moss, in November. Dro-
mantine, in moss, in January.
I. sabulosus, Linné.—Navan Fort, Armagh, in June (N.H.F.).
I, albipes, C. Koch.—Ballyworkan, near Portadown, under logs ‘n-
bog, in July. Poyntzpass, in garden, February, March, June, in a beehive
in March. What it was doing here Icannot imagine. It was on the floor
of a straw skep, and the bees did not seem to mind its presence. One
of our commonest and largest species. This species has been identified
with I. niger, Leach, but Mr. Brélemann says that the latter name has
been so often used and misused that until Leach’s types are examined it is
impossible to know what species is meant by his name. I have, therefore,
used C. Koch’s name which appears to be accepted for this species on
the Continent.
Poyntzpass, Co. Armagh.
1913. SELBIE.—New Records of Trish Myriapods. 131
NEW RECORDS OF IRISH MYRIAPODS.
BY C. M. SELBIE,. B.SC.
In a recent paper on the Myriapods of Clare Island!
there was published, in addition to the list of species found
on the island, a summary of all the records of Irish species
contained in earlier papers on this group.
In the National Museum there is a considerable amount
of myriapod material from various parts of Ireland, and
I have examined this, and give here the names of the
species identified, and the localities from which they came.
The Clare Island paper then, together with this list,
gives a complete summary of Irish Myriapod records as
at present known. The list contains the names of two
species new to Ireland, Lithobius crassipes, Koch,? and
Polydesmus denticulatus, Koch, and additional localities
for a third, Polydesmus corvaceus, Porat, which has recently
been recorded from Ireland for the first time—from Co. Car-
low.®
The records are still far too few to allow of any genera-
lisation as to the distribution of the species. It is especially
desirable that more specimens should be collected from
the inland counties. It will be noticed that practically
all the records published are from counties on or near
the coast. Hardly a single specimen has been taken in
the central plain, and the following counties are unrepre-
sented by records:—Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford,
Queen’s County, Tipperary, Limerick. Several others
such as Clare, Kilkenny, King’s County, Kildare, West-
meath have only one or two records.
The counties whose Myriapod fauna is fairly well known
are the following :—Antrim, Down, Dublin, Wicklow,
Cork, Kerry, Galway, Derry, and Armagh, nearly all on
lL Rev. W. F. Johnson, Proc. Roy. Ivish Acad., vol, xxxi., Clare Island
Survey, part 33.
2See, however, Rev. W. F. Johnson’s list, p. 129, of this number.
8A, Randall Jackson, ‘‘On some Arthropods observed in 1911 and
1912.” The Natuvalist, March, 1913.
132 The Irish Naturalis. July,
J
the coast, and all more or less mountainous. It would be
interesting to compare the fauna of these districts with
that of the low-lying central plain.
The initials given after the localities refer to the col-
lectors :—
D.R.P.-B. .. D. R. Pack-Beresford.
GEC. .. Prot. G. H. Carpenter.
ALB.B,. st. | Mrs.' Foster:
N.H.F. 5 ot Weeks Stet.
JN... a» J fs JIN. Halbert.
A.W.S. co Aa W. steltex.
NES. JJ UNS EF. Stephens.
Ribs: 2 Fi Picsthari.
R.W. sii) (aks, SVEIGHL
CHILOPODA.
LITHOBIIDAE.
Lithobius forficatus, Linn¢é.—Armagh, W.J. Cavan, N.H.F. Cork
(Glandore, R.F.S., Crookhaven). Donegal (Lough Sait Mountain, Tory
Island). Down (Corry’s Glen, N.H.F.; Hillsborough N.H.F.)., Dublin
(Tallaght, C.M.S.). Kerry (Carrantuohill). Londonderry (Banagher,
N.H.F.). Meath (Slane, R.W.). Sligo (Church Island, Lough Gill).
Wicklow (Greystones).
L. variegatus, Leach.—Antrim (Glenarm, R.W.; Kinbane, R.W.;
Finvoy, R.W.). Carlow (Borris, R.F.S.). Cork (Glandore). Derry
(Banagher, N.H.F.; Benevenagh, N.H.F.). Donegal (Lough Salt Mountain,
Kilmacrenan, R.W.). Dublin (Dalkey Island). Kerry (Glencar, Mac-
gillicuddy’s Reeks, Great Blasket, A.W.S.). Kilkenny. Monaghan
(Lord Rossmore’s demesne, N.H.F.). Wexford (Courtown, R.F.S.).
Wicklow (Bray, Ovoca, Poulaphouca).
L. melanops, Newport.—Antrim (Kinbane, R.W.; Randallstown, R.W.).
Derry (Benevenagh, N.H.F.; Dungiven, R.W.). Donegal (Gweedore,
R.W.). Down (Hillsborough, N.H.F.). Dublin (Tallaght, C.M.S.).
Galway (Roundstone). Kerry (Devil's Punch Bowl, Macgillicuddy’s
Reeks).
L. crassipes, Koch.—New to Ireland. I have received two specimens
—one male and one female—collected by Mr. N. H. Foster at Dungiven,
in Derry, and more recently Mr. R. Welch has also taken a single female
at Murlough Bay, Antrim.
It may easily be mistaken in the field for the young of L. jiane
which it resembles in colour, and it is still more likely to be confused with
L. melanops. On closer examination it is at once separable from L.
forficatus by the arrangement of the teeth on the front of the basal part
of the maxillary feet. There are only two teeth on each side, while
forficatus has five or six. ;
From L. .melanops, on the other hand, it is distinguished by the complete
absence of strongly produced posterior angles on any of the dorsal plates,
1913. SELBIE.—WVew Records of Irish Myriapods. . 133
and by the shortness of the antennae and anal legs. Number of antennal
joints, 20 (occasionally 19 or 21); number in L. melanops, 34-41.7
This species ranges over practically the whole of Europe from Scandi-
navia to southern Austria or Spain, and is also found in Algeria. It
is known from England.
SCOLOPENDRIDAE.
Cryptops hortensis, Leach.—Cork (Glandore, R.F.S.). Kerry (Great
Blasket, A.W.S.).
GEOPHILIDAE.
Geophilus carpophagus, Leach.—Antrim (Fair Head, R.W.; Murlough
Bay, R.W.; Larne, Torr Head, R.W.). Derry (Banagher, N.H.F.)
Down (Newcastle, R.F.S.).
G. longicornis, Leach.—Carlow (Borris, R.F.S.) Cavan (Farnham
Woods, R.W.). Cork (Glandore, R.F.S.). Kerry (Kenmare). Louth
(Collon, R.W.). Monaghan (Lord Rossmore’s demesne, N.H.F.).
G. proximus, Koch.—Derry (Dungiven, N.H.F.). Down (Hillsborough,
N.H.F.) Dublin (Ballsbridge, C.M.S.). Monaghan (Lord Rossmore’s
demesne, N.H.F.).
Linotaenia crassipes, Koch.—Kerry (Kenmare). Kildare (Gormans-
town).
L. maritima, Leach.—Donegal (Dunfanaghy, R.W., Horn Head, Crat-
lagh, J.N.H.). Dublin (Howth). Kerry (Kenmare).
Schendyla nemorensis, Koch.—Derry (Banagher, N.H.F.) Wicklow,
(Lough Bray, C.M.S.).
Stigmatogaster subterraneous, Leach.— Cork. Dublin (Lambay),
Limerick (Kilfinane). Meath (Kells, R.W.),.
DIPLOPODA.
POLYXENIDAE,
Polyxenus lagurus, Linné.—Dublin (Howth, C.M.S.; Portrane, G.H.C.).
GLOMERIDAE.
Glomeris marginata, Villers.—Antrim (Torr Head, R.W.; Kinbane,
ER W.). Derry (Banagher, N H.F.; Dungiven, N.H.F.; Benevenagh,
N.H.F.). Donegal (Gweedore, R.W. ; Cratlagh, J.N.H.). Down (Corry’s
Glen, N.H.F.). Monaghan (Lord Rossmore’s demesne, N.H.F.). Wex-
ford (Courtown, R.F.S.). Wicklow (Greystones).
POLYDESMIDAE.
Brachydesmus superus. Latzel. Cavan (Farnham Woods, R.W.)
Derry (Benevenagh, N.H.F.). Galway (Ballynahinch, J.N.H.).
Polydesmus complanatus, Linné.—Derry (Banagher, N.H.F. ; Dungiven,
N.H.F.). Waterford (Dromana House).
P. gallicus, Latzel.—Antrim (Randalstown, R.W.) Carlow (Borris,
R.F.S.). Kerry (Kenmare). Wicklow (Parknashaw).
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134 The Lrish Naturalist. July,
P. denticulatus, Koch.—New to Ireland. The first specimen was
taken by Dr. Schartt at Lough Bray, Wicklow, in 1912, and more recently
I have received a specimen from Slane, in Meath, and one from Bene-
venagh, in Derry, both taken by Mr. Foster.
While examining the specimen from Slane I noticed what looked like
a large eye on the right hand side of the head. Just in front of and below
the base of the antenna there was a large black area, roughly triangular
in shape. It bore an extremely striking resemblance to the ordinary
millipede eye until viewed under a lens, when it was seen that this triangle
was not made up of a number of separate ocelli closely arranged in rows,
but was a continuous pigmented surface.
On the left hand side there was no trace of a pigmented area.
No species of Polydesmus has even rudimentary eyes, and they are
also wanting in the other genera belonging to the family Polydesmidae.
I have had transverse sections made of the head of the specimen with
the object of discovering whether any traces of eye-structure might be
present beneath the surface. The animal had lain in alcohol for some
time, and had become brittle so that the sections could not be cut as
thin as was desirable. They show clearly, however, that the pigment
is not confined to the surface only, but is present to a very considerable
depth. No trace could be detected, however, of anything in the nature
of separate ocelli, possibly because of the thickness of the sections. There
was no trace of pigment on the left side. .
So far as I know this is the only case on record of a Polydesmus pos-
sessing even a rudimentary eye.
P. coriaceus, Porat.—This species has recently been recorded for the
first time from Ireland by Dr. A. Randall Jackson, who received specimens
taken by Mr. D. R. Pack-Beresford in Co. Carlow.
I have recently received a specimen from Mr. R. Welch, who took
it at Slane, in Meath. In the Museum I have also found an unnamed
specimen taken by Dr. Scharff at Glandore, Cork, in 1898.
CHORDEUMIDAE.
Atractosoma polydesmoides, Leach.—Derry (Banagher, N.H.F.; Dun-
given, R.W.). Down (Corry’s Glen, N.H.F.). Monaghan (Lord Ross-
more’s demesne, N.H.F.).
Craspedosoma Rawlinsii, Leach.—Armagh. Cork (Doneraile Cave, R. J.
Ussher). Derry (Banagher, N.H.F.). Dublin (Howth, N.E.S.). W'cklow.
TULIDAE.
Blaniulus venustus, Meinert.—Antrim (Randalstown, R.W.). Derry
(Banagher, N.H.F.).
B. fuscus, Am. Stein.—Antrim (Kinbane, R.W.). Donegal (Gweedore,
R.W.; Cratlagh, J.N.H.). Dublin (Tallaght, C.M.S.). Kerry (Glencar).
Wicklow (Lough Bray, C.M.S.).
B. guttulatus, Bosc.—-Cork (G.H.C.). Derry (Benevenagh, N.H.F.).
Dublin (Blackrock, Shankill and Rathfarnham, G.H.C.). Mayo (G.H.C.).
Sligo (Ballysodare). Wexford (Fethard, G.H.C.).
1913. SELBIE.—New Records of Lrish Myriapods. 135
[ulus luseus, Meinert. (= by’tannicus Verhoeff).—Carlow (Borris, R.W.S.)
Cavan (Farnham Woods, R.W.). Cork (Glandore, R.F.S.). Donegal
(Tory Island). Fermanagh. . Kerry (Glencar). Kilkenny. Tyrone
(Baronscourt, R.W.).
I, punctatus, Leach.—Antrim (Ballycastle, Randalstown, R.W.). Cavan
(Farnham Woods, R.W.). Derry (Banagher and Dungiven, N.H.I.).
Donegal (Gweedore, R.W.; Cratlagh, J.N.H.).. Down (Corry’s Glen,
N.H.F.).. Dublin (Tallaght, C.M.S.; Howth, J.N.H.). Galway (Tuam).
iXerry (Kenmare). Louth (Drogheda, R.W.).° Wicklow (Ovoca, Devil's
Glen).
I. fallax, Meinert.—Antrim (Randalstown and Kinbane, R.W.).
Derry (Dungiven, N.H.F.). Donegal (Gweedore, R.W.). Down (Hills-
borough and Corry’s Glen, N.H.F.). Kerry (Kenmare, J.N.H.;
Cromaglaun, Dingle). Sligo (Ballysodare). Tyrone (Baronscourt, R.W.).
I. ligulifer, Latzel.—Antrim (Torr Head, R.W.). Armagh. Derry
(Banagher, N.H.F.; Dungiven, N.H.F.). Wicklow (Greystones, N.E.S.).
I. sabulosus, Linné.—Carlow (Fenagh, D.R.P.-B.). Derry (Toome).
King’s Co. (Tullamore). Wicklow (Bray).
I. niger, Leach.—Antrim (Kinbane and Torr Head, R.W.; Kan-
dalstown and Murlough Bay, R.W.; Ballycastle). Cavan (Farnham
Woods, R.W.). Derry (Banagher, N.H.F.; Dungiven and _ Bene-
everagh, N.H.F,). Down (Hillsborough, N.H.F.). Louth (Drogheda,
R.W.). Meath (Slane, R.W.). Tyrone (Baronscourt, A.B.F.). Wexford
(Co. rtown, R.F.S.). Wicklow (Ovoca),
I. teutonicus, Pocock.—Kerry (Great Blasket, A.W.S.), young specimen.
National Museum, Dublin.
IRISH SOCIETIES.
ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Recent gifts include a Capuchin Monkey from Mr. R. H. Franklin,
an Irish Stoat from Mr. H. Cogan, a large Goat from Dr. R. F. Scharff,
a pied Blackbird from Mr. R. Cody, seven African Finches from Mrs
Cullinan, three Pigeons from Miss Bradshaw, a Kestrel from Mr. J.
C. MacLean, and an Amazon Parrot from Mr. R. H. Franklin. A pair
of Patas Monkeys, a male Ocelot, a young Sea Lion, four Malabar Squirrels,
and a pair of White-headed Mannikins have been bought for the collec-
tions. From the Toronto Zoological Gardens, Canada, three Beavers
have been received in exchange for a pair of Lion-cubs. The Beavers
have been placed in the small rock-enclosure to the right of the sea-lion
pond, where they may be seen disporting themselves in the water, or
nibbling at the tree-trunks, with which they have been provided.
136 The Irish Natur list. July,
DUBLIN MICROSCOPICAL CLUB.
May 14.—The Club met at Leinster House. A. R. NicHors in the Chair.
Prof. G. H. CARPENTER showed the hypopharynx and maxillulae
of an undetermined Helodine larva, discovered by Mr. H. Scott, in the
West Indies, living in the water that accumulates between the leaf-bases
of Bromeliaceous plants. The structures resemble those of the larva
of an Irish species of Helodes lately exhibited before the Club, but show
some interesting differences. An account with figures will be published
in the forthcoming Report of the second International Entomological
Congress (Oxford, 1912).
Dr. G. H. PETHYBRIDGE exhibited the seeds of Tyifolium angulatum
W. et Kit., and T. parviflorum, Ehr., two species of clover which grow
wild in the alkaline soil of certain parts of Hungary. The seeds of the
former are strikingly similar to those of Alsike Clover, while those of the
latter resemble seeds of White Clover. On the Continent these seeds have
occasionally been offered for sale for agricultural purposes, but the plants
have little or no agricultural value, except for soils of the nature indicated
where other clovers will not grow. Seeds of T. angulatum have not
yet been found in samples of clover seed examined at the Department’s
Seed Testing Station, but on two or three occasions seeds of T. parviflorum
have been found in samples of White Clover, although scarcely in sufficient
quantity as to suggest that they were being used deliberately as an adul-
terant. Botanists on the look-out for aliens might possibly find T.
parviflovrum in co. Wexford. A full account of these seeds will be found
in Die landw. Versuchs-Stationen, Bd. 81, 1913, p. 433.
CORK NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB.
FEBRUARY 27.—-R. J. UssHER delivered a lecture (illustrated) on
“Our Native Birds, and their Breeding Habits.”’ in the Assembly Rooms,
to a very large audience. The meeting was held under the joint auspices
of the Literary and Scientific Society and the Field Club.
APRIL 14.—The Club met at University College, W. B. Lacy in the
Chair. Professor H. A. CUMMINS, c.M.G., delivered a lecture (illustrated)
on ‘‘ Maritime Plant Associations.’’ At the close of the lecture, Prof.
Cummins appealed to the members to forward specimens of seaweeds,
more especially any collected between Cork Harbour and Bantry Bay, to
the College for identification. Prof. Swain also invited members interested
in geology or geography to assist in the preparation of a Glacial map of
Cork and Kerry.
APRIL 28.—The twenty-first Annual General Meeting was held at
15, South Mall, Prof. Swain (President) in the Chair. The Hon. Secretary
(Jas. Noonan) and Hon. Treasurer (W. B. Lacy) read their Reports, which
were adopted. A resolution was passed, tendering the warmest con-
gratulations of the Cork Club to the Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club on
the occasion of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the latter
society’s foundation. Miss B. Duke, B.sc., and Miss Dobbin were elected
Tit 2 tw a em ta a:
1913. Trish Societies. 137
members of the Club. ‘The outgoing Officers and Committee were re-
elected, M. Holland being added to the Committee.
APRIL 30.—GEOLOGICAL EXCURSION.—A visit was paid to the Glacial
deposits on the south side of the College Road, and to the limestone
quarries, north and south of Dennehy’s Cross. Boulder-clay, glacial
markings, &c., were pointed out, and bedding, cleavage, and jointing
explained. A visit was subsequently paid to the seismograph at Univer-
sity College. Professor Swain acted as conductor.
May 28.—Excursion To Fota.—A party of 30 visited Lord Barry-
more’s demesne, Fota Island, Queenstown. The members were met by
Mr. Besswick, who conducted them through the grounds—the ponds
also with their variety of aquatic plants, the fernery, the bamboo garden,
and the “‘ Italian garden”’ being shown. Many rare exotic plants flourish
at Fota, the collection of trees of various species being particularly fine.
Squirrels were in evidence during the visit, and it was pointed out that
they have increased considerably in the demesne during recent years,
REVIEW.
THE LITERATURE OF ASCIDIANS.
A Bibliography of the Tunicata, 1469-1810. By JoHN MHopKINsoN.
London: Ray Society, 1913. xili. + 288 pp. Price 15s. net.
Whilst engaged in the arduous task of editing Alder and Hancock’s
‘“ British Tunicata,’” Mr. Hopkinson found it necessary to cempile a
Bibliography of works dealing with this neglected section of the British
marine fauna. It was his intention to issue it as a supplement to the third
volume of the “ British Tunicata,’’ but in the year 1906, acting on the
advice of Canon Norman, he decided to include all works treating of the
Tunicata, down to the end of the year 1910. The result is now issued as a
separate work. It will be a valuable aid to students of the Tunicata,
and in a lesser degree to all marine zoologists. The references to the
scanty literature dealing with Irish Tunicata seem to be complete. Every
possible reference to a Tunicate seems to have been included, from Aristotle
to Herdman, and from obscure text-books of zoology to Victoria County
Histories. Nevertheless, one receives the impression that this group of
animals, so interesting and significant to the evolutionist, has notreceived
its proper share of attention in comparison with other groups. This is
undoubtedly due to the difficulties inherent to the systematic study of the
Tunicata, and to their lack of direct economic interest.
RS.
138 The Irish Naturalist. July,
SOME IRISH ICHNEUMONIDAE AND BRACONIDAE.
BY REV. W. F. JOHNSON, M.A., F.E.S.
I have continued to pick up such Ichneumon-flies as I
met with since my last paper’, and the following list shows
the results. _ At Coolmore I obtained my specimens almost
without exception at flowers of the Wild Carrot, and
mostly caught them with my fingers; by going about it
quietly I was often able to take several from the same
umbel. These captures were effected between August
20th and September 2oth, 1912.
At Poyntzpass I took a good many on the roadside
between my house and Poyntzpass village; on a sunny
morning there were sure to be some Ichneumon-flies
busy at flowers or flitting about the hedge looking for their
prey. In several cases it will be seen that I obtained
specimens in moss; these were hibernating,as do a number of
these insects. Those from Cave Hill and Belfast were
taken by my late lamented friend Mr. H. Lamont Orr.
I have to thank Mr. Claude Morley for kind help with
the determination of many of these insects, especially
among the Ophioninae. He hopes to bring out the volume
of his work on British Ichneumons, dealing with this
section before the end of this year.
ICHNEUMONIDAE
ICHNEUMONINAE.
Coelichneumon leucocerus, Grav.—Poyntzpass, in August:
C. derasus, Wesm.—Killysavin, Co. Down, in May.
Melanichneumon erythraeus, Grav.—Poyntzpass, in July, in one of my
fields, a single specimen. It is very rare in England. The onlv
records Mr. Morley gives are from London and Plymouth.
Bari¢hneumon bilunulatus, Grav —Poyntzpass, in February, under loose
bark on Pinus sylvestris.
Ichneumon xanthorius, Forst.—Carlingford, in July.
I. latrator, Fab.—Coolmore, in August and September.
var. means, Grav.—Coolmore, in September.
1 Ivish Naturalist, vol. xvi., 1907.
1913. JOHNSON.— Some Lrish Ichneumonidae and Braconidae. 139
1. subquadratus, [homs.—Poyntzpass, in August, and in moss in November.
I. melanotis, Holmgr.—Poyntzpass, in moss, in November.
I. bucculentus, Wesm.—Coolmore, Poyntzpass, and at Ballyworkan, near
Portadown, in July and August.
I, suspiciosus, Wesm.—Coolmore, in September. 2
I. extensorius, Linné.—Coolmore, in August and September.
I. albiger, Wesm.—Poyntzpass, in moss, in November and December.
J, caloscelis, Wesm.—Coolmore, in September, and at Newcastle, Co.
Down, in August.
I, insidiosus, Wesm.—Coolmore, in August.
Amblyteles palliatorius, Grav.—Cave Hill Road, in August.
Eurylabus tristis, Grav.—Bellast.
Platylabus pedatorius, Fab.—Coo]more, in September.
P. orbitalis, Grav.—Coolmore, in September.
Phaeogenes suspicax, Wesm.—Poyntzpass, in moss, in January.
P, fulvitarsis, Wesm.—Poyntzpass, in moss, in January.
Hemichneumon elongatus, Ratz.—Coolmore, in September.
Alomyia debellator, Fab., var. nigra, Grav.—Poyntzpass, in May and
July, on flowers.at roadside,
CRYPTINAE.
Microcryptus perspicillator, Grav.—Coolmore, in August.
M. graminicola, Grav.—Coolmore, in August.
M. bifrons, Gmel.—Poyntzpass, in March, in moss.
M. abdominator, Grav.—Poyntzpass, in June.
M. brachypterus, Grav.—Cave Hill, near Belfast.
M. micropterus, Grav.—Coolmore, in September.
Acanthoeryptus quadrispinosus, Grav.—Poyntzpass, in May, taken while
running along the edge of a manure pit.
Phygadeuon rufulus, Gmel.—Poyntzpass. It seems to be rare in England.
P. speculator, Grav.—Coolmore, in August.
P. leucostigma, Grav.—Coolmore, in August.
P. hereynicus, Grav.—Coolmore, in August.
Stilpnus payoniae, Scop.—Poyntzpass, in June.
Atractodes vestalis, Hal.—Coolmore, in September.
Mesostenus transfuga, Grav.—Coolmore, in September, a female. Mr.
Morley writes: “‘ Extremely rare in Britain. I have one male
from the Isle of Wight, and one female from Plymouth.’ It occurs
throughout Europe.
Spilocryptus migrator, Fab., var brevipennis, Desv.—Rossbeigh, Co. Kerry,
in August, taken by L. H. B. Wyse.
Cryptus sponsor, Fab.—Cave Hill, near Belfast. There do not appear to
be any recent records of its occurrence in Great Britain.
C. minator, Grav.—Poyntzpass, in July, in one of my fields.
140 The Lrish Naturalist. July,
PIMPLINAE.
Perithous divinator, Rossi.—Poyntzpass, in May. It is usually bred from
bramble stems. I took it on the wing.
Pimpla brevicornis, Grav.—Coolmore, in September.
P. detrita, Holmgr.—Poyntzpass, in October, on the wing.
P. examinator, Fab.—Poyntzpass, in May, among herbage on roadside.
P. turionellae, Linné.—Coolmore, in September ; Poyntzpass, in August.
Glypta elongata, Holmgr.—Coolmore, in September.
G. monocerus, Grav.—Coolmore, in September. Neither this nor the
preceding species seems to be common, and all the records are from
the south of England.
G. ceratitis, Grav.—Poyntzpass, in August.
G. genalis, M6ll.—Coolmore, in September. Apparently very rare.
G. parvicaudata, Bridg.—Coolmore, in September. Rare. Mr. Morley
(‘‘ British _Ichneumons,” vol. iii., p. 162), says that a pair were bred
out of Hypsipetes yuberata from Stornoway, in May, and that he
knows of two other specimens also bred. Mine, which are two
females, were taken on flowers of Wild Carrot.
G. lugubrina, Holmgr.—Coolmore, in August.
Lissonota bellator, Grav.—Coolmore, in August and September.
L. variipes, Desv.—Coolmore, in August and September. Both species
were abundant on flowers of Wild Carrot.
L. sulphurifera, Grav.—Coolmore, in August and September.
L. femorata, Holmgr.—Poyntzpass, in July.
L. transversa, Bridg.—Coolmore, in August.
Lampronota caligata, Grav.—Newcastle, in August, on sandhills.
TRYPHONINAE.
Metopius dentatus, Fab.—Coolmore, in September, flying over sallows.
Though widely distributed, it is rare in Great Britain.
Homocidus obscuripes, Holmgr.—Belfast, in June.
H. pectoratorius, Grav.—Poyntzpass, in June, flying among herbage by
roadside.
H. dimidiatus, Schr.—Poyntzpass, in May.
Mesoleius semicaligatus, Grav.—Coolmore, in August and September.
M. aulicus, Grav.—Poyntzpass, in May.
Tryphon elongator, Fab.—Coolmore, in August and September;
T. vulgaris, Holmgr.—Coolmore, in September.
T. brunniventris, Grav.—Coolmore, in September.
Catoglyptus fortipes, Grav.—Carlingford, in May.
Perlissus filicornis, Grav.—Coolmore, in August; Rosses Point, Co. Sligo,
in June.
P. rufoniger, Grav.—Coolmore, in September ; Poyntzpass, in July.
P. orbitalis, Grav.—Poyntzpass, in May.
P, minutus, Bridg.—Carlingford, in May. It seems to be rare, for the
only record given by Mr. Morley is from Surrey.
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OPHIONINAE.
Ophion luteum, Grav.—Coolmore, in September, flying to lamp light.
Campoplexus bucculentus, Holmgr.—Newcastle, in August.
Casinaria pallidipes, Brisch.—Poyntzpass, in June.
Limnerium albidum, Thoms.—Belfast and Cave Hill, in June.
Echphoropsis viennensis, Grav.—Coolmore, in September, and Carlingford,
in May.
Omorga faunus, Grav.—Poyntzpass, in September; Ballyworkan, in
July ; Coolmore, in August and September.
0. cursitans, Holmgr.—Poyntzpass, in June.
O. mutabilis, Holmgr.—Poyntzpass.
O. ensator, Grav.—Poyntzpass, in June; Belfast, in August.
Oleseicampa longipes, Mill.—Poyntzpass, in June.
Meloboris rufiventris, Grav.—Lough Shark, Co. Down, in August.
M. ecrassicornis, Grav.—Poyntzpass, in June; Newcastle, Co. Down, in
August.
Augitia claripennis, Thoms.—Cave Hill, Belfast.
A. vestigialis, Ratz.—Poyntzpass, in June; Coolmore, in September.
A, tibialis, Grav.—Poyntzpass, in June.
A. majalis, Grav.—Poyntzpass.
Mesochorus vitticoliis, Holmgr.—Poyntzpass, in June.
Pectenella latungula, Thoms.—Poyntzpass, in May and June.
BRACONIDAE.
Rhogas reticulator, Nees.—Poyntzpass, in July.
Microgaster globatus, Nees.—Coolmore, in August and September.
Macrocentrus infirmus, Nees.—Coolmore, in August.
Alysia mandueator, Panz.—Coolmore, in August.
Apanteles vanessae, Keinh.—Newcastle, Co. Down, bred from larvae of
Pyrameis cardut, taken on the sandhills in August.
Poyntzpass, Co. Armagh.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Dr. C. J. Patten and Bird Migration.
At the Royal Society’s conversazione at Burlington House, London,
in May, Prof. C. J. Patten, whose work is well-known to our readers,
exhibited a model and a series of photographs to illustrate his studies
at the Tuskar on the migration of birds. We congratulate Prof. Patten
on his recent election as President of the Sheffield Naturalists’ Field Club.
142 The Lrish Naturalist. ~ July
NOTES.
BOTANY. ‘
The British Ecological Society.
The British Vegetation Committee, whose doings we have recorded
from time to time, was formally dissolved on 12th April, and at a general
meeting held immediately afterwards at University College, London,
the British Ecological Society was founded. The Society will carry on
the work of the Committee on a wider basis. One of its principal ac-
tivities will be the issue of the Journal of Ecology, of which the first number
has since been published. The Society will meet each April in London,
and each autumn in the provinces, with such other meetings as may be
arranged. The first President is Mr. A. G. Tansley, Botany School,
Cambridge, and the Secretary, Dr. F. Cavers, Goldsmiths’ College, London,
5.5.
The Hiberno-Lusitanian Problem.
To Knowledge for June, Mr. G. W. Bulman contributes an article in
which he defends the position that the Lusitanian plants in the Irish flora
are portion of a pre-glacial flora. After suggesting that the absence
of these particular species in England may be due to a former barrier in
that direction he quotes the case of Greenland, where an ample phanero-
gamic flora now flourishes, which would appear to have survived the glacial
period there. He points out that the Lusitanian plants in our flora are
mostly not delicate species, and comments on the facts that fossilevidence
of the persistence of temperate plants through the Ice Age is obscured by
the fact that any deposits containing rema‘ns of such species are 7pso
facto set down as inter-glacial.
Irish Seaweeds.
Among the many results of the Clare Island Survey, the importance
of an accurate and detailed knowledge of the distribution of plants and
animals has been repeatedly emphasized.
With regard to the marine algae, though some areas in Ireland have
been well worked, others have been almost untouched, and in view of the
publication of a revised list of this group I should like to appeal to Irish
naturalists for help in filling up the gaps. The peculiar interest of the
flora makes a knowledge of detailed distribution of additional impor-
tance. The counties particularly in need of investigation are Donegal,
Wexford, and Waterford. It is concerning these that data are most
urgently required, but assistance as to any county will be welcome,
1913. Notes. 143
Help may be afforded in various ways. Old collections, if carefully
localized, should be sent for examination. Botanists visiting the districts
in question might examine the algal flora, and if unable to spare time in
critical study could do valuable service by sending samples or by making
collections. Naturalists of any class could carry out the same work.
The sympathy of friends, or even children, should also be enlisted,
especially those who reside at the seaside. Common species should not
be neglected, as the precise range of certain northern and southern species
is not yet determined.
Where time does not permit of drying, fresh material may be sent firmly
packed in a tin box. It is hardly necessary to add that I should be glad
to reply to enquiries or to give further information.
A. DD: (Catres:
The Herbarium, Kew, Surrey.
Leucojum aestivum in South Tipperary,
While walking, on May 18th, along the bank of the Suir, near Tur-
tullagh, about two miles from Thurles, I discovered on the extreme point
of an island-marsh a large bed and several scattered plants of Leucojzum
aestivum in full bloom, associated with Caltha palustris, Rumex Hydro-
lapathum, Spargantum vamosum, Typha latifolia, Scirpus lacustris, Carex
yiparia, Phalayis arundinacea, and other marsh and water plants. The
spot is inaccessible, except when the river is very low, and in wet seasons
is completely under water, thus agreeing in character with the habitats
of this species in all its inland native stations on the Continent, and in
England and Ireland. It occurs on tributaries of the same river about
thirty-five and forty-five miles further south near Fiddown and Waterford,
and, taking all the circumstances into consideration, I see no reason to
doubt its being indigenous in this locality.
R. .A: PRIELIPS:
Cork.
ZOOLOGY.
Golden Oriole in County Tyrone.
Mr. W. C. Wright records (British Birds, vol. vii., p. 16) the capture of a
female Golden Oriole, Oviolus galbula, at Coalisland, Co. Tyrone. Mr.
Henry Wilson, by whose dog the bird was caught (not found dead as
stated by Mr. Wright) informs me that it was one of a party of four which
were observed in the neighbourhood for a few days only in May. About
fifty Golden Orioles have been seen or taken in Ireland, almost all in
maritime counties, and this forms the first bird of this species from Co.
Tyrone.
NEVIN H. FOSTER,
Hillsborough, Co. Down.
144 The Irish Naturalist. July, 1913.
A Blackbird’s Note.
There is a note or call to be heard in our woods and hedges, a common
note of one of our commonest birds, yet I think few of our readers could
name its author. It is a sort of low whistle ; two parts whistle and one
part sigh, perhaps describes it fairly well; it lasts two or three seconds,
and is repeated at intervals of about the same duration, and often goes
on for several minutes. It has something of what Gilbert White calls
an “‘inward”’ quality, and is pitched in such a key that, like the squeak
of a bat, it is inaudible to many ears. It is highly ventriloquial, and
almost impossible to locate, as it comes from north, south, east, and west.
and far or near in bewildering succession, or seems to do so. It has
puzzled me for years. I could find nothing about it in books, so I con-
sulted some of our best field naturalists, but they could not name. the
author, and yet it is nothing more mysterious than the Common Black-
bird. Do many readers know this ?
G. H. PENTLAND.
Blackhall, Drogheda.
OBITUARY.
NATHANIEL H. ALCOCK.
It is with very deep regret that we record the loss of Professor N. H.
Alcock, M.D., D.sc., at the early age of 42 years. After graduating with
high honours at the University of Dublin, his native city, in 1896, he
studied in Germany, taught in the medical school at Manchester, and came
back to Trinity College as demonstrator in physiology in 1898. During
the succeeding years he served as Secretary of the Dublin Field Club,
and worked enthusiastically at the Irish Mammalia. His papers on the
‘‘ Natural History of Irish Bats,’’ published in this Magazine (vols. viii.,
x.), partly in collaboration with C. B. Moffat, gave promise of brilliant
zoological achievement. But in 1901, Alcock removed to London and
began to devote himself to physiological teaching and research, gaining
fame by his precise experimental work on the nervous system. Ife pub-
lished papers on the relations of the physical, chemical, and electrical
properties of nerves; on the variation of the velocity of nerve-impulses
in relation to stature ; and on the influence of anaesthetics on nervous
phenomena. In 1911 he was appointed to the chair of physiology at
McGill University, Montreal, an institution which has been a temporary
home for many brilliant men. Alcock’s numerous friends in England
and Ireland grieve to think that they cannot hope for his return in the
fullness of his powers to the scenes of his early successes.
G. H.C,
August, 1913. The [rish Naturalist. 145
THE WHALE-FISHERY IN IRELAND.
BY -R.! Fs) SCHARFS, ‘PH.D.,! FE.Si
In the Report of the eighty-second meeting of the British
Association, held at Dundee last year, appears a very
interesting series of notes on the Belmullet whaling station
in the west of Ireland. These notes form the report fur-
nished by Mr. Burfield to the Committee appointed by the
Association to investigate the biological problems incidental
to the Belmullet whaling station.!
In a short article published two years ago,” I indicated
the number and kind of whales captured in Ig10 by the
two Irish Whaling Companies. This was all the informa-
tion I could obtain at the time. The Blacksod Whaling
Company in 1910 caught 55 whales. In rgrI, no less than
63 individuals were procured. But Mr. Burfield supplies
us with many other noteworthy particulars.
COMMERCIAL.
The sixty-three whales yielded 2,200 barrels of oil, or
about 366 tons, the market price being about {23 per ton.
We note that most of the oil goes to Glasgow, where it is
apparently sold to manufacturers of explosives, who extract
glycerine from it. Between six and seven tons of whale-
bone were gathered from these whales. The price obtained
was £45 per ton. Much of the whalebone is sent to Paris,
where a considerable quantity appears to be used in the
manufacture of silk fabrics in the form of fine threads.
The residue from the meat and bones is dried and ground
down, the mixture being sold as guano. The ground meat
alone is exported to Norway for cattle food. Still further
by-products, such as glue, may be obtained in future from
this industry.
1 Repoyt Brit. Assoc. (Dundee, 1912), Ppp. 145-186, 1913.
Irish Naturalist, yol. xx., I91I, p. 141.
146 The Irish Naturalist. August,
BREEDING OF WHALES.
Only one young whale is born at a time, twins being
very rare. The young are born in the winter or early
spring, and are said. to be from a quarter to a third the
length of the mother.
SIZE AND COLOUR OF WHALES.
In a brief review of the whales, porpoises and dolphins
observed in Irish waters,' I endeavoured to give the sizes
of the specimens so far as they were known to me. But
the measurements, which were mostly extracted from
newspaper reports, were frequently doubtfully accurate,
while in many cases none were obtained at all. Hence,
we knew very little from actual observation of the size of
these creatures frequenting the Irish seas. Mr. Burfield
paid special attention to this subject.
The largest Irish whale is the Blue Whale (Balaenoptera
Sibbaldt). It was reported to me that in 1908 a specimen
was captured at Inishkea, measuring 88 feet, while Mr.
Burfield records one of 84 feet. All the Blue Whales seen
by Mr. Burfield were females.
Of the Common “ Finner,” as it is often called (Balaen-
optera musculus), a skeleton of which is suspended from
the ceiling in our Natural History Museum, few exact
measurements had been recorded. Mr. Burfield gives no
less than fifty-three. The largest specimen : measured,
which was a female, was 75 feet long, the largest male being
68 feet.
As it has been suggested by some authorities that the
Blue Whale and Common Finner might prove to be
varieties of the same species, Mr. Burfield’s remarks on
this point are noteworthy. In the colour and arrangement
of the grooves there is no great difference between the two,
but the dorsal fin of the Blue Whale is relatively much
smaller than that of the other. The whalebone of the
Blue Whale is thicker than that of the Finner, and of a
1 ScHARFF, R. F.: A list of the Irish Cetacea. Jvish Naturalist, vol. ix.,
pp- 83-91, 1900, ;
1913. ScHARFF.— Zhe Whale Fishery in Ireland. 147
uniform blue-black colour. In the Finner the colour is
variable, but the bristles are never black as in the Blue
Whale, being generally of a yellowish colour.
Foon.
As a rule, the two kinds of whale referred to live ex-
clusively on minute surface-forms of animal life. Occasion-
ally, however, the “‘ Finner,” at any rate, seems. to prefer
larger morsels. Mr. Burfield found that the stomachs of
three of the ‘‘ Finners”’ contained the remains of small
fish—apparently young herrings. All the other whales
examined were full of a small red crustacean, which is
known as “ krill’? among whale fishers.
PARASITES,
The parasitic Copepod Penella balaenoptera was found
on the body of some of the Finners, while Balaenophilus
wnisetus was noticed on the baleen of both whales. The
internal parasites Monostomum plicatum and_ Echino-
rhynchus brevicollis were identified.
There are also valuable observations in Mr. Burfield’s
report on the eye, on some problematic organs and on the
foetuses of Balaenoptera musculus and B. Sibbaldz.
National Museum, Dublin.
A FEW SPECIES OF NEMATODA FROM CO. DUBLIN.
BY T: R. HEWITT, A:R.C.SC.I. :
In addition to the notoriously destructive species Tylen-
chus devastatrix Kiihn, the following five species of Nema-
todes were found in Narcissus bulbs, grown at Glasnevin,
during the past winter :—Cephalobus striatus Bastian’;
Cephalobus longicaudatus Bitschli; Monohystera bulbifera
De Man; Dorylaimus longicaudatus, Biitschli'; and
Rhabdites aspera, Biitschli, Sviet LOUIE eS YLtEg
F. Be
148 The Irish Naturalist. August,
The bulbs were being examined for Tylenchus devastatrix,
the eelworm that causes a large amount of damage to
onions, Narcissus bulbs, oats, and clover. The other five
species are free-living Nematodes; they live mainly on
decaying vegetable matter, and can be found in the soil.
They were found in the damaged parts of the bulbs, living
on the material destroyed by the Tylenchus. They are
worth recording, as I can find no previous record of their
occurrence in Ireland in any literature to which I have
access.
Fig. 1, Cephalobus striatus, head ; fig. 2, tail (after De Man). Magnified.
A short description, distinguishing the main characters
of each species, is given below, but for a more detailed
description, those interested are referred to the memoirs
mentioned at the end of the paper.
Cephalobus striatus Bastian.—This is a small short worm,
rather stout in comparison to its length, about -55 mm.
long, with a very blunt tail end (fig. 2) ; the cuticle is striated
in some parts; the mouth has no dart, but there are a
number of thickenings in the walls of the gullet (see fig. I).
The vulva is about one-third of the body-length from the
the tail end ; they are rather sluggish worms, and may be
easily examined alive,
1913. Hewirr.—Nematoda from Co. Dublin. 149
Cephalobus longicaudatus Biitschli.—This worm is longer
than C. striatus, and the tail is long and pointed ; the tail
of the male is more suddenly constricted than that of the
female (see figs. 4 and 5). Both species have a large
oesophageal swelling in which there is a star-shaped kind
of chitinous ‘‘ mill.” Quite a number of both species were
found.
Fig. 3, Cephalobus longicaudatus, head ; fig. 4, tail of female; fig. 5,
tail of male (after De Man). Magnified.
Monohystera bulbifera De Man.—This is a very small
eelworm only about -33 mm. long, but very agile. It is
distinguished by the large oesophageal swelling, and the
structure of the head and tail (see figs. 6, 7, and 8). As is
shown in the figure, the tail is suddenly constricted to a
very small blunt point.
150 20. Thelrish Naturalise-. August,
~< Dorylaimus longicaudatus Biitschli—Only one ‘male
specimen of this species was found. This is a comparatively
large worm, being very much longer than any of the others.
The female is about 3:3 mm. long, and the male 2-8 mm.,
but very slender, its breadth being about 1/30 to 1/35 of
its length. The specimen was 2:8 mm. long; the mouth
has a very stout rather blunt dart which is slightly pro-
truded, and on the gullet there are thickenings in the wall
which appear like two little bars crossing it. The head
end also bears a few papille (fig. 11). The male has two
stout spicules (fig. 12), and the tail is very long and slender.
Fig. 6, Monohystera bulbifera, oesophageal bulb; fig. 7, tail; fig. 8.
head (after De Man). Magnified.
Rhabdites aspera Biitschli.—This species was found in
large numbers in some of the bulbs. It is about I mm.
long ; the male has two stout spicules and a large ribbed
bursa (see fig. 10); the tail is short and very slender. It
is distinguished from another species, Rhabditis longicau-
datus, which closely resembles it, by the thickenings in
the wall ot the gullet, and the shape of the spicules and
bursa ; R. longicaudatus has also a much longer and thicker
tail.
; Royal College of Science, Dublin.
REFERENCES.
O. ButscHut, Verhandl, Leop Carol Akademie, Xxxvil, 1873.
J. G. De Man, Die Nematoden der niederlandischen, Fauna, Leiden,
1884. : ike
1913. Hewitt.—Nematoda from Co. Dublin. 151
Fig. 9, Rhabditis aspera, head ; fig. 10, tail of male, showing bursa and
spicules. Magnified.
Uv
1 O-
big. 11, Dorylaimus longicaudatus, head; 12, tail region of male,
showing spicules, Magnified.
152 The Irish Naturalast. August,
SOME NOTES ON THE MIGRATION OF RICHARD-
SON’S AND POMATORHINE SKUAS.
BY ROBERT WARREN.
During my long residence at Moy View, Co. Sligo, on the
shore of the Moy estuary, I have been fortunate in discover-
ing two direct lines of migration followed every season.
One, that of Richardson’s and the Pomatorhine Skuas, at
the end of September and through October, on _ their
southern journey ; the second, that of the White Wagtails,
Motacilla alba, on their spring northern movement.
During calm fine weather, the skuas on their passage
keep at such a height as to be unseen or unnoticed, which
fact I verified one day in the last week of September, as I
was in the harvest field, with my workmen cutting oats,
when about 11 o'clock, chancing to look upward, I saw a
party of eleven dark-coloured birds passing away to the
south-west ; they were at such a height as to be barely
visible (not appearing larger than swallows), and only for
their long tails showing clear against the blue sky, I would
not have known them to be skuas.
I first observed skuas on the 8th of October, 1851. My
brother first noticed a little flock of six birds coming in
from the north, and passing over Bartragh at an immense
height, and crossing the country to thesouth-west. Later
in the day, as we were returning from Killala, I observed
another flock of eight coming in, and passing away in the
same course (to the south-west) as the first flock. At that
time the weather had been fine and calm, but shortly after
it changed to showery and stormy, which held on till the
15th, which was very stormy, blowing from the south-
west, on which morning my brother and I observed several
small ‘detached flocks of skuas coming from the north ;
these, after passing over the sandhills, lowered their flight,
and flew low over the estuary and along the river for more
than a mile, and then directed their course across the
country to the south-west. We remained until 12 o’clock
watching these small flocks coming in and passing away
1913. ° WARREN.—WNo/es on Afigration of Skuas. 153°
after their comrades, and during that time we counted
seventy-two birds. We were then called away to see to
some business matters, and when we returned, the flight,
had ceased for that day. Next morning, we were out early,
and found the flight was continued, and while we remained
on the watch—eight to eleven o’clock—over one hundred
birds passed. Having shot one, which was an immature
Richardson’s Skua, I concluded that the flight consisted
of that species. Many of the birds, by their mode of flight,
appeared tired, and some would occasionally pitch on the
calm water, as if to drink or rest, but after a few moments
would rise, and follow their companions. There were a
great many of the black sooty variety, while the greater
number appeared to be young birds of the year, exhibiting
short tails.
One singular fact regarding these skuas_ was, that
although there were plenty of small gulls on the sands,
none, so far as we saw, were molested by the passing skuas,
which steadily held on their course to the south-west.
However, this unusual sight of large numbers of skuas
on migration sharpened our faculties, and we afterwards
kept a good look-out for them; and the result was, that
during my brother’s residence on the island of Bartragh
from 1851 to 1854, he observed every October, during
stormy, broken weather, small flocks of skuas coming in,
and passing to the south-west. But he never observed
any birds passing in fine or calm weather, proving that
during fine weather they pass at such a height as to be
unseen or unnoticed.
After my brother had left Bartragh, there was no one
to watch the birds there. I had to take up the part of
watchman at Moy View, and my experience was like his ;
frequently during stormy weather in October, I observed
small flocks passing up the estuary, and away to the
south-west.
The next large flight of skuas seen on migration was
in 1862. For some days up to the 22nd of October, the
weather had been very bad, gale succeeding gale, accom-
panied by showers of hail and heavy rain; that, morning
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154 The Trish Naturalist. - August,
being very wet. I did not leave the house; but at eleven
o'clock, as I was standing at the parlour window, looking
down the estuary, and thinking it was in similar weather
in October, 1851, that the great flight of Richardson’s
Skuas appeared, I suddenly observed eleven dark-coloured
birds slowly flying up the estuary. That they were skuas
at once occurred to me, so taking my gun, I ran down to
the shore, too late for a shot at the passing birds; two or
three more flocks passed out of range, but a little flock of
five birds passing within shot, I was fortunate in obtaining
one of the lot, which proved to be a beautiful adult Poma-
torhine Skua. Several other flocks passed from time to
time without coming within range ; but just before leaving
the shore I obtained another fine adult. The flight for
that day ceased about three o’clock, and as far as I could
judge, all the birds coming under my observation were
Pomatorhines, their clumsy-looking tails easily identifying
them, showing in such strong contrast to the elegantly
pointed tails of the smaller species. | Next morning, the
23rd, I was out early, and as I expected, found the flight
continued. But, in consequence of the wind changing
to north-west, the skuas kept along the westerly (Mayo)
shore, on the opposite side of the estuary, and none during
that day’s flight came within range of my gun. I think
more birds passed in the second day’s flight, but owing to
the distance at which they passed from the Moy View
side of the estuary, I was unable to say decidedly to
which species they belonged. Although the gale still con-
tinued on the second day, all the skuas left the estuary,
with the exception of a few tired birds, which very probably
were unable to continue their course until after a day or
two’s rest on the sands.
Some weeks after, Dr. Neligan, of Tralee, wrote to the
Dublin Natural History Society, stating that on the 25th,
Tralee harbour was visited by a large flight of skuas, both
Pomatorhines and Richardson’s, and a pair of the Great
Skuas. While the gales lasted, they remained about the
harbour for several days, but all disappeared on the gales
subsiding.
1913. WARREN.—WNofes on Migration of Skuas. 155
I think one may safely infer that the skuas visiting Tralee
harbour, on the 25th, two days after the flight passed up
the Moy estuary, were one and the same flight. I may
suggest that the line of flight of these skuas after leaving the
Moy Estuary, was along the line of lakes (Loughs Conn,
Cullen, Mask, and Corrib) breaking out from the end of
Corrib on the Galway coast, and then along the coast to
Tralee harbour, but it is difficult to account for the two
days that elapsed from the time they left the Moy estuary
on the 23rd, till they appeared on the 25th in Tralee harbour.
The only way I think it possible to account for these two
days, is, that the birds on their way along the coast, finding
the gales too heavy for their progress, took refuge and
shelter within the mouth of the Shannon. Skuas have
been shot on Lough Conn during the month of October.
I saw a black variety of the Pomatorhine shot by Mr.
Garvey on that lake ; and on another occasion I was given
a bird in similar plumage shot at Killaser (inland) twenty
miles from the sea, but in the vicinity of Lough Conn.
Very few skuas are seen in the estuary on their return
north on the spring migration. Generally two or three,
or at most half a dozen birds appear in the estuary, with
the return of the terns early in May. They seldom remain
longer than a few days, taking toll from the terns while
they stay.
Ardnaree, Monkstown, Co. Cork.
IRISH SOCIETIES.
ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Recent gifts include a young female Indian Elephant from the Maharajah
of Mysore, eight Rabbits from Messrs. R. and H. Browne, eight Waxbills
irom Mr. Carden Buckley, an African Grey Parrot from Capt. O’Callaghan,
and a White Dove from Mr. S. P. Preston.
The young Elephant is about three years old, and has the head and
part of the back clothed with long black hairs; it has a pair of small
but evenly developed tusks. Its appearance offers an interesting contrast
to that of the seven-year old ‘‘ Roma’”’ of the same species.
156 The Lrish Naturalist. . August,
BELFAST NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB,
Fiftieth Anniversary.
The fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the Belfast Naturalists’
Field Club was celebrated by a series of meetings and excursions, com-
mencing on May 10, and lasting for a week. The opening function was
held at Queen’s University, Belfast, on the morning of May 10, when the
President (Rev. CANON LETT) received the delegates sent by sister societies.
The following societies and institutions were represented :— Birmingham
Natural History and Philosophical Society, Bournemouth Natural Science
Society, Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Dublin
Naturalists’ Field Club, Geological Survey of Ireland, Geological Society
of London, Geologists’ Association of London, Hertfordshire Natural
History and Field Club, Limerick Field Club, Liverpool Naturalists’ Field
Club, Malacological Society of London, North Stattordshire Naturalists’
Field Club, Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, Ray Society, Royal
College of Science for Ireland, Royal Dublin Society, Royal Irish Academy,
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Royal Zoological Society of
Ireland, and Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow. Congratulatory
messages were received from the Cardiff Naturalists and other societies,
The PRESIDENT extended a hearty welcome to the members and the
friends who had come to them from England and Scotland. Speakers
who would follow would tell them something about the doings of the
Society in the past and the present, and he hoped some of the speakers
might touch on the point of how to increase the influence and membership
of the society. He would ask Mr. Praeger, who was Vice-President
of their Society, and delegate from the Royal Irish Academy, to speak.
R. Li. PRAEGER gave an interesting address on the history and.doings
of the Club since its foundation fifty yearsago. The Club, he stated, owed
its origin to the old Department of Science and Art. It was in 1860
that the system of science classes, which some years previously had been
inaugurated, was extended to Ireland. During the winter 186c-61
the first course of lectures was given—a course of lectures in geology by
Professor Jukes. In the following year Professor Ralph Tate came to
continue the lectures. His classes were very well attended, and were >
highly successful. One effect of the lectures and the discussions held
in connection with them was a letter published in January, 1863. written
by W. T. Chew, advocating the establishment in Belfast of a field club
such as existed in a number of English towns. It was followed by two
other letters backing up the proposal, from Hugh Robinson and Samuel
Alexander Stewart, who for the whole of their lives were active and
earnest members of the Club. The three writers met in council, and
as a result a circular was sent round Tate’s class, followed by a public
meeting, at which a large number of members were enrolled, and the
Club commenced its activities. |The first excursion was held in April of the
same year, when a party of over 100 went to Larne and Islandmagee. The
geological bent imparted by the lectures was continued during the
earlier years, and had been continued practically ever since, geological
1913. Trish Societies. 157
traditions always being particularly strong in the Club. The Club thus
founded continued regularly to hold summer excursions and winter
meetings, and had done so continually for fifty years. Mr. Praeger then
gave an account of the Club’s work in various domains of science.
GEORGE DONALDsON, one of the original members, followed with a series
of reminiscences of the earlier days of the Club. WILLIAM GRaAy (an
ex-president), Sir CHARLES BRETT, and W. H. PaTTerson, all original
members, also spoke of the value of the Club’s work.
Brief addresses were given by the visiting delegates, congratulating
the Club on attaining its jubilee. These were Professor James Wilson,
delegate from the Royal Dublin Society ; Dr. A. Smith Woodward, senior
Secretary of the Geological Society of London ; Count Plunkett, President
of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, and Director of the National
Museum ; John R. B. Masefield, delegate from the North Staffordshire
Naturalists’ Field Club; Dr. George Neilson, President of the Royal
Philosophical Society of Glasgow ; Professor Grenville A. J. Cole, Dean
of the Royal College of Science for Ireland, and Director of the Geological
Survey of Ireland; Reginald A. Smith, British Museum; and R. M.
Barrington, delegate from the Dublin Naturalists’ Field Club, and the
Royal Zoological Society of Ireland. W. H. Phillips, one of the oldest
members of the Club, was presented with an address by the President
in recognition of his twenty-eight years’ services as honorary Treasurer.
Mr. Phillips returned thanks for the gift, which he said had taken him
very much by surprise.
On the motion of the President, seconded by Mr. F. A. Heron, a vote
of thanks was passed to the visiting delegates, and this was acknowledged
by W. H. Holt (Liverpool) and H. Overton (Birmingham).
In the afternoon a party of the Club members and visitors, conducted
by R. J. Welch, drove to the Giant’s Ring, a very large lis with a cromlech
in the centre, surmounting a hill a few miles south of the city. On
arrival the party examined the rath and cromlech, and Alec G. Wilson
gave a very interesting account of what was believed to be the origin
of the structure. Reginald Smith, of the British Museum, speaking
after Mr. Wilson, raised several very interesting points, and showed the
members of the Club some lines along which they might have
investigations carried out.
In the evening the delegates, members, and their friends attended a
conversazione in the Assembly Hall. Many interesting exhibits were
on view; these included :—Muiss Elizabeth Andrews, some rush crosses
and harvest knots. Major R. G. Berry, West African implements and other
objects, and the original drawings and MSS. by Edward Getty for pamphlet
on Tory Island. W. J. Fennell, examples of art metal work of ancient
Ireland and measured drawings of souterrains; Thomas Luney, early
Irish coins and medals. William Hayes, medals by Irish medallists.
Rev. Canon Lett, flint implements. J. W. Dunlop, ancient stone imple-
ments. Joseph Skillin, a recent find of flint implements ; implements from
the Bann, and unusual types ; a rare specimen showing marks of lashing for
hafting. William Gray, photographs illustrating the character and distri-
158 The Lrish Naturalist. August,
bution of prehistoric flint and stone implements. <A. R. and D. J. Hogg,
archeological photographs taken in Ulster. R. J. Welch, photographs
of “survivals’’ and other archeological objects. Rev. D. Stewart,
Muster Rolls of County Down, 1630; Belfast pamphlet encouraging
emigration, 1717 ; three pikes, 1798 ; and MS. Book ot Killyleagh Academy,
1710. W. J. Knowles, “ survivals’ of the Paleolithic age, including many
varieties of scrapers. N.Carrothers,local plants; R. Ll. Praeger,a display of
rare Irish plants, illustrated by photographs and fresh and dried specimens.
W. J. C. Tomlinson, typical plants of the basaltic escarpments of Antrim
and Derry, the British species of Spiranthes, Adoxa moschatellina, L., from
its only Irish station. A. W. Stelfox, some Irish Saxifrages; W. E.
Hart, specimens of Morchella conica from Culdaff, East Donegal ; Miss M.
D. Mitchell, a few local Myxomycetes. W. H. Phillips, fern fronds.
Nevin H. Foster, varieties of Athyrium Filix-foemina raised from spores.
Robert Bell, collection of Upper Cretaceous fossils from Londonderry
and Antrim; Miss M. K. Andrews, specimens of the orbicular granite
of Mullaghderg, County Donegal; Charles Bulla, a fossil fish from Irish
Carboniferous rocks. James Orr, local Liassic fossils. Joseph Wright,
Pleistocene Foraminifera. Dr. A. R. Dwerryhouse, topographical models
of the Belfast district, a core from the boring in the Triassic conglomerate
at Stranmillis, and minerals from the Mourne granites. R. Ji... Welch;
photographs illustrating local geology. J. Wiltrid Jackson, fossil verte-
brata and mollusca from Dog’s Hole Cave, Lancashire: L. Mueller,
minerals, zeolites, and Cretaceous fossils from Cave Hill. Dr. R.. F.
Scharff, remains of mammoth, hyaena, reindeer, and other animals from
the bone-cave at Doneraile, county Cork. George Donaldson, local
lepidoptera and marine mollusca. N. H. Foster, maps showing the recorded
distribution of woodlice in Ireland. Joseph Maxwell, microscopic pond-
life, including living and mounted examples of Volvox, rotifers, and
entomostraca. R. H. Whitehouse, local planarians. R,,. Jo, NWetebs
living examples of local molluscs, including Arianta arbustorum from Cavan,
Vitrea hibernica from type locality ; A. W. Stelfox, maps showing types
of distribution of the Irish terrestrial mollusks.
Before the close of the meeting the following new members were
elected :—
’ Mrs. Carrothers, Miss Cunningham, D. M. Bell, Samuel Ferguson,
and two new members of the junior section, Miss N. Gardner and G.
G. Elhott.
On Monday, 12th, the delegates and members proceeded to Newcastle,
where Slieve Donard and Donard Lodge woods were visited. In the
evening, Dr. R. F. Scharff lectured in the Queen’s University on “ The.
Relationships of the Irish Fauna.’’ Rev. Dr. Hamilton, Vice-Chancellor
of the University, occupied the chair.
Early the next morning the party started for a five-days’ tour on the
north coast of Derry and Antrim. While half of the number spent the
day exploring the precipices of Benevenagh, the remainder visited Port-
stewart and the sand-dunes at the mouth of the Bann. All proceeded in
the evening to the Giant’s Causeway, where after dinner R. Ll. Praeger
1913, . Lrish Societies. 159
lectured on ‘‘ Problems of the Irish Flora.’’ Next day was devoted to a
full examination of the Causeway, and the magnificent series of headlands
to the east of it. In the evening Dr. A. R. Dwerryhouse lectured on
“Features of Local Geology.”
Thursday was devoted to White Park Bay, Ballintoy, and Kinbane,
and on Friday a long day was spent on Fair Head and in Murlough
Bay. The following morning was devoted to Glenshesk and Armoy ;
in the afternoon a return was made to Belfast, and the party broke up.
A full account of the week’s doings, including the speeches delivered
at the Anniversary Meeting on May 10 and the scientific observations
made on the excursions, will be published in the next (1913-14) issue
of the Club’s ‘ Proceedings.”’
May 31.—ExcursIoN To NEwRy.—Twenty-two members travelled
from Belfast by the 9.55 train. Upon arrival at Newry the President
(Rev. Canon Lett, M.R.1.A.) conducted the party to Smith’s nurseries
on Daisy Hill. At the entrance, the members were met by Mr. Thomas
Smith, who took over the duties of guide for the remainder of the day,
and showed the members his remarkable collection of plants.
After lunch a small party proceeded to explore Camlough Mountain
in search of mosses and hepatics, while the remainder stayed in the gardens
or walked up the valley by the canal towing-path. In this waterway
were found enormous numbers of the water-snail Paludestrina Jenkinst.
Its complete absence abeve the first lock just outside the town, suggests
that this species is spreading inland from the estuary marshes, where it has
been known to occur for some years. By six o'clock all had gathered
at the Shelbourne, where tea was served, after which a short business
meeting was held. Miss Alice Churchill was elected a member of the Club.
JuNE 7.—The archeological section visited Ardglass under the guidance
of F. J. Bigger, inspecting the church, Margaret’s Castle, and Castle
Shane, with its quaint old-time plenishings.
JUNE 28.—EXCURSION TO SLEMISH.—Travelling by 12.25 train to Bally-
mena, brakes conveyed the party up the valley of the Braid, through
Broughshane, to the northern slopes of Slemish. From a geological
point of view, this mountain is of interest, being formed of a consolidated
plug of lava which filled the vent of an Eocene volcano during the later
stages of volcanic activity in the district. Botanically, too, Slemish
deserves attention, for here are to be found some local and many interesting
plants, and it was for the purpose of studying these that the excursion
was mainly undertaken. The party was led by S. A. Bennett, who during
the ascent pointed out the chief “ plant associations’’ met with, and
described their features, as well as the dominant plants of each. Tea
was provided for the party on their descent at Mr. Montgomery’s farm,
after which four new members—Miss A. Boyd and Messrs. Michael C.
Andrews, Stouppe, M‘Cance, and Robert Macllwaine—were elected
members.
160 The Lrish Naturalist. August,
DUBLIN NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB.
APRIL 5.—EXCURSION TO HowtTH.—Eighteen members under the leader-
ship of Miss M. C. Knowles, left Amiens Street by the 12.50 train for
Sutton, where they took the Summit tram to the Bailey Post Office.
Near this point the descent of the cliffs was made, and Miss Knowles
gave a most interesting demonstration of the various species of lichens
growing on the shore. Special attention was drawn to the very distinct
zones found about high-water mark, each zone being composed of a
different species. From a point about half-way down the cliffs the
different coloured bands could be very distinctly seen.
May 3.—EXCURSION TO BLESSINGTON AND POoULAPHOUCA.—The party,
consisting of fourteen members, left Terenure at 12 noon, and travelled as
far as Blessington by the steam tramway. The conductor, Prof. Cole,
first led the party to the junction of the Liffey with the King’s River,
where he explained how the course of the former stream had probably
been reversed by changes brought about during the Ice Age. Before
that time the Liffey probably took a much shorter and more direct course
to the sea than that which it follows at the present day. Possibly the
deep cleft known as the Slade of Saggart represents the old channel of
the river. The club afterwards went on to Poulaphouca to examine
the gorge and waterfall.
May 31.—ExXCURSION TO JOBSTOWN AND BALLINASCORNEY.—This
excursion, conducted by W. B. Wright, was attended by eighteen members,
who took the Blessington steam tram as far as Jobstown, from which
point they walked over the hills to Ballinascorney, where the conductor
pointed out various features of geological interest. The gap near the
top of Slievenamonogue was then visited, and its formation during the
Ice Age explained. Afterwards the party proceeded to Brittas, re-
turning to Dublin by the 8 o’clock tram.
DUBLIN MICROSCOPICAL CLUB.
JUNE 28.—ANNUAL Excurston.—Ten members took the 10.15 train
from Harcourt Street to Aughrim, and drove up the valley of the Ow
towards Aghavanagh. Turning to the mountain road they visited by
kind permission of the owner, Mr. Pierce Mahony’s shooting-lodge at
Mucklagh, where a beautiful rock-garden in full bloom was greatly
admired. Most of the party then ascended Mucklagh mountain
and two members made their way to the summit of Croaghanmoira
before rejoining the cars. The day being exceptionally clear and fine
the views were magnificent. The evening mail train was caught at
Rathdrum and a halt for dinner was made at Bray before the party
returned to town.
1913. Reviews. 161
REVIEWS.
ECONOMIC ORNITHOLOGY.
The Food of some British Wild Birds. By WALTER E. COLLINGE,
M.Sc., F.L.S.,.;Ppe Villy. + 110, London: Dulau & Co., 1913.
Price 4s. 6d.
To this useful volume, the author has prefixed as a motto the aphorism
that ‘‘ Economic Ornithology has progressed to the point where intensive
studies are demanded.’ A contribution to such intensive study is fur-
nished in the original observations on the stomach-contents of twenty-
nine common species of birds as to whose standing to the farmers’ or
gardeners’ industry more or less doubt exists. Of these only seven—
The Missel Thrush, Blackbird, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, Bullfinch,
Wood Pigeon, and Stockdove—are put definitely on the “ black list ;”’
but Mr. Collinge believes that the Chaffinch, Rook, and Starling are far
too numerous and would become beneficial if a reduced population should
obviate the necessity for grain-eating. Indeed, that hopeless pest, the
House Sparrow, might become, Mr. Collinge thinks, a reformed character
were he no more abundant than the Redbreast! A chapter on birds
as distributors and destroyers of weed seeds suggests some interesting
problems, and an extensive bibliography adds much to the value of the
book.
G H.C.
ZOOLOGICAL NATURE STUDY.
An Introduction to Zoology with Directions for Practical Work (Inverte-
brates). By Rosarre Luitwam, B.Sc. With illustrations by V.
G. Sheffield. Pp. xvi. + 458. 328 text-figures. London:
Macmillan & Co., 1913. Price 7s. 6d.
This brightly -written volume differs in many respects from the familiar
zoological text-book. It deals, to quote the preface, ‘‘ almost entirely
with the habits and external structure of common British invertebrate
animals,’ details of internal anatomy being only occasionally introduced.
Those who use it as a guide to practical work in the observation of live
specimens and the study of structure will acquire a good all-round know-
ledge of the common animals of the hedgerow, woodland, pond, river,
and seashore. The arrangement of the book is systematic. Perhaps
Miss Lulham would have been well advised not to have followed the
order of the ordinary biological class-work, and to have abandoned micro-
scopic Protozoa as an introduction to the subject ; but intelligent teachers
will be able readily to adapt the book to the needs of their own classes.
Considerably more than half the book is devoted to the Arthropoda, and
the account of the Insects is particularly well-done. The illustrations
are generally good, but some of those especially drawn for the book are
unequal in standard to others.
Gea Hc.
162 The Lrish Natu alist. August
NOTES,
BOTANY.
Mosses and Hepatics of Killarney.
In the Journal of Botany for June, 1913, D. A. Jones publishes an
article on the Mosses and Hepatics of the Killarney district. A certain
number of new records are included.
ZOOLOGY.
Clostera reclusa at Coolmore, Co. Donegal.
On May 18th a female of this species emerged from the pupa. I had
taken the larva at Coolmore in September last. Several fine Puss Moths
emerged during May and June from larvae taken at Coolmore. The males
emerged first.
Poyntzpass. W. F. JOHNSON.
A Gamekeeper’s list of Undesirables.
The following is a list of vermin killed on the Curraghmore estate during
the year 1912 :—
Squirrels 826 Hawks.. 27
Rats 413 Cats 14
Rooks ma) 27% Herons 17
Hooded Crows 132 -Magpies 81
Jackdaws 123 Hedgehogs 8
Stoats 29 Cormorants 2
It will be seen that the Squirrels head the list by a large majority.
They were killed during the months of the year as follows :--
January i ais 47 aly es of Pr
February st ae 45 August ys 76
March ate ie 2 SEplemiber = 2.2 gI
April va ae 65 October on 102
May = a 7 November ie 145
June sis zs 15 December a 195
I have been in this parish for many years, and only within the last
few years the Squirrels have appeared, and since their coming have
increased and multiplied in such numbers that they have now become
a terrible scourge. and pest. They are the most mischievous of our
animals—eating birds’ eggs, destroying young forest trees, and becoming
a terror and dismay to the gardener. I have myself shot a good many
in the garden here, but shooting appears to make no difference in their
1913. Notes. 163
numbers. They have come to this neighbourhood, and they are deter-
mined to stay. The Herons were shot because they devoured many
Rainbow Trout. I am sorry tor the Stoats, because they are good
friends to man—particularly in their destruction of Rats. A few months
since I wasa spectator of a fight between a Stoat and a Rat; I watched
it from only a very short distance. The Rat had no chance against its
relentless assailant. Until I had witnessed the fight, I had no idea of
the extraordinary ferocity and the marvellous quickness and agility of
the Stoat. In a trice it killed its prey by a bite at the back of the neck.
It then carried the Rat (a very large one) from one side of the road to the
other. I interfered for a moment, and the Stoat left the Rat, but ina
few seconds it appeared from a mass of briers, dashed out, collared its
dinner, and was out of sight in a few seconds. It was a wonderful
display of determination, adroitness, and skill.
Coolfin, Portlaw. W. W. FLEMYNG.
Lesser White-throat at Rockabill.
On May 13th a Lesser White-throat (Sylvia curruca) was disabled
striking at Rockabill lighthouse, Co. Dublin, and was forwarded to me
in the flesh. It proved to be a male, and is the first spring occurrence in
Ireland of this fairly common English breeding migrant. There are only
two other Irish records, both from lighthouses in October. Careful
observers may yet discover the Lesser White-throat breeding in this
country.
Fassaroe, Bray. RicHD. M. BARRINGTON.
Tree Sparrow in Co. Donegal.
Having read Dr. Patten’s account in British Birds, July, 1913, of the
breeding of the Tree Sparrow at Inishtrahull, it may be of interest
to mention that I have discovered another Donegal colony of these
birds, besides those already known. This colony, which I should estimate
at twelve or fourteen pairs (but there may be more) inhabit a small fishing
village on our north-west coast. Here Tree Sparrows may be seen nesting
in company with House Sparrows in ivy growing over the walls of an
occupied house, and in holes and crevices in the walls of outhouses in the
village. I have seen a nest also under eaves, where Swifts were breeding.
The birds are not shy, and can readily be identified.
Raphoe, C. V. STONEY,
164 The Irish Naturalist. August, 1913.
Recent Notes on Irish Birds.
Prof. C. J. Patten has published articles on ‘‘ Robins on migration
observed at the Tuskar Rock and Lighthouse” (Zoologist, Jan., 1913) ;
“The diurnal migrations of certain birds observed at the Tuskar Rock
(Zoologist, June, 1913); and “‘ Discovery of a colony of Tree-Sparrows,
on Inishtrahull Island, co. Donegal ”’ (British Birds, July, 1913). Mr. R.
Warren has published short notes as follows :—Sabine’s Snipe and Great
Northern: Diver in co. Cork (Zoologist, Jan.) ; Stone-Curlew in co. Cork,
Black-tailed Godwit living in a garden, and Ivory Gull at Cork (Zoologist,
March); Greenland Falcon in Mayo, and Ivory Gull in Donegal (Zoo-
logist, April); Greenland Falcon and Black-throated Diver in Mayo
(Zoologist, June). Other recent short notes include :—Golden Oriole
in Tyrone, and Greenland Falcon in co. Derry (W. C. Wright), and Lesser
Whitethroat at Rockabill (R. M. Barrington), in British Birds for June ;
Whinchat breeding in co. Cork (J. H. Stenhouse), and Fulmar Petrel
breeding on the Great Skellig (R. M. Barrington) in British Birds for
July.
Fulmars and Great Shearwater on Tory Island.
After inspecting the Donegal colony of Fulmars, announced in 1911, I
visited Tory Island in company with Dr. F. Lindner on 1st July, 1913.
On the passage, while stilla mile or more fromithe island, a Great Shearwater
flew rapidly across the bows of our boat in a westerly direction, giving
us ample opportunity of observing it about 30 yards off. It was alone,
flying close to the water. On reaching the island we ascended the hill
at the east end, and on the cliffs among the Razorbills we saw two pairs of
Fulmars sitting, and one or more besides gliding in circles close to these.
An islander who accompanied us said that these birds had just appeared
“a month and a half’’ previously. This new colony just started is the
second in Donegal, and the fourth or fifth known in Ireland; for on the
Mayo coast eggs have been obtained on a precipitous island, though not
far from the great cliff where I first saw Fulmars breeding in July, 1911.
From Mr. Barrington I have learned of the new colony discovered this year
on the Skelligs, co. Kerry; so that this species has established itself
in the extreme north, the north-west, and the extreme south-west of
Ireland, and may be looked for henceforth at any intermediate suitable
point on the coast.
Cappagh, Co. Waterford, R, J. USSHER,
September, 1913. The Lrish Naturalist 165
SOME ADDITIONS TO. THE NUDIBRANCH FAUNA
OF COUNTY DUBLIN.
BY NATHANIEL COLGAN, -M.R.I.A.
Further exploration of the marine molluscan fauna of
the inshore waters of County Dublin has shown that in one
group at least our knowledge of that fauna is by no means
complete. The dredgings and shore collectings of the past
two years, carried on at Dalkey, at Malahide, and at Skerries,
have added no less than eight species of nudibranchs to the
fauna of the shores and shallow waters of the county, and
brought up the Dublin total for this most interesting group
to well over 40 species. The eight new species are the
following :—
Aeolidiella Alderi. Coryphella gracilis.
Cratena amoena. C. Landsburgii.
C. viridis. Tritonia plebeia.
Embletonia pallida. Triopa claviger.
Three of these additions to the Dublin fauna appear to
be additions at the same time to the fauna of Nichols’s
Irish Marine Province II., comprising the east coast from
Carnsore Point north to St. John’s Point in Down! ; another
of the additions, Embletonia pallida, is apparently new to
Ireland ; and the remaining four species, though additions
to the Dublin shallow-water area lying within the 3 miles
limit from the shore line, have already been recorded for
the deeper waters outside of that limit yet off the Dublin
coast. —
Brief notes, descriptive and critical, on these additional
species are added here, references to Mr. G. P. Farran’s
‘** Nudibranchiate Mollusca of the Trawling Grounds of the
East and South coasts of Ireland® being distinguished by
the contraction, Farran ’o9.
AEOLIDIELLA ALDERI(Cocks).—A single specimen, 30 mm.
in length, was found under a stone at low water, Dalkey
Island, on the 16th May of this year. At first I set this
aside as a colour variety of the rather common Eolis
1 List of the Marine Mollusca of Ireland. Proc. R. I. Acad., 1900,
2 Fisheries, Ireland ; Scient. Investig., 1907, vi. [1909].
166 The Irish Naturalist. September,
papillosa, but an examination of the radula brought to
light the double-arched tooth characteristic of the neigh-
bouring genus Aeolidiella, while the number of denticles,
from 23 to 25, in each arch fixed the species as A. Aldert.
From the only other well-established Britannic species of
this genus, A. glauca, the present species is distinguished
by the smaller number of its teeth (about 15) and of their |
denticles. A specimen of A. glauca 22 mm. long, which
I dredged at Skerries two months later, gave a radula of
20 teeth with from 33 to 46 denticles in each arch.
Not previously recorded for the inshore waters of the
county, but taken in Lambay Deep, 41-52 f. in 1907
‘Farran ’09).
CRATENA AMOENA (Ald. and Hanc).—This species occurred
to me in four different dredgings off Skerries and Dalkey,
a single specimen being taken in each of the following
hauls :—(1) in 13 f. off Church Island, August, 1911; (2)
in 14 f. off the same island in July, 1913 ; (3) in 2 f. off Colt
Island, Skerries, July, 1913, and (4) in 14f. to the south
of Dalkey Island, July, 1913. The largest specimen was
6-5 mm. in length. All four agreed closely in form with
Hancock’s figure in the ‘‘ Monograph,” and all bore the
brown band there shown on the rhinophores ; but in none
was the colour of the papillae so distinctly green. It varied
from dull brown to sage green. The radula agreed with
the figure in the ‘“‘ Monograph” (‘‘ Tongues of the Eoli-
didae”’) the number of teeth in the 5 mm. specimen ex-
amined being 16.
Not previously recorded for East Ireland.
C. viripIs (Forbes).—Twice dredged off Church Island,
Skerries, in from 13 to 14 f., once in August, 1911, when 4
specimens were taken, the largest 6 mm. in length, and
again in July, 1913, when a single specimen was taken,
5mm. long. - In form and colour all of the specimens agreed
closely with Hancock’s plate of the species in the “* Mono-
eraph.” The radula of the 5 mm. specimen was examined,
and this, too, agreed well with Hancock’s figure in his plate
‘* Tongues of the Eolididae.”’ It was long and slender,
and made up of 30 teeth, each with about 5 denticles on
1913. Corcan.-—Nudibranch Fauna of Co. Dublin. 167
either side of the median denticle which was but slightly
prominent.
Though not previously recorded for the Dublin inshore
waters, this species was several times dredged in the Irish
Sea off the Dublin coast, in from 20 to 53 f. (Farran ’o9).
EMBLETONIA PALLIDA (Ald. and Hanc.).—In August,
I9g1I, while examining some hydroids collected off Shen-
nick’s Island, Skerries, I detected two specimens of Emble-
tonia, one 2:5 mm., the other under 2 mm. in length. They
were associated with Galvina exigua and Tergtpes despectus
on Obelia dichotoma. The larger specimen had a double
row of papillz on either side of the body, those towards
the central part much longer than the others. The papille
were yellow with orange tips. The second and smaller
specimen was pale whitish yellow in colour, and bore only
a single row of papille on either side. The first agreed in
form and size with Alder’s original description of E. pallida
(Jeffreys’ Brit. Conch., v., 1869), and differed only in its
brighter coloration from Hancock’s figure of that species
given in Part VIII. of the ‘‘ Monograph! ”’; the second
agreed perfectly with the figure in colour while differing
in the absence of a second row of papillae. Both specimens
were lost before I had had an opportunity of examining
the radula, but the larger, at least, may be safely assigned
to E. pallida. The smaller individual may, perhaps, have
been an immature state of the same species with imperfectly
developed papillae. Apparently new to Ireland.
CORYPHELLA GRACILIS (Ald. and Hanc.).—This elegant
little nudibranch occurred to me in no less than six dredgings
in July of this year, a total of II specimens being taken,
ranging in length from 3 to 6 mm. _ Ten specimens were
taken in 5 hauls off the Skerries islands in from 2 to 15 f.,
and one in 14 f. south of Dalkey Island. The coloration
was the same in all of the specimens, the papille being
rather a clear orange than the reddish brown tint shown
in Hancock’s plate. in the ‘‘Monograph.” In all other
respects the specimens agreed perfectly with that plate.
Not previously recorded for East Ireland.
1“ British Nudibranchiate Mollusca,’’ part viii. (Supplementary),
By Sir C, Eliot, Ray Society, 1910,
168 The Irish Naturalist. Septembe
C. Lanpsspurci (Ald. and Hanc.).—A single immature
specimen of this, perhaps the most beautiful of all our
Eolids, was taken in 2 f. in Malahide River, in September,
IgII, on one of the Dublin Field Club excursions. It
measured 5:5 mm. _ I secured a second, mature, specimen
20 mm. in length, in a dredging in 7 f. in Dalkey Sound, in
May of the present year. Both specimens agreed perfectly
with Hancock’s excellent plate in the ‘‘ Monograph.”
Not previously recorded for the Dublin shallow-water
area, but dredged four times in the Irish Sea, off the coasts
of the county, in from 19-24 f. (Farran ’o09).
TRITONIA PLEBEIA (Johnston).—In July, 1912, four
individuals of this species, the largest 18 mm. in length,
were detected nestling at the foot of a large specimen of
Alcyonium digitatum attached to an old Pecten shell which
I dredged in 14 f., off Church Island, Skerries. This associa-
tion of the Nudibranch with the Coelenterate has been
frequently noticed. It is a doubtful instance of commen-
salism, for the Tritonia probably lives not only with, but
on the Alcyonium.
I can find no record of this species for the Dublin
inshore waters, though it has been taken several times off
the shores of the county, but outside of the 3-mile limit
(Farran ’09).
TRIOPA CLAVIGER (Miiller)—A single specimen II mm.
long, and agreeing perfectly with Hancock’s plate in the
** Monograph,” occurred to me on the 18th July of this
year in a dredging made in 2 f. in the channel between
Colt Island and Church Island, Skerries.
This appears to be the first record for Dublin waters,
and for the Irish Marine Province II.
The results here recorded justify the hope that continued
exploration will yield further additions to the Nudibranch
fauna of the Dublin inshore waters, for many species of the
group already recorded for our Irish goasts still remain
desiderata in the Dublin list.
Sandycove, Co. Dublin,
1933. _ Frrenp —Notes on Dublin Oligochaets 169
NOTES ON DUBLIN OLIGOCHAETS.
BY REV. HILDERIC FRIEND.
During the month of March, rg13, I spent ten days in
Dublin, and took advantage of the opportunity to push for-
ward the study of the indigenous annelids. As Southern has
shewn (!)* it is many years since the subject first occupied
my attention. My own researches (4) were followed by
those of Southern (2), who, in 1908 stated that about 60
species of oligochaets had already been found in the district,
and estimated that probably not far short of 200 might
be found. It is proposed in the present paper to give a
topographical and chronological summary setting forth the
general results of my investigations, reserving the systema-
tic and complete list of species found for a second article.
I had the good fortune during my stay in Ireland to be
the guest of Mr. E. W. Booth, B.4.1., of Herbert Park,
Donnybrook, who gave me every assistance in my work,
and indicated the spots where research might be rewarded.
I opened my campaign on March 6th by visiting the banks
of the Dodder, and in a very short time found myself in
a most prolific hunting ground. The first annelid to greet
me was my old friend Lumbricus papillosus which has been
renamed Lumbricus Friend: Cognetti. For twenty years I
have sought it in vain in England, and as the search has
been carried out in almost every part of the country, there
seems good reason to believe that it is not English at all.
In the light of Dr. Scharff’s researches (©), and the interesting
statements of Taylor (7), this is an important fact. It is
also to be noted that L. terrestris L. is often rare or wanting
where its near ally is abundant. All the five species of
Lumbricus were found by the Dodder, but no new addition
was made to the genus, and it almost seems as if the British
species were limited to these. But among the Allolobo-
phoras, using the term to include all the genera and sub-
* The numbers in brackets refer to the Bibliography.
170 The Irish Naturalist. September,
genera of indigenous Lumbricidae not included in Lumbricus
and Allurus (Eiseniella), good work still remains to be done.
It was a great delight to come across such a species, for
example, as Helodrilus oculatus Hoffmeister.
This curious annelid has had a rather romantic history.
First discovered and described in 1845, it was for nearly
half a century lost to sight, just as Lumbricus festivus was
till I rediscovered it in Yorkshire. In 1890 Michaelsen
found Helodrilus and named it Allolobophora Hermanni (°)
andit was some time before one learned that the two names
referred to one and the same worm. As time went on it was
discovered by Mr. Evans near Edinburgh, and by myself
at Cambridge. In 1908 I found it in Malvern, but though
it was under observation for two years, an adult was
never found. Since that time, however it has been collected
by me in Sussex, by the Thames at Kew, in Epping Forest,
Oxfordshire, Derbyshire, Notts, and elsewhere, and now its
most westerly record is Co. Dublin. It occurs in the mud
by the side of rivers, streams and pools, and extends to
the shore, often living within the reach of the tide.
Numerous well-known forms such as the Green Worm
(A. chlorotica), the Square Tail (Allurus), the Long Worm
(A. longa), and several species of Eisenia and Dendrobaena
also occurred. The Brandling (£. foetida) and the Mucous
Worm (E£. mucosa =rosea) were here, with the Gilt-tail, the
Tree Worm and others. But no fewer than three other
species of Allolobophora were found which were new to
Ireland as well as to Great Britain, and possibly one or two
may prove to be new to science. It is impossible to give
details here, as the material has yet to be re-examined,
but there seems not the least reason to doubt that
A. norvegica is among the number. The proofs will be
supplied in the next paper.
Passing from the larger forms it may be remarked that
among the Enchytraeids, several very interesting things were
found. While £. albidus Henle proved to be the dominant
type, £. minimus Bret. was also abundant. This is a very
tiny species, many specimens not exceeding 2 mm. in length,
and is not to be confused with E. turicensis Br. of which
Tg 13. FRIEND.—Wotes on Dublin Oligochaets. 171
Southern has given an account (7). In the mud left by
the tide, I found a species of Pachyroilid which agrees very
closely with Marionina georgiana, which I have already
taken in England. Typical fyvidericia bulbosa also occurred.
This is one of the variable species of Fridericia, hence the
qualification.
Well pleased with my first day’s work, I turned inland
on Friday, March 7th, and examined the district to the
south-west of Donnybrook, giving special attention to the
earth by the side of the Dundrum road. Here the usual
Lumbricids were abundant, including such forms as L.
terrestris, L. rubellus and L. castaneus, with A. longa, A.
chorotica, and A. caliginosa. The Gilt-tail (Dendrobaena
subrubicunda), Brandling, and the interesting form once
known as the Celtic Worm (A. celtica), but now recognised
as D. mammalis, were not uncommon. In the damp soil
by the runnels, Allurus was abundant, but I could not find
anything save the typical form. There were one or two
Tubificide and numerous Enchytraeids, including Henlea
Dicksont and a species new to science.
March roth was spent by the side of the canal between
Leeson Park and Phoenix Park. The worm which was
years ago found in Dr. Scharff’s garden at Leeson Park,
and named Eisenia hibernica was re-discovered in a heap of
garden refuse. Vast numbers of Enchytraeus minimus and
E. albidus were also met with, and a species of Buchholzia
which was fin no instance mature. Here, too, Achaeta
bohemica was plentiful, as were F. bulbosa, E. Buchholz, and
other Enchytraeids. In a ditch beyond Portobello, as
well as in the mud by the sides of the canal, Tubifex was
found. It was not common in my gleanings, but two
species of Limnodrilus occurred, viz., L. Hojfmeistert and
L. udekenuanus and a species of Ilyodrilus. Two cocoons
of Limnodrilus full of eggs were in fine condition. The
usual earthworms were found, including Allurus, and some
species of Fridericia.
~ On the 11th I visited Sandymount, but was unable to
find £. sabulosus described by Southern as occurring there.
Returning by the canal, which had proved very productive,
172 The lrish Naturalist. September,
I again found large numbers of FE. albidus in a bit of old
sacking ; Achaeta bohemica, E. minimus and D. mammalis
abounded among the roots of Petasites fragrans which bind
the banks of the canal together, and several species of
Henlea and Fridericia came to hand. I may mention
F. bulbosa and fF’. Michaelsent as the most common. F.
paromana also occurred, while the Henleas included 4.
parva, H. tubula, H. glandulosa, H. rhaetica, H. perpusilla
and H. Dicksont. A form which may, perhaps, be allied to
H. tenella occupied my attention, and a new species with
only two setae per bundle. I could not find H. hibernica
Southern, but since my return to England both H. bisetosa
and H. hibernica have been found in the environs of Notting-
ham.
On Wednesday, March 12th, Mr. R. Booth, J.P.. of Dalkey
motored me to St. Douloughs, Malahide, and Swords. It
had been my wish to explore the spots which Dr. Turnbull
found so rich in annelids in former years, but it was
impossible to get everything done in the course of a few
hours. Interesting things were found close by the old
cross at our first stopping place, St. Douloughs, the most
pleasing of which, perhaps, was Ff’. aurita, a species which
Southern had already reported as occurring at Bray Head
and Lambay, though I had never been able to find it in
England. Close to the bridge at Swords, Helodrilus oculatus
was again found, and among the specimens at least one was
adult, and showed the characteristic pores on segment I5 as
well as the girdle. Sundry Tubificids were also found in the
mud, but I was unable during my visit to obtain any traces
of Nais and its allies, or of the different forms of Stylo-
drilus or Lumbriculus.
In some respects my most successful search was made on
March 14th when Ringsend was visited, and a return made
by the productive banks of the Dodder. Many of the
species already enumerated were found again, including
most of the earthworms. In the decaying Algae in the
corner under the sea wall, two or three species of Pachy-
drilids were found. This group is a difficult one, and as
far as my experience goes much revision is necessary. It
1913. FriEND.—WNotes on Dublin Oligochaets. 173
is hoped, however, that in the systematic portion of this
study it will be possible to give the exact descriptions and
names.
The species of annelid found at Ringsend which gave me
the greatest pleasure, was a peculiar Tubificid with Pachy-
drilus-like setae. Full particulars will be supplied later, but
it may here be remarked that I have found the same
species on the east coast of England, and have been led to
believe that it is identical with the Lumbricus lineatus of
the earlier authors. It is quite distinct from Lumbricillus
lineatus, a true Enchytraeid which is found in similar
localities. The Ringsend specimens contained at least one
adult. It is found by digging in the moist sand, and might
easily be mistaken for Clitellio or one of the other estuarine
forms of annelids.
Enough has been said to shew that a number of additions
will be made to the annelid fauna of Dublin, as a result of
my visit. One might hope for great things if other districts
could be explored in the same systematic way.
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1. SOUTHERN : In Handbook of Dublin District, 1908, pp. 197-9 (prepared
for Brit. Assoc.)
oe «Proc, Roy. Jr. Acad., SXVII.. - Section, B.,; 1909;.. pp.
119-182.
—:TIyvish Naturalist, 1906-7.
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= =| Proc. Roy. Iv. . Acad. (3) Vol. L:;-402;,7%45 3:3
ScHARFF : The History of the European Fauna.
TAYLOR: Dominancy in Nature, 1913. Pres. Address, Yorks. Nat.
Union.
MICHAELSEN : Oligochaeta. Das Tierreich, 1900.
No
VARY
Pocklington, York.
174 —iThe Irish Naturalist. September,
SOME NOTES ON THE MIGRATION OF THE
WHITE WAGTAIL ON THE ISLAND OF
BART RAGH, & -TCLAVAT Abn ts
BY ROBERT WARREN.
Up to the time of the publication of Wm. Thompson’s
‘* Birds of Ireland,’ there is no authentic record of the
capture of this bird (Motacilla alba) in Ireland. All
Thompson knew was from a letter received from his friend
the late Mr. R. Ball of Dublin, stating that a few days
before, at Roundwood, he had seen a specimen of the true
M. alba, as distinguished from M. Yarrellu ; this 1s all
the meagre information at that time in Thompson’s posses-
sion.
Regarding the regular visits of this bird on its northern
movement to Bartragh, there can be no doubt of its regular
line of flight northwards across that island, in proof of which
we have the facts of its yearly visits from 1897 up to and
including this present year 1913, when on the 24th of April,
my friend Captain Kirkwood observed four birds on the
island, and on the 28th he saw several others.
I first met this bird on the 25th April, 1851, on the island
of Bartragh, feeding after the harrows of a man sowing oats.
My attention was first attracted by its quiet movements,
as it walked after the harrows, so different from the quick
jerky, fussy action of the Pied Wagtail when feeding ;
also its very white cheeks, and light grey back, showed
me it was a stranger, and it suddenly occurred to me that .
it was the rare Motacilla alba, so changing the shot in my
gun for No. 8, I waited until the bird came round again
after the harrows, when I knocked over the first specimen
of Motacilla alba known to have been shot in Ireland.
The very white cheeks and light grey back at once
identified it by the woodcut in Yarrell’s ‘‘ British Birds,”
that I had seen two years before in Belfast. I at once
sent on the specimen (by post), to my old and valued
friend the late Dr. J. R. Harvey, of Cork, for his fine collec-
tion of Irish birds, but very unfortunately, it was so long
delayed in transmission through the post office that it
1913. WARREN.—=Migration of the White Wagtatl. 175
reached Dr. Harvey so far gone as to be quite unfit to be
set up as a mounted specimen, or even for keeping as a skin.
However, he verified my opinion as to its being M. alba.
Thinking that this bird was a mere stranger and not a
regular visitant, neither my brother nor I tookany thought
about it, never expecting to see another, and it was not
until the 29th of April, 1893, that I renewed my acquaintance
with White Wagtails. I had taken with me in my boat
two young friends to see the birds on Bartragh, and when
walking across a damp flat of pasture, I observed a White
Wagtail feeding. Taking my glass to make sure, I pointed
out the bird to my friends, and at that moment it was joined
by a companion, but where it had come from I did not
know. However, taking my gun, and quietly approaching
within range I fired, and obtained the second M. alba taken
in Ireland. The specimen is now in the collection of the
National Museum, Dublin. Before leaving the island, I
showed the specimen to my young friend the late Mr. A.
C. Kirkwood, asking him to keep a sharp look-out for any
other visitors. But it was not until April, 1897, that he
met a solitary bird feeding near the place where I had shot
the specimen in 1893. Recognising the bird as a White
Wagtail, he returned for his gun, but in the meantime, a
heavy shower of rain had driven the bird to seek shelter,
and it had disappeared when he came up to the place. How-
ever, next season, on the 29th of April, 1898, he was more
successful, when he met five birds feeding in a newly-sown
oat field, his glass showing that they were White Wagtails.
This party left the island, but on the roth May, they were
replaced by a flock of fifteen birds. He saw them resting
on the slope of a little hillock, but on his approach, rising,
they fled to the shore among the rocks and stones; they
only remained until the afternoon when they all disappeared.
But on the 19th, they were replaced by five others, on which
day I had the pleasure of seeing them near the paddock on
the island. Mr. Kirkwood saw a pair on the 26th and the
date being so late, he thought they were remaining to breed.
However, he was mistaken, for, before the Ist June, they
also disappeared.
76 The Lrish Naturalist. September
On April the 27th, 1899, Mr. Kirkwood saw a solitary
bird in the stable yard at Bartragh, and secured the speci-
men for a friend’s collection. A few days after he met
another bird at the same place, but it remained onlya few
days. These were succeeded by a pair seen on the 4th of
May, picking up insects from a manure heap in the farm
yard. These birds only remained for a couple of days, |
until they had fed and rested. Some seasons very few
birds appear, for their presence depends on the weather ;
their stay on the island also depends on the state of the
winds ; for instance, in Ig19, they visited Bartragh in
unusually large numbers, and, owing to long continued
northerly and north-westerly winds, their flight was delayed
until a favourable change to the south permitted it.
The first arrival of their advance guard was led by
a pair seen on the 5th of May, afterwards single birds
began to drop in; on the 8th a flock of five were
seen, next day more appeared, and on the 12th, a
flock of 25 birds were seen feeding on their usual haunt.
Some of them disappeared, but on the 14th, 22 were
counted feeding on the wet pasture. However, as the
wind was changing to the south, by the rIgth only a
solitary individual remained on the island. In 19712,
another rush of birds took place. On April the 25th
Captain Kirkwood observed a flock of fifteen or sixteen
that remained on the island for three days, until the gale
of northerly wind (blowing on their arrival) subsided, and
changed round to south-west, when they all disappeared.
The favourite feeding and resting ground of these birds on
the island, is a damp sandy flat, growing a short coarse
grass, situated at the back of the garden, and extending from
the shore of the estuary up to the foot of the sandhills, and
if any birds are on the island, they are sure to be met on
or near it.
It will be seen on the map that Killala Bay opens to the
north, and is about eight miles across from Kilcummin
Head, its western boundary, to Lenadoon Point, its eastern
boundary on the Sligo coast. The bay extends into the
land for nearly seven miles, when it is met by the island
1913. WARREN.—WMigration of the White Wagtail. 177
of Bartragh—a range of sandhills—about three miles in
length, stretching right across the bay, and forming a
breakwater sheltering the estuary from the frequent
northerly winds sweeping up the bay. The river Moy has
access to the bay by a narrow channel between the sand-
hills of Bartragh and those of Enniscrone on the Sligo side,
while on the Mayo side, the little Moyne channel running
out by Killala separates it from the Ross sandhills.
The bay, stretching out north, as I may say, opens its
arms to receive any storm-worn birds, which gladly take
refuge on the sandhills, or on the sands or calm water of
the estuary. We have had two Greenland Falcons on the
island sandhills and after a severe snowstorm a Snowy
Owl was seen there also. Then during the same storm,
fourteen Snow Geese rested on the sands. Bewick’s Swans
often rest on the sands. Eider Ducks have been shot, and
a pair of American Surf Scoters.
Up to 1854, a pair of White-tailed Eagles every winter
took up their abode on the sandhills, but owing to the traps
and poison of the game preservers and mountain shepherds,
the days of the eagles have passed away.
Monkstown, Co. Cork.
IRISH SOCIETIES.
ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Recent gifts include a Cheetah from Capt. H. C. Dobbs, two Civet Cats
from Rev. E. T. Pakenham, a Fox from Dr. Dwyer, Guinea-pigs from
Mrs. Biddulph and Mrs. Grafter, Rabbits from Messrs. R. & H. Brown,
a Black Rat from Messrs. T. & C. Martin, eight Waxbills from Mrs. Carden,
a Sparrow-hawk from Mr. Donohue, four Kestrels from Mr. R. White, a
Barn Owl from Mr. H. J. Johnson, and two Toads from Miss Wingfield.
A young male Chimpanzee, a pair of good-sized Orang-utans, a
Slow Loris, and three Marmosets, a Marabou Stork, and a pair of White
Storks have been purchased. A Zebra foal and two Lion cubs have
been born in the Gardens; the Zebra is a Grant-Burchell hybrid, and
the parents of the young lions are “ Conn ” and ‘“ Mitze,”’
178 The Lrish Natwalist. September,
NOTES,
ZOOLOGY.
Notes from the Skelligs.
I have received a letter from Mr. P. J. MacGinley, light-keeper on the
Great Skellig, dated 1st August, in which he writes :— ey
Fu_tMar.—“ The colony of Fulmars have left the rock (on the 25th
July) and have taken nine young ones with them. Possibly there may
have been one or two more.”
RAZORBILL, GUILLEMOT.—“ The young Razorbills and Guillemots are
nearly all gone also, and the Kittiwakes are practising their short flights,
having left their nests. It is about 25 minutes after sunset that the
Razorbills and Guillemots take their young to sea, ofa clear evening later ;
where the cliff is overhanging they just edge the young one over to the
extreme edge, and then give him a gentle shove off. No matter how
high the nest, once the young bird is off he keeps fluttering all the time in
mid air, sufficiently to maintain his balance ; he never tumbles. While
he is dropping into the water he is screaming, and so are the older ones,
making an awful row, but only for the time till they have him safe in
the water. When he touches it he instantly dives once only with the
older ones, then he strikes out for sea with the parents on either side ;
then to sea they go as fast as they can swim, but I have never seen the
young bird dive except when touching the water. This dive is but for
a few seconds only.
| “In the case of the nest not overhanging, the young one is carried out
caught by the wing, and as soon as they have him clear of the cliff, they
et him go; they only take him clear which they are able to judge to a
nicety.
“It is possible they leave at sunrise, or the early hours of the morning,
but it is mostly in the evenings I see them going.
“To make this matter clear. I have seen them take the young at any
height from 40 to 100 feet, and never saw the young bird tumble, or
touch the water in an awkward manner; he is fluttering all the time and
maintains his balance. The first I noticed leaving the rock was on the
eve of the 27th of July,once they start they are all cleared out in a week.
GANNET.—“ As regards the Gannets on the Little Skellig, it is literally
covered with them, and they are increasing in numbers every year. From
the highest point of the rock, which is close on 500 feet, to within 16 feet
of high water, they are nesting, and have spread all over the rock. They
have reduced the numbers of other birds as far as possible, but there are
two large caves or overhanging cliffs with very narrow shelves or iedges
where other birds still breed. On these shelves it would not be possible
for the Gannet to rest, but it is the only spot on the rock where they are
not, and the others have it to themselves undisturbed by the Gannets,
though they are only a few feet overhead,”
913. Notes. 179
As to the way inwhich the young Guillemots are brought down fromthe
cliffs, I have not had opportunity of observing this myself, but it is
evident that when this is done in the evening, there is less risk of attacks
from the larger gulls, the great enemies of the Guillemots, which are fast
driving them from the Saltee Islands by the continued plunder of their
eggs.
Mr. McCarron, a former light-keeper, gave an account of his observations
of the young Alcidze descending to the water, which differs in several
particulars from the above, but as I am from home I cannot now refer
tO, 1k:
R. J. USSHER.
Cappagh, Co. Waterford.
BOTANY.
A new Alisma Hybrid from Ireland.
In the ‘‘ Botanische Centralblatt’”’ for 1913, Abt. i, in a paper on
hybrids among the Alismaceae, Professor Hugo Glick describes and
figures Echinodorus ranunculoides x Alisma Plantago, from a specimen
collected near Tuam by R. LI. Praeger in 1899. A search recently made
in the locality by Professor Glick for further specimens was not successful,
but the district isa wide one. The allied hybrid*A. Plantago x E. ranun-
culoides, nearer to A. Plantago than to its other parent, is also described
and figured. Professor Gliick found it at Killower (the place where the
other hybrid was obtained), and also subsequently in Anglesey ; and he
has seen a specimen in the herbarium of Rev. E. S. Marshall, collected
by that botanist in Scotland.
Sprianthes Romanzoffiana in Co. Armagh.
Mr. N. Carrothers sends a couple of specimens of this orchid, gathered
by him on the Armagh shores of Lough Neagh. He says the plant extends
for a mile along the shore west of the Pumping Station, and that he counted
fifty specimens close together. The continual discoveries of this extremely
rare plant—in Europe confined to a few Irish counties—is one of the
most interesting and pleasing features of recent botanical field work in
Ulster.
R, LL. PRAEGER,
Dublin.
180 The lrish Naturalist September, 1913.
REVIEW.
The British Parasitic Copepoda. By Tuomas Scott, LL.D., F.L.S.,
and ANDREW Scott, A.L.S. Volumes I. and II. Copepoda Parasitic
on Fishes. London: Ray Society, 1913. Vol. I., xii + 256 pp., 2 pl.
Vol. Tic, xu. 1 44"pp.,. 72 pl. . ; Price 40s, net.
It is thirty-three years since the appearance of the last volume of
Professor Brady’s Ray Society Monograph of the free and semi-parasitic
Copepoda of the British Isles. The present volumes, dealing with the
Copepoda parasitic on fishes, continue the account of the Order and,
though the interval has been a long one, those to whom they are now avail-
able have no reason to complain of the delay since it has allowed the authors
to deal very fully with their subject, and has given them an opportunity
of personally observing almost all the species described.
The first volume contains the letterpress, the second, of almost equal
size, the plates. The figures, which, with very few exceptions, have been
drawn by Mr. A. Scott from the actual specimens, seem to contain every-
thing necessary for the identification of the species.
The introduction gives a general account of the morphology and habits
of the two orders Caligoidea and Ternaloidea, as exemplified by Lepeoph-
theirus and Lernaea. It may be noted that the authors, in describing
the appendages of the Caligidae, adhere to the nomenclature put forward
by Mr. A. Scott in his Liverpool Biological Society memoir on Caligus, and
afterwards adopted by Mr. C. B. Wilson in his papers on the same family.
They do not, however, refer to the difficulty which arises in comparing
this arrangement with that found throughout all the rest of the Copepoda.
In the systematic section, the authors, though alluding to this usual
practice, have not attempted to revise any of the previously published
classifications but have followed that adapted by Basset-Smith from
Gerstaecker. The 116 species of fish parasites which are described are
arranged under the Cyclopoidea, 5 species, the Caligoidea, 49 species, and
the Ternaeoidea, 61 species, the single British representative of the peculiar
genus Ayulus usually reckoned amongst the Copepoda, making up the
total. Two species of Tevella, which are parasitic on whales and hence
do not come within the somewhat artificially restricted scope of the Mono-
graph, are briefly referred to.
It appears from the title that a further volume, dealing with Copepoda
parasitic on animals other than fishes, may be expected, though there
is no definite statement to this effect. It is to be hoped that the expecta-
tion will not be disappointed.
or. oF,
October, 1913. The Irish Naturalist. 181
NOTES ON THE FLORA OF THE SALTEES.
I. PHANEROGAMIA.
BY R. LLOYD PRAEGER.
THE Saltees are a group of two islands lying off the south
coast of Co. Wexford. The larger, the Great Saltee, is
slightly over a mile in length, by about } mile in breadth,
the longer axis running S.W. Its area is 216 acres. It
is separated from Kilmore Quay, the nearest point of the
mainland, by 33 miles of sea. The smaller island lies about
a mile nearer shore, and has an area of 93 acres. The
islands lie on a submarine ridge which is clearly traceable
from Kilmore for some 10 miles to the south-westward,
and, without doubt, they formed part of the mainland in
recent geological times.
The Great Saltee presents on the landward (N.W.) side
a long monotonous beach of angular boulders, backed by
a low weed-grown scarp of boulder-clay. ‘Ehence;; the
ground rises south-eastward to the opposite coast, distant
about + mile, which is bold and precipitous. The two
extremities of the island are high, and there the ground
descends steeply on the S.E. side for nearly 200 feet into
the sea. The middle part of the island is lower, and there
the cliffs are about 100 feet in height.
Our knowledge of, the flora of the Saltees rests on a one-
day visit made by H. C. Hart, in 1882, when exploring
the flora of the Wexford and Waterford coasts.!. On that
occasion, he visited both islands, and made a list of plants
(153 species) which, considering the short time at his disposal,
was singularly complete.
In the middle of last June, in company with R. J. Ussher,
R. M. Barrington, Canon Lett, and several others, I spent
six days on the Great Saltee—our intention of visiting the
1 Report on the Flora of the Wexford and Waterford coasts. Sci.
Proc. R.D.S., iv., pp.117-146, 1883.
A
182 The lrish Naturalist. October,
smaller island being frustrated by bad weather. In the
present paper, I shall deal with my observations on the
Flowering Plants and their allies; notes on the Mosses,
Hepatics, Lichens and Marine Algae, as collected by Canon
Lett or myself, follow.
Assuming a tolerable completeness in Hart’s list—an
assumption justified by my own observations—considerable .
interest attaches to the study of the present-day flora on
the following account :—At the time of his visit, and up
till ten years ago, the island was inhabited. Some 80 acres
were under tillage, and cattle and sheep grazed all over
the higher rocky grounds at either end. At that time the
extensive colonies of breeding sea-birds, for which the
island has long been famous, were practically confined to
the inaccessible slopes and cliffs. The Rabbits also, intro-
duced at some bygone time, were kept in check by trapping.
The withdrawal of man and of cattle ten years ago, has
resulted in striking changes in the distribution of both
animals and plants. The Puffins, Razorbills, and Guille-
mots have moved up, and now occupy broad slopes and
even flat ground formerly grazed. The Herring-Gulls,
which have increased enormously in numbers, and the
Lesser Black-backed Gulls, have occupied—one or other
of them—nearly the whole of the two high ends of the
island, including large areas of former pasture. Manx
Shearwaters have even invaded the farm-land, and breed
in holes in the earth and stone fences. The Bracken has
swept in forests across the former grazing-lands occupying
the two high ends of the island. At the same time, the
spread of the vegetation has been much influenced by the
fauna. The large area of former tillage which occupies
the middle parts of the island has been completely invaded
mainly by indigenous plants, but these are cropped down
to the closest possible sward by the innumerable Rabbits.
The birds control the vegetation inhabiting their vast
colonies, beating out certain species, and permitting the
growth only of those which can withstand the guano and
continual trampling. The facies of the flora has thus
19 13. PRAEGER.—Phanerogamia of Saltees. 183
been greatly altered since Mr. Hart made his list, and
furnishes a very interesting study.
Some of the leading types of the vegetation, as it now
exists, may be briefly described. To take first the area
which was never under cultivation, but much of which was
grazed. At the Puffin colonies at the S. and S.W. margins
of the island, a pure sward of Sfergularia rupestris occupies
conspicuous areas. Above this, at both ends of the island,
where rocky ridges and knolls stand up and innumerable
gulls breed, Szlene maritima, often quite unmixed with
other species, forms: the vegetation, presenting at the time
of our visit a most characteristic colour and appearance,
visible from a long distance. | Where the soil is deeper,
great sheets of Rumex Acetosa and R. Acetosella, exceedingly
luxuriant, are often dominant, plentifully mixed in places
with Holcus mollis and Scilla nutans. Where the bird
population is thinner, Pieris Aquilina becomes dominant,
growing very tall and dense, and sheltering vast quantities
of Scilla nutans, which forms a continuous undergrowth
over many acres. All over the island, in both the untilled
and formerly tilled areas, one is struck by the bold grouping
of the plants, associations covering wide areas being formed
almost exclusively of two or three or four species. Some
of these present rather unexpected groupings. Among the
best-marked associations of the Pteris formation are :—
1. Pteris Aquilina + Scilla nutans.
2. Pteris Aquilina + Scilla nutans + Rumex Acetosa
+ Nepeta Glechoma (a common type).
3. Pteris Aquilina + Hydrocotyle vulgaris + Scilla
nutans.
To turn to the area formerly cultivated; this presents
a great contrast to the rank vegetation of the rest of the
island. The old fences, and the clay slope that frin
the long straight N.W. coast of the island, are indeed
occupied by a luxuriant coarse vegetation—thistles, docks,
nettles, and Ragwort. But elsewhere the vegetation
invading the old cultivation is often as close as if a lawn-
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mower had passed over it. This Rabbit-work gives a
great opportunity to species which are not eaten by that
voracious quadruped. Hence the thickets of weeds just
mentioned ; and hence also the remarkable development
of certain smaller species. Potentilla Anserina, for instance,
occupies whole fields, with a dense undergrowth of Sagina
procumbens ; Carex arenaria, which is found all over the
island in spite of a complete absence of sand, often forms
patches half an acre in extent, to the exclusion of almost
every other plant. Evodium martimum, also, which is
immensely abundant all over the island, occupies certain
areas exclusively. The only place where anything approach-
ing sand is found is at the stony hook-shaped point inside
of the curved boulder-shoal known as ‘“‘ The Ring.” Here
much comminuted shell-material occurs. It is colonized
by a dense growth of Cochlearia danica and Evodium mari-
timum, with Atriplex sp. and Matricaria inodora.
There are several springs on the island, which here and
there form pools; but these are so much frequented by
culls that vegetation in them is almost mil. The marsh-
plants occur mostly in ditches by which the water from
the springs soaks down towards the sea.
Hart’s list of the flora, as already stated, numbers 153
species. Fourteen of these, listed below, he noted only
from the Lesser Saltee ; five of them (marked G), I saw
on the Great Saltee :-—
Medicago lupulina. G Juncus Gerardi.
Spergularia media. G Carex arenaria.
G Oenanthe crocata. C. extensa.
Petasites vulgaris. G Aira caryophyllea.
Leontodon hirtus. Agropyron repens.
G Samolus Valerandi. Glyceria maritima.
P Polygonum aviculare. Equisetum maximum.
I shall now list the whole flora (Phanerogamia and allies)
of the Great Saltee as at present known, postponing the
question of their standing as natives or otherwise, but
adding by means of familiar contractions (l1=local) their
1913. PRAEGER.—Phanerogamia of Saltees. 185
relative abundance. Two plants in Hart’s list which he
records with doubt (Hedera Helix and Rubus villicaulis)
are omitted; on the other hand, 60 species (marked P)
were seen by me which are not given by Hart ; of the plants
in his list, 30 (marked H) were not found by me.
Ranunculus hederaceus, r. H Trifolium pratense
Flammula, f. repens, c.
acris, r. dubium, f.
repens, C. Lotus corniculatus, c.
P parviflorus, v.r. uliginosus, f.
yp -Ficaria; ¢. H Vicia Cracca
Pp Fumaria confusa, v.r. sepium, TF.
H officinalis H Lathyrus pratensis
Pp Nasturtium officinale, v.r. P Rubus leucostachys, r.
p Cardamine pratensis, f. P nemoralis, r.
H hirsuta Potentilla Tormentilla, r.
Cochlearia officinalis, c. P procumbens, r.
P+ danica,. c. Anserina, v.c.
p Brassica Rapa, l.c. p Alchemilla arvensis, v.r.
Pp Sinapis arvensis, v.r. Cotyledon Umbilicus, c.
H Raphanus Raphanistrum. Sedum anglicum, c.
Viola Riviniana, c. Callitriche stagnalis, f.
P camnina, f. ep pedunculata, f.
H tricolor Peplis Portula, v.r.
H Polygala vulgaris. Lythrum Salicaria, f.
Silene maritima, v.c. p Epilobium obscurum, v.r.
Pp Cerastium tetrandrum, c. Hydrocotyle vulgaris, v.c.
glomeratum, r. Conium maculatum, r.
triviale, f. p Apium nodiflorum, f.
Stellaria media, c. p Sium angustifolium, v.r.
Pp uliginosa, v.r. Crithmum maritimum, r.
Pp Sagina apetala, v.r. Pp Oenanthe crocata, v.r.
maritima, C. Heracleum Sphondylium, f.
procumbens, v.c. Pp Sambucus nigra, v.r.
H Spergula arvensis H Lonicera Periclymenum
Spergularia rupestris, v.c. pe Galium saxatile, f.
p Montia fontana, c. palustre, r.
Hypericum elodes, vr. Aparine, r.
Radiola linoides, r. Sherardia arvensis, v.r.
Geranium molle, r. Bellis perennis, c.
H dissectum Aster Tripolium, c.
p Erodium cicutarium, v.r. Gnaphalium uliginosum, f.
maritimum, v.c. Inula crithmoides, r.
Ulex europaeus, l. Pulicaria dysenterica, r.
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Anthemis Cotula
Chrysanthemum segetum
Matricaria inodora, c.
Artemisia vulgaris, v.r.
Tussilago Farfara, r.
Senecio vulgaris
Jacobaea, v.c.
aquaticus, r.
Arctium minus, r.
Carduus pycnocephalus, v.r.
lanceolatus, c.
palustris, c.
arvensis, Cc.
Centaurea nigra, fr.
Lapsana communis, v.r.
Hieracium Pilosella
Hypochaeris radicata, r.
Leontodon autumnalis
Taraxacum officinale, r.
Sonchus oleraceus, r.
asper, I.
arvensis, r.
Jasione montana
Calluna vulgaris, r.
Erica cinerea, fr.
Armeria maritima, c.
Anagallis arvensis, f.
tenella, f.
Centunculus minimus, v.r.
Samolus Valerandi, r.
Erythraea Centaureum, f.
pulchella
Symphytum officinale, r.
Myosotis arvensis, v.c.
collina, v.c.
versicolor, v.c.
Linaria Elatine
Veronica hederaefolia, v.r.
agrestis
Tournefortii, v.r.
. arvensis, fr.
serpyllifolia, r.
officinalis, r.
Chamaedrys, r.
Euphrasia officinalis, f.
Bartsia Odontites, f.
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Pedicularis sylvatica, r.
Nepeta Glechoma, c.
Prunella vulgaris, c.
H Stachys palustris
H arvensis
H Lamium amplexicaule
H purpureum
Teucrium Scorodonia, f.
Plantago major, r.
lanceolata, c.
maritima, v.c.
Coronopus, v.c.
H Chenopodium album
H rubrum
Beta, maritima, f.
Atriplex hastata, c.
Babingtonii, c.
October,
Polygonum Hydropiper, v.r.
P Persicaria, v.f.
Rumex obtusifolius, c.
crispus, C.
Acetosa, v.c.
Acetosella, v.c.
H Euphorbia Helioscopia
H Paralias
Urtica dioica, t:
urens, I.
Pp Orchis incarnata, v.rf.
Scilla nutans, v.c.
Juncus bufonius, f.
Pp Gerardi, v.r.
conglomeratus, c.
supinus, fr.
Pp lamprocarpus, Tf.
P acutiflorus, f.
P Luzula campestris, r.
erecta, I.
Lemna minor, r.
Scirpus Savii, f.
Pp Carex arenaria, Cc.
Pp evulpina, ©
H echinata
ovalis, v.r.
binervis, r.
YP . flava, va.
Ps hirta, ve
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Pp Phalaris arundinacea, v.r. p Festuca sciuroides, f.
Anthoxanthum odoratum, c. ‘ovina, f.
Alopecurus geniculatus P~ -ruprasie
Agrostis alba, c. ep Bromus mollis, r.
P vulgaris, r. Lolium perenne, r.
p Aira caryophyllea, f. Pteris Aquilina, v.c.
Pp ‘pfaecox, Cc. H Blechnum spicant
Holcus lanatus, c. p Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum,
Arrhenatherum avenaceum, r. Vrs
p Cynosurus cristatus, v.r. marinum, f.
P Dactylis glomerata, r. Athyrium Filix-foemina, r.
Poa annua, c. Lastrea Filix-mas, r.
P pratensis, f. dilatata, r.
P trivialis, r. Polypodium vulgare, r.
In addition, a few stunted trees remain where they were
planted near the house—Ash, Sycamore, Poplar, and
Hawthorn ; and in the former garden, the Great Periwinkle,
Daffodils, a tall Arum, and a large Allium still hold their
own against forests of nettles.
As regards the question of change in flora consequent
on the human abandonment of the island, interest centres
on the plants found by Hart, but not seen by me, and vice-
versa. Of the 60 species included in the latter category,
I do not doubt that almost all of them are old inhabitants
of the island. It must be remembered that Hart’s visit
was much more hurried than mine, and many plants must
have been passed over. The only species which is clearly
a new-comer is Artemisia vulgaris, of which a single plant
was seen not much above spray-level, and below every-
thing but maritime vegetation, in a rock-chink at the
exposed southern point of the island—a clear case of a recent
arrival, possibly brought from the adjoining mainland
(where it is frequent) on a bird’s foot or feathers, since
the seeds are not fitted for wind-dispersal, and do not
float in water.
The plants seen by Hart, but not by me, demand more
consideration. I list them below in three groups, a query
signifying that they are doubtfully referable to the group
in which I have placed them.
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A.—NATIVE SPECIES—1I4.
Cardamine hirsuta. Lonicera Periclymenum.
Polygala vulgaris. Hieracium Pilosella.
? Viola tricolor. Leontodon autumnalis.
? Geranium dissectum. Jasione montana.
? Trifolium pratense. Erythraea pulchella.
Vicia Cracca. Carex echinata.
Lathyrus pratensis. Blechnum Spicant.
B.—INTRODUCED WEEDS—1r4.
Fumaria officinalis. Veronica agrestis.
Raphanus Raphanistrum. ? Stachys palustris.
Spergula arvensis. S. arvensis.
Anthemis Cotula. Lamium purpureum.
Chrysanthemum segetum. L. amplexicaule.
? Senecio vulgaris. Chenopodium album.
Linaria Elatine. Euphorbia Helioscopia.
C.—? ERRONEOUSLY RECORDED—2.
Chenopodium rubrum. Euphorbia Paralias.
Negative evidence is dangerous. Nevertheless, in con-
sideration of the long and close scrutiny which I was able
to give to the island, I have no doubt that many of these
are now extinct, nor is there any cause for wonder in this.
As regards Group A, the increase of both gulls and rabbits
has so altered the vegetation that the only wonder is that
so little change has to be recorded. Some of them may
still exist in the close-cropped turf, but they will probably
soon have entirely disappeared, since the rabbits do not
let them seed.
Group B consists mostly of weeds of tilled land. Most
of these are certainly extinct, the hard close-cropped turf
which now covers the former tillage offering them no chance
of life.
As regards Group C, I cannot but think there are mistakes
here. Chenopodium rubrum is recorded as growing “ indispu-
tably native, in characteristic abundance
among the rabbit-holes and rocky ground at the barren
1913. PRAEGER.—Phanerogamia of Saltees. 189
south-eastern corner of the island.” No trace of the plant
could be found, but a laciniate-leaved Atriplex was abun-
dant in the situations indicated. As regards E. Paralias,
there is no suitable habitat on the island, and I fear some
confusion with stations on the mainland, where it is
abundant ; or perhaps Paralias is a slip for Peplus.
Turning to the difficult question of the standing of the
plants composing the flora of the Great Saltee, we have
first a small group of species deliberately introduced. These
include, in addition to the trees and garden plants referred
to on p. 187, four naturalized species, namely :—
Brassica Rapa. Symphytum officinale.
Ulex europaeus. Sambucus nigra.
Of these, the Rape is abundant on old earth fences with
thistles and nettles, and seems destined to remain; the
Comfrey has settled down near the house ; the two bushes
have spread, though to no great extent, from their original
position in fences.
Next comes a large group of species which are probably
not indigenous to the island. Most of them have pre-
sumably come with farm seeds; others possibly on the
feet of cattle or men, or with the various materials imported
by man. A few of them appear to be already extinct, as
listed above ; others are now on the verge of extinction.
I list these below, bracketing those not seen by me, adding
a query to species which may after all be indigenous, and
adding to each its relative abundance :—
Ranunculus parviflorus, v.r. Conium maculatum, r.
Fumaria confusa, v.r. Sherardia arvensis, v.r.
(F. officinalis). (Anthemis Cotula).
Sinapis arvensis, v.r. (Chrysanthemum segetum).
(Raphanus Raphanistrum). Tussilago Farfara, r.
Stellaria media, c. (Senecio vulgaris).
(Spergula arvensis). Arctium minus, fF.
Alchemilla arvensis, Carduus pycnocephalus,
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Carduus arvensis, C. (Lamium purpureum).
Lapsana communis, V.r. (L. amplexicaule).
Sonchus arvensis, r. Plantago major, fr.
Anagallis arvensis, f. (Chenopodium album).
(Linaria Elatine). Polygonum Persicaria, v.r.
Veronica hederaefolia, v.r. (Euphorbia Helioscopia).
(V. agrestis). Urtica dioica, c.
V. Tournefortil, v.r. U. urens, fr.
V. arvensis, r. Lemna minor, Fr.
(Stachys palustris). Bromus mollis, r.
(S. arvensis). Lolium perenne, rf.
It will be seen that out of 38 species, only four—Sféellaria
media, Carduus arvensis, Anagallis arvensis, and Urtica
dioica, occur otherwise than sparingly ; clearly the intro-
duced flora is in a bad way.
These 38 species, plus the four already mentioned as
planted and naturalized, give a total of 42 species to be
deducted from the total list if we wish to obtain the present
indigenous flora of the Great Saltee. That total is thus
155, less an indefinite number of the species in list “A,”
on page 188, the 14 native or probably native plants
recorded by Hart, but not seen by me, some of which |
believe to be extinct. If we assume half of them to be now
extinct, we have an indigenous flora of 148, or a total flora
(excluding the planted trees and garden plants on p. 187)
of I90 species.
I close with a few notes on individual species, with
reference to points not brought out in the preceding pages.
Ranunculus parviflorus, L.—Fine specimens gathered by R. M, Barring-
ton are in the National Herbarium. Mr. Barrington and I refound
it, growing very small, in close turf in several spots by the sea below
the house.
R. Ficaria, L.—Still flowering in mid-June, even on open southern
slopes, with Hydrocotyle vulgaris and Carex arenaria.
Erodium cicutarium, L’Hérit.—One colony on the beach at “‘ The Ring,”’
all with white flowers.
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Rubus.—Two Brambles occur on the island, both in several places. Rev.
E. F. Linton has kindly identified them for meas R. leucostachys,
Schleich, and R. nemoralis, P. J. Muell.
Arctium and Atriplex.—One Burdock and two Oraches occur, but were
much too immature for determination. I have no reason for not
accepting Hart’s names.
Orchis inearnata, L.—The only orchid on the island. Canon Lett found
one specimen close to the house on its west side, and Dr. Lindner
another on the south-east.
Scilla nutans, 1.—Exceedingly abundant and luxuriant. On one stem
I counted 49 blossoms.
Lemna minor, L.—Occurred in one artificial pool, but also twice in a
quite different habitat—on the S.W. side, where springs emerge
from the rocks half way down the cliffs. Here the plant grew in
dense tufts on wet vertical or sloping rocks. Possibly brought by
birds from its other station, but quite established, and looking native
in these curious situations.
Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum, L.—Seen only in an artificial habitat—
the stone-faced dyke by the “‘ road ”’ leading from the house towards
the cliffs ; but probably from wind-borne spores.
I have pursued the subject of the present paper at greater
length than the flora of a small island might seem to warrant ;
but in the Great Saltee we have a very interesting case of
change of flora due to the withdrawal of man and consequent
changes of fauna. How far these changes have now ceased,
and the flora restored to a state of equilibrium, is not easy
to say. The vegetation of the untilled land and the bird-
colonies is possibly stable, so long as the present fauna
remains stable ; but I think it probable that the vegetation
of the ground formerly occupied by tillage is still developing
and has not yet reached stability. Potentilla Anserina,
Carex arenaria, Sagina procunbens and the other abundant
plants kave still to fight it out among themselves, and
possibly all will eventually be ousted by grasses. When
twenty years hence some other botanist studies the flora
of the island, I hope these notes will help him to furnish a
further study of the development of the flora.
National Library, Dublin.
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II. MOSSES AND HEPATICS.
BY REV. CANON H. W. LETT, M.A.
The Muscineae collected in June, 1913, on the Great
Saltee Island number 74 Mosses and 20 Hepatics, all of
which are common. Unlike the habit of these plants in
most parts of Ireland, I noticed that on this island they
were all very scarce, and the colonies or tufts were invari-
ably very small. This peculiarity I attribute to the presence
of the multitudes of sea-birds and Rabbits which hold
possession of the island. The Herring Gulls occupy every
outcrop of rock or stone, their nests or hatching spots being
everywhere in the large area covered by the forests of Péeris
Aquilina, and they prevent any mosses growing except in
odd crevices and corners, their excrement and the constant
trampling of their webbed feet being inimical to the existence
or spread of cryptogams. The Rabbits also, by their
burrowing in the earthen portions of the fences of what
were some years ago cultivated fields, do not permit Mosses
or Hepatics to fix themselves in what in other localities
are favourite habitats of these plants. The dry-built
stone walls which form a portion of these dividers of the
land are kept free of Mosses by the birds which use them
as look-out stations and resting places while they are
devouring such Rabbits as they may capture ; the relics
of such feasts are noticeable in the quantities of fur and
bones left along the tops of these wall-fences.
At the south-west end of the island there is a large wide
space close to the rocky margin of the sea where the Puffins
do not allow a rush-spear or blade of grass to exist, the
earth, which is black, being quite bare of vegetation, and
there are several similar bare spots in other places on the
island ; of course, not a scrap of a Moss or Hepatic grows
in such deserts. On the other hand, all round the margin,
especially on the north-west side, there are spots few and
far between where the banks of clay and rocks are either
almost perpendicular or where they overhang, and there
the birds and beasts cannot rest or nest; these were the
1913. Lerr.—fosses and Hepatics of Saltees. 193
only places on the island where I found Mosses and
Hepatics having a look of undisturbed nature about them.
With a shore on which there is no sandy or even pebbly
strand, and where there are great rocks and accumulations
of large boulders out of the reach of the tide, there are
many places where the muscologist would expect to find
Grimmias flourishing, but there are none, except one little tuft
of Grimmia apocarpa. The only species of Orthotrichum
that I found was OQ. diaphanum, of which there is a small
colony growing on one of the stunted trees in what was
the garden in front of the dwelling-house.
The unusual smallness of the few cushions of Campy-
lopus and Dicranum, which become perfectly dry when
there has been no rain, accounts for the absence of severa
Hepatics that elsewhere abound in such companionship.
Only one colony of Sphagnum was met with (by Mr.
Praeger), it is near the west end of the island, where two
species are comparatively abundant over a few square
yards, these were the only patches of moss of any size that
I saw.
My notes and specimens show that the Mosses and Hepa-
tics of most frequent occurrence were in this order :
MossEs. HEPATICS.
1. Hypnum praelongum. 1. Lophocolea bidentata.
2. Barbula fallax. 2. Frullania tamarisci.
3. Hypnum rutabulum. 3. F. dilatata.
4. Mnium hornum. 4. Scapania undulata.
5. Stereodon resupinatus. 5. Lepidozia reptans.
6. Dicranum scoparium. 6. Anthoceros punctatus.
LIST OF SPECIES.
MossEs.
[As in Braithwaite’s “‘ British Moss-Flora.’’]
Polytrichum aloides. Ditrichum flexicaule.
sexangulare. tortile.
piliferum. Dicranella curvata.
juniperinum. heteromalla.
Fissidens viridulus. Auisothecium rubrum.
bryoides. var. tenellum.
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Campylopus pyriformis.
fragilis.
flexuosus.
vay. paradoxus.
Dicranum scoparium.
var. alpestre.
Ceratodon purpureum.
Tortula muralis.
montana.
cylindrica vay. vinealis.
Mollia viridula.
*crispula.
litoralis.
brachydontia.
flavovirens.
inclinata.
fragilis.
Barbula rubella.
fallax.
cylindrica.
revoluta.
convoluta.
unguiculata.
Grimmia apocarpa.
Glyphomitrium polyphyllum.
Orthotrichum diaphanum.
Bryum intermedium.
Octcber,
Bryum erythrocarpum.
Mnium hornum.
Thuidium tamariscifolium.
Amblystegium serpens.
riparium.
chrysophyllum.
polygamum.
falcatum.
fluitans.
kneiffii.
Hypnum purum.
cespitosum.
murale.
velutinum.
pallidirostre.
praelongum.
curvisetum.
confertum.
viride.
rutabulum.
sericeum.
lutescens.
TIsothecium ‘myosuroides.
Hylocomium parietinum.
squarrosum.
Stereodon cupressiforme.
var. elatus.
cespiticium. resupinatum.
murale. Acrocladium cuspidatum.
capillare. Sphagnum cymbifolium.
pendulum. acutifolium.
HEPATICS.
[As in Macvicar’s ‘“‘ Handbook of British Hepatics.’’]
Anthoceros punctatus.
Metzgeria furcata.
Aneura multifida.
sinuata.
incurvata.
Pellia epiphylla.
Frullania tamarisci.
dilatata.
Scapania undulata.
Lepidozia reptans.
Loughbrickland, Co. Down.
Lophocolea bidentata.
Lophozia alpestris.
bicrenata.
barbata.
porphyroleuca.
ventricosa.
Aplozia crenulata.
Saccogyna viticulosa.
Calypogeia trichomanis.
Cephalozia teucantha.
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Il]. MARINE ALGAE.
Bx A, D. COLTON,
The collection of marine algae made by Mr. Praeger on
the Saltees, supplies a substantial addition to our knowledge
of the marine flora of S.E. Ireland. According to the
scheme devised by Adams, the islands come under the sub-
province of Li of Leinster, and the list for that region was
poorer than for any other sub-division of Leinster or Munster
(see I.N., vol. xx., I9g1I, p. 87). The total number of
species hitherto listed was 63 (Cyanophyceae 2, Chloro-
phyceae 11, Phoeophyceae 18, Florideae 32). The total
number collected by Mr. Praeger is 120, the groups being
represented as under :—Blue Green 1, Green 17, Brown 39,
Red 63. The collection, as a whole, was such as one would
expect from the south of Ireland, though the fact that some
of the more important and interesting of the Irish species
are not represented is significant, and emphasizes the need
of further work.
With regard to the nature of the shore and the vegetation
covering it, Mr. Praeger writes :—‘‘ Most of the collecting
was done in a limited area at either end of the island, where,
at the junction of the cliffs of the southern side with the
beach of large angular boulders of the northern side, there
are a number of gulleys and rock-pools. The * Reds’ were
mostly obtained at the landing place half-way along the
north side, where drifted material had collected. Exposure
is rather great on the cliff-bound southern face, much less
on the north side. At the two ends, where collecting was
done, Alaria and Ascophyllum overlap in about equal
quantity. On the boulder-beach Fuci cover the whole
shore, with plenty of Ascophyllum. Alaria is dominant
under the cliffs of the south side.”
A fairly large proportion of the collection consisted of
species requiring sheltered conditions. These had probably
drifted from the neighbouring Zostera beds on the main-
land. Several notably ‘‘ exposed ” species such as Nema-
lion, Cladophora uncialis and the northern Callithamnion
196 The Lrish Naturalist. October,
arbuscula or southern C. granulatum were not represented,
but this may be perhaps due to the more exposed spots
being less accessible. The presence of Alaria and Asco-
phyllum together is particularly interesting. As a rule,
Alaria (except for odd plants in pools) occurs on exposed
and rather steep shores, whereas Ascophyllum requires
shelter and prefers sloping rocks or boulders. Presumably |
the peculiar physical nature of the shore at the ends of the
island provides in a combined form the conditions essential
for each species, namely, the ruffled well-aerated water
required by Alaria and the protection from breakers neces-
sary for Ascophyllum.
Amongst interesting species, attention may be drawn to
Prasiola crispa, Chantransta Chylocladiae, and Pterost-
phonia parasitica, notes on which will be found in the list.
As to absentees, although a special look-out was kept for
Codium mucronatum var. atlanticum, Callithammon granu-
latum, C. arbuscula, and Ptilota plumosa, none of these
species were found. The last two boreal plants are supposed
to occur in the south of Ireland; I have, however, seen no
specimens, and it is highly desirable to have the records
confirmed. Halopithys pinastroides, which is only kncwn
in Ireland from Leinster, was also not collected.
In addition to dried specimens, a packet of fresh weeds
which had been soaked in ro per cent. formalin was for-
warded. These remained in excellent condition for several
days ,and illustrated the value of this method of sending
fresh material through the post.
The following is a complete list of species collected :—
LIST OF SPECIES.
CYANOPHYCEAE,
Hyella caespitosa Born. In Spirorbis in Phyllophora rubens.
CHLOROPHYCEAE,
Prasiola crispa Menegh.—‘‘ Common 50 feet, nor higher, I think, than
on the’ rocks at the S:W- end 150 feet??* “PA wey’ P.]:/ ? ee
amongst the bird colonies. I markably fine specimens, and
did not see it lower than about much larger than anything
1913.
found on Clare Island or The
Bills. This alga is capable of
absorbing large quantities of
ammonia, and _ occasionally
occurs on the filter beds in
sewage farms, where it attains
an equally large size. Under
these conditions, however, it is
supplied with abundant mois-
ture, growing at times directly
under the sprinklers. The
Saltees material showed every
transition from the filamentous
form to the broad leafy thallus.
Enteromorpha clathrata J. Ag.
compressa Gvev.
Linza J. Ag.
Corron.—Marine Algae of Saltees.
197
Enteromorpha
intestinalis Link.
Ulva Latuca L.
Endoderma Wittrockii Wille. In
Ectocarpus fasciculatus.
Chaetomorpha aerea Kiitz.
Cladophora Hutchinsiae Harv.
rupestris Kitz.
sericea Kiitz.
albida Kitz.
var. refracta Kutz.
arcta Kiitz.
lanosa Kitz.
Ostreobium Quekettii Born. et Flah.
—In Spirorbis on Phyllo-
phora rubens.
Codium tomentosum Stackh.
PHOEOPHYCEAE.
Desmarestia viridis Lamour.
aculeata Lamour.
ligulata Lamour.
Dictyosiphon foeniculaceus Grev.
Litosiphon pusillum Harv.
Laminariae Harv.
Phloeospora brachiata Born.
Scytosiphon lomentarius J. Ag
Asperococcus fistulosus Hook.
Ectocarpus simplex Crvn.—In Codium
tomentosum.
siliculosus Kiztz.
fasciculatus Harv.
tomentosus Lyngb.
granulosus Ag.
Pylaiella litoralis A72llm.
Isthmoplea sphaerophora Ajellm.
Myriotrichia clavaeformis Harv.
Elachista fucicola Fries.
Sphacelaria cirrhosa Ag.
Cladostephus spongiosus dg.
verticillatus Ag.
Myrionema strangulans Grev.
Hecatonema reptans Kylin.—
Second record for Ireland.
Microspongium globosum Reinke.—
Second record for Ireland.
Chordaria flagelliformis Ag.
Leathesia tuberiformis Aresch.
Laminaria saccharina Lamour.
digitata Lamour.
Cloustoni Edm.
Alaria esculenta Grev.
Fucus spiralis L.
vesiculosus L.
serratus L.
Ascophyllum nodosum Le Jol.—The
marine fungus Mycosphaerella
Ascophylli, Cotton, was present
in all the receptacles of Asco-
phyllum forwarded. It doubt-
less occurs around the whole
Irish coast, but has only been
recorded from the Clare Island
district.
Pelvetia canaliculata Decne. et Thur.
Himanthalia lorea Lyngb.
Halidrys siliquosa Lyngb.
Cystoseira granulata Ag.
Dicytota dichotoma Lamour.
FLORIDEAE.
Conchocelis rosea Batt.—In Spir-
orbis on Phyllophora rubens.
Porphyra umbilicalis Kvtz.
198
Chantransia virgatula Thur.
Chylocladiae (Batt.) Adams.—The
second record for Ireland. The
plant, which was added to the
Irish list during the Lambay
survey, was not found on Clare
Island, though _ repeatedly
searched for.
Choreocolax polysiphoniae Reinsch.
Gelidium corneum Lamour.
Chondrus crispus Stackh.
Gigartina mamillosa J. Ag.
Phyllophora rubens Gvev.
Ahnfeltia plicata Fr.
Sterrocolax decipiens Schm.
Callophyllis laciniata Kitz.
Callocolax neglectus Schm.
Cystoclonium purpurascens K7iz.
Calliblepharbis jubata [x7tz.
Rhodymenia palmata Grev.
Lomentaria articulata J. Ag.
clavellosa Gaiill.
Chylocladia kaliformis Hook.
ovalis Hook.
Plocamium coccineum Lyngb.
Nitophyllum punctatum Grev.
laceratum Grev.
Delesseria sinuosa Lamour.
sanguinea Lamour.
alata Lamour.
ruscifolia Lamour.
hypoglossum Lamour.
Rhodomela subfusca Ag.
Laurencia obtusa Lamour.
hybrida Lenorm.
Polysiphonia urceolata Gy2v.
violacea Grev.
fastigiata Grev.
atro-rubescens Gvev.
Brodiaei Grev.
Pterosiphonia parasitica Schm.—A
single specimen, apparently re-
presenting a remarkably robust
form of this species, was for-
Royal Gardens. Kew.
The lrish Naturalist.
October,
warded. The plant was fully
as stout as P. pennata (which
is known as far north as Nor-
mandy) but differed in habit,
the outline of the fronds re-
sembling more closely those of
P. parasitica. In microscopic
structure it agrees well with
that species. I submitted the
specimen to Mr. E. M. Holmes,
who agrees that unless further
distinctions are forthcoming one
cannot do otherwise than regard
it as an exceptionally strong
form of P. parasitica.
thuyoides Schmitz.
Brongniartella byssoides Bory.
Heterosiphonia coccinea Falk.
Spermothamnion Turneri Avesch.
Griffithsia setacea Ag.
Monospora pedicellata Sol.
Rhodochorton Rothii Naeg.
Callithamnion Hookeri Ag.
tetragonum Ag.
Plumaria elegans Schm.
Ceramium strictum Harv.
diaphanum foth.
Boergesenii Petersen.
rubrum Ag.
ciliatum Ducluz.
Gloiosiphonia capillaris Carm.—
Rather rare on Clare Island,and
only noted during July, 1909.
Dumontia filiformis Grev.
Dilsea edulis Stackh.
Furcellaria fastigiata Lamour.
Hildenbrandtia prototypus Nardo.
Lithophyllum pustulatum Fos.
incrustans Phil.
lichenoides Ellis.
Epilithon membranaceum Heydr.
Corallina officinalis L.
squamata Ellis.
rubens Ellis et Sond.
-
1913. KNowLEs.—Lichens of Saltees. 199
IV. LICHENS.
BY M. C. KNOWLES,
The Lichens of the district Lr of Mr. Adams’ sub-
divisions of Ireland (which consists of the counties of
Wexford, Carlow and Kilkenny), have received very little
attention, only 31 species having been recorded from this
area. It was a great satisfaction, therefore, to go through
the material collected by Canon Lett and Mr. Praeger on
the Saltee Islands, and to find that the majority of the
species were additions to the district.
Altogether the material yielded 86 species, 5 sub-species,
7 varieties and 5 forms; of these, 75 species and all the
sub-species, varieties and forms are new to Lt.
In the list which follows, all but the undermentioned are
new to Adams’ province Lr :—
Lichina pygmaea. Physcia stellaris.
Sphaerophorus coralloides. Lecanora parella.
Cladonia pyxidata. Lecidea parasema.
Cladina sylvatica. Buellia stellulata.
Ramalina farinacea. Acrocordia biformis.
Physcia parietina.
LIsT OF SPECIES.
P=—Praeger; L=Lett. Where there is no letter it means that the
species was collected by both.)
P. Lichina pygmaea Ag. L. Ramalina subfarinacea.
P confinis Ag. QP. cuspidata Ny.
L. Sphaerophorus coralloides Pers. L. Curnowil Cromb.
P. Stereocaulon coralloides Fv. P. Usnea florida Ach.
Cladonia pyxidata Fr. lire hirta Hoffm.
cervicornis Schaer. Parmelia perlata Ach.
i sobolifera Nyl. . P; subsp. ciliata Nyl.
furcata Hoffm. 1 laevigata Ach.
pungens Florke. saxatilis Ach.
Cladina sylvatica Ny. jf. furfuracea Schaer.
P,. Ramalina farinacea Ach. if: sulcata Tayl.
pollinaria Ach. caperata Ach.
scopulorum. L. exasperata Ach.
200
P. Parmelia omphalodes Ach.
fuliginosa Nyl.
L. Peltigera rufescens Hoffm.
P’. polydactyla Hoffm.
The Lrish Naturalist.
October,
Lecanora fuscata Nyl.
smaragdula Ny.
Lecidea granulosa Schaer.
protrusa Fy.
Physcia flavicans DC. ia parasema Ach.
parietina De Not. elaeochroma .4ch.
kL. var. aureola Nyl. se latypea Ach.
Pr, vay. aureola Nyl. f. con- P. panaeola Ach.
gratulata Cromb. ip auriculata Th. Fr.
aquilla Nyl. L. Biatorina synothea Koerb. subsp.
Pe stellaris Nyl. nigrata A. L. Sm.
i subsp. tenella Ny. P. chalybeia Mudd.
P. Lecanora murorum Ach. Bacidia umbrina Branth et Rostr.
L. subsp. decipiens Nyl. Buellia canescens De Not.
P; lobulata Somm. L. spuria Koerb.
L. vitellina Ach. L. myriocarpa Mudd.
Be: citrina Ach. f. depauperata L. verruculosa Mudd.
Cromb. stellulata Mudd.
ferruginea Nyl. var. festiva L. colludens Tuckerm.
Nyl. P. confervoides Krempl.
P: caesiorufa Nyl. P. Rhizocarpon alboatrum Th. Fr.
LL; Turneriana Nyl. P; var. venustum A. L. Sm.
P2 sophodes Ach. lis geographicum DC.
QP: subsp. levigata Ny. confervoides DC.
bs exigua Ny. P. Arthonia radiata Ach.
Pe subexigua Ny. rs varians Nyl.
‘Ee atrocinerea Nyl. Opegrapha atra Pers.
subfusca Ny. L. f. parallela Leight.
campestris. calcarea Turn.
P: rugosa Nyl. f. heteromorpha.
P atrynea Nyl. vulgata Ach.
coilocarpa Ny. Enterographa crassa Fe.
gangalioides Nyl. P. Verrucaria maura Wahlenb.
P; albella Ach. P, vay. memnonia /oerb.
prosechoides Nyl. P. scotina Wedd.
atra Ach. nigrescens Pers.
parella Ach. L. Acrocordia biformis Oliv.
B. pallescens Nyl. P. vay. conformis da. L. Sm.
es cinerea Somm. Porina chlorotica Wainio.
NOTES.
Ramalina pollinaria, Ach.—Abundant, but infertile ;
now recorded from the east coast of Ireland for the first
time.
Usnea hirta, Hoffm.—The thallus of some of the specimens
of this species was covered with cephalodia.
1913. KNOWLES.—Lichens of Saltees. 201
Physcia flavicans, DC.—Very common, forming large
orange-yellow patches on the stems and twigs of heather,
associated with Ramalina farinacea, Parmelia perlata and
P. caperata.
Lecanora murorum, Ach., subsp. deciAiens, Nyl.—The
specimens seen of this sub-species were mainly barren
growths similar to those found at Howth. This is the
second Irish record for the sub-species.
L. caesiorufa and L. Turnerrana, Nyl.—kRare ; the only
previous record for these two species from the east coast is
Howth.
L. subexigua, Nyl.-—Frequent; the second record for
Ireland.
L. prosechoides, Nyl.—Frequent. This species was asso-
ciated with Verrucaria maura, V. scotina, Rhizocarpon
alboatrum, and Lecanora lobulata, and evidently occupied the
same place on the shore, among the semi-marine lichens, that
it does on the Howth coasts. It was also interesting, as on
the Howth coasts, to find that it was the host of Arthonia
varians. The usual host of this parasitic lichen is, according
to the “‘ Monograph of British Lichens,” Lecanora glaucoma,
and it only rarely occurs on L. prosechoides. On the Howth
coasts A. varians was extremely abundant on L. prose-
choides, and it is also plentiful on the specimens examined
from the Saltee Islands.
Lecidea latypea, Ach.—Rare; the only previous Irish
record for this species is Clare Island.
L. auriculata, Th. Fr.—Rare; the only previous Irish
record is Achill.
Biatorina synothea, Koerb., |
subsp. nigrata, A. L. Sm. |
B. chalybeia, Mudd. | These seven species have
Bacidia umbrina, Branth. andj been recorded only
Rostr. + from one other locality
Buellia spuria, Koerb. | on the east coast, viz.
B. verruculosa, Mudd. : Howth.
B. colludens, Tuckerm. |
B. confervoides, Krempl. J
202 The Trish Naturalist. October,
Verrucaria scotina, Wedd.—Rare; the second Irish record.
Porina chlorotica, Wainio.—This species was very abun-
dant on rather smooth shady rock-surfaces, and was asso-
clated with Lecidea protrusa, Rhizocarpon confervoides and
Lecanora atra. » It grows in similar situations at Howth
which is the only other locality on the east coast from
which it has been recorded.
National Museum, Dublin.
NOTES.
BOTANY,
Forgers of Nature’s Signature.
Under the title of ‘‘ An Excellent Suggestion,” a letter appears in the
Northern Whig of September 6, advocating the scattering of the seeds of
garden plants in bare spots in the country. We have on more than one
occasion pointed out the grave wrong wrought by any thoughtless intro-»
ducer of either plants or animals, and the confusion to which this practice
tends to lead in the records of both zoology and: botany. We are glad
to note that in the present instance the suggestion—made possibly in
ignorance of the results of such action—was promptly met by vigorous
protests from two of our most active and useful northern naturalists—
N. H. Foster and A. W. Stelfox.
ZOOLOGY.
Two Beetles from Co. Louth.
On July 24th, Mrs. Johnson and I made an expedition to Carlingford
in search of insects. These proved to be decidedly scarce. However, by
turning stones on the shore I obtained specimens of two beetles which
have not hitherto been recorded from Co. Louth. These are Czllenus
lateralis Sam, and Micralymma brevipennis Gyll. ; both species occurred
between tide marks. Cillenus was quite scarce (I only got four), and I
believe it was only emerging as I saw several larva which I strongly suspect
were those of this beetle. Micralymma, on the other hand was pretty
plentiful, and I could have got a large series if I had wished.
W. F. JOHNSON.
Poyntzpass.
1913. Notes. 203
Longicorn at Poyntzpass.
A fine specimen of Rhagium bifasciatum Fab., was given me on June
23rd by Miss M. T. Alexander, who had found it sitting on the window
sill of the library in Acton House. This is the second record of a longicorn
from County Armagh, the other being my own of Pogonochaerus bidenta-
tus Thorus, at Loughgall. There are plenty of fir trees about here, but
the remarkable thing is that so conspicuous a beetle should have escaped
notice.
W. F. JOHNSON.
Poyntzpass.
Notes on Irish Myriapoda—A Correction.
I regret to say that the record in my paper (ante, p. 130), of Julus scandt-
navicus, Latzel, as new to Ireland, was an error. I. scandinavicus is
synonymous with I. Jugulifer, Latzel-Verhoeff, and I had already recorded
it under the latter name in the Clare Island Survey reports.
W. F. JOHNSON.
Poyntzpass.
IRISH SOCIETIES.
ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Recent gifts include a pair of American Bison from the Canadian
Government, a pair of four-horned Sheep from Lady Constance Butler,
a pair of Rabbits from Mr. W. E. Anderson, a Black and White Lemur
from Mrs. Dunville, a Capuchin Monkey from Mr. T. C. Dickie, two
Touracous from Miss Waterhouse, a Blue-fronted Amazon from Miss
F. Lewis, a ring-necked Parrakeet from Miss Irvine, and a Slow-worm
from Mr. H. S. Mostyn. Three Puma cubs have been born in the
gardens. It is very many years since Bison have been on view in the
Dublin collection. The splendid pair of animals generously given by
the Dominion Government come from the great park at Banff, where
a large herd is protected under natural conditions.
BELFAST NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB.
JuLty 12.—ExcurRsIOoN To DuBLIN.—Travelling to Dublin by the 7.30
train, the party first went to Glasnevin Gardens, where they were received
by Sir F. W. Moore and Mr. C. F. Ball, and conducted through the exten-
sive grounds and houses. Proceeding to the Zoological Gardens, they
lunched there, and were then conducted round the collections by Prof.
G. H. Carpenter and Dr. B. B. Ferrar. The 6.0 train conveyed the party
back to Belfast,
204 The lrish Naturaiist. October, 1913.
REVIEWS.
THE STUDY OF ROCKS.
A Manual of Petrology. By F. P. MENNELL, F.G.S. London: Chapman
and, Hall, 19013.) Pp. vii 256." ~ Price 7s. 160:
This clearly written and well printed work is an enlargement of the
author’s ‘‘ Introduction to Petrology,’ published in 1909. Like its
predecessor, it introduces the student to a wider area of observation than
is usual in such text-books, since the author’s experience has been largely
gathered in the open-air study of rocks in southern Africa. That is
outlook is by no means restricted will be seen by his description and
illustration of the rhyolites of the county of Antrim on p. 133, and of the
altered chalk of Scawt Hill on p. 202.
The introductory chapters on rock-forming minerals are of necessity
slight, but form an important adjunct for those who have to limit their
libraries when travelling, or in the prospector’s camp. ‘The serious
student will want to know a little more of the relations of the optical pheno-
mena that are utilised in thin slices under the microscope to the forms of
minerals studied. On p. 16 it is implied that an ordinary ray arises in
all cases of double refraction ; and on p. 15 the danger of relying on mean
refractive indices is not pointed out. In the descriptions of such im-
portant minerals as quartz, tourmaline, and calcite, we should like to
find some reference to their different types of trigonal symmetry. The
statement that the two former are hexagonal, and that calcite is rhombo-
hedral is surely somewhat out of date. As usually happens in petro-
graphic works, the microscopic characters of minerals are relied on almost
exclusively. Even in the case of muscovite (p. 52), the mention of
straight extinction shows that the forms seen in thin sections are being
considered, and not those so easily recognised in the field. Tourmaline
(p. 70) is stated to be transparent ; but few geologists will note this
character when hammering at common crystals of schorl. In this treat-
ment, Mr. Mennell has followed what is customary, rather than his own
good advice given later on p. 82.
It is not of much avail to quarrel with the names for rocks that have
received acceptance through the profound authority of Rosenbusch,
but a “‘ glassy granophyre”’ (p. 131), instead of a “‘ vitrophyre,” seems
an undue defiance of Vogelsang, the inventor of the term. To pass from
such details, there is much that is unconventional in the author’s discus-
sion of types of rocks. We welcome his treatment of assimilation by
igneous masses, of the origin of the much discussed banded ironstones
(p. 192), and especially of contact-metamorphism on a regional scale
(p. 204). The book concludes with a good review of the geological aspects
of radioactivity
ee RE ag ey
IrisH Naturacist, Voc. XXII.] [EV ArEt,
CLUBIONA JUVENIS SIMON.
To face page 205.
November, 1913. The [rish Naturalist. 205
CLUBIONA JUVENIS SIMON.
A SPIDER NEW TO THE BRITISH ISLES RECENTLY FOUND
IN. IRELAND.
BY A. RANDELL JACKSON, M.D, D.S€.
AND DENIS R. PACK-BERESFORD, B.A., M.R.I.A.
In June, r911, Mr Reynell Pack-Beresford collected a
few spiders on the sandhills at Arklow, Co. Wicklow, amongst
which we found three females belonging to the genus
Clubiona, but of which the species was unknown to us.
On submitting these specimens to Professor Kulczynski, of
Cracow, he said that they were also unknown to him, but
suggested that they might possibly be Clubiona juvenis
Simon. In order to clear up this point it was necessary to
try to get some adult males, and accordingly a further expedi-
tion to Arklow, in which Mr. R. Pack-Beresford joined, was
made this year on June 22nd with this object in view.
After working for about an hour and a half amongst the
sand-hills along the sea-shore, three males and some five
or six females were captured, besides many immature
specimens of various ages. They live in the densest parts
of the tufts of grass on the sandhills, and run rapidly over
the sand when disturbed. A few specimens of Clubtona
neglecta Camb. were also taken at the same time and place.
A comparison of these three males with M. Simon’s
description and Dr. de Lessert’s figures made it quite
clear that Professor Kulczynski’s surmise was correct, and
that the spiders were referable to the species described
by M. Simon as Clubiona juvenis. With this conclusion
the Rev. O. P. Cambridge, who has examined a pair of the
specimens, agrees. Our collecting was brought to an
abrupt ending by the arrival on the scene of an employé
of Messrs. Kynoch, who told us that we were on ground
strictly forbidden to the public, as we were amongst the huts
in which explosives are stored. Unfortunately the manager
of the works could not be found on the moment, and the
time at our disposal did not admit of a search being made
for him, otherwise we should no doubt have been able to
get permission to continue our investigations ; as it was,
we had to be content with the results already attained.
A
206 The lrish Naturalist. November,
Clubiona juvenis is described by M. Simon in “ Les
Arachnides de France,” vol. iv., pp. 227 and 228. No
figures are given. Dr. R. de Lessert, however, figures
the sexual organs of both sexes in his “‘ Catalogue des
Invertébrés de la Suisse,” fasc. 3, Araignées, pp. 411 and 412.
Nevertheless we think a few additional remarks may help
British students to recognise this species when found.
Length.—Two males measured respectively 3:7 mm. and
4:6mm., whilst two females measured 5-6 mm.,and 5-7 m.m.
Form.—Both sexes are of a slender rather linear build.
Colour.—In living specimens this appears very pale,
some examples being almost white with dark heads.
Carapace vellow-brown with a short longitudinal line at the
thoracic juncture,and some dark pigment in the oculararea.
Sternum yellow-brown. Legs and female palpi pale yellow-
brown. Falces, maxillae, and labium usually deep red-
-brown, the first being the most deeply pigmented. Abdomen
usually yellow-brown, in one case however it was of a
warmer shade approaching red-brown.
Spines.—M. Simon divides the genus Clubiona for the
purposes of identification into two sections, viz., those in
which the third tibiae bear each two spines beneath, and
those in which only one spine is present in this situation.
No doubt this is a variable feature, but all the British
Clubionae we have hitherto seen have been quite regular
in this respect. This is not however the case with C.
quvenis. SiX specimens were examined and of these two
spines were present in two cases, one spine in two cases,
and in the remaining two, one spine was present. on one
side, and two on the other. This character thus breaks
down in the present species.
Male palpus.—Femur and patella pale yellow-brown lke
the legs. The tibia bears a long broad apophysis of a deep
red-brown colour. This terminates on the outer side in
two branches. Of these the anterior or superior is large,
strong, and obliquely truncated at the extremity. The
posterior or inferior branch (Plate 1, figs. 1, 3, a,) 1s very
small, and projects almost at right angles to the body of
the apophysis. It is almost invisible in an external elevation
but seen from above appears to look downwards and back-
1913. JACKSON & BERESFORD.—C/ubiona juvents. 207
wards. It seems almost absurd to describe it as a branch
of the apophysis, but it appears to represent the similarly
placed, but much better developed and differently shaped
inferior branch seen in such species as C. Jlutescens
Westr., C. terrestris Westr, and C. neglecta Camb. The
palpal organs are very characteristic, and are shown from
below in figure 3.
Epigyne.—Greyish yellow-brown except for two circular
pigmented areas at the anterior end, which are yellower.
They are in contact with one another in the middle line.
On the outer side of each of these is a dark gibbous promi-
nence more deeply pigmented than the rest of the vulva.
These are best visible from the outer sides. Posteriorly
the epigyne is prolonged backwards and has its posterior
border truncated. Usually the truncated border shows
an indentation in the middle. This, however, is very
variable in depth, sometimes it is very marked, at others
hardly discernible. |The posterior part of the epigyne
bears in the centre a deep depression of a somewhat straight
sided oval shape.
Clubiona juvents Simon is very distinct from all its
British congeners. In size it most nearly resembles C.
trivtalts L. Koch, but is usually rather longer and narrower
than that species. Most specimens have a more or less
parallel-sided appearance. It is paler too than C. ¢trivialis,
being coloured more like C. diversa Camb. The sexual
organs of the female resemble those of the above-mentioned
species, but differ in many details and are easily recognizable.
The male palpi cannot possibly be confused with those of
any British species. This is a handsome addition to the
fauna of the British Isles; it has occurred previously in
France and Switzerland.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 1.
CLUBIONA JUVENIS, Simon.
1. Right palpus of male from outer side.
2. Right palpal tibia from above.
3. Right palpus from beneath.
4. Epigyne from below.
In the above figures a represents the inferior branch of the tibial
apophysis, and } a spine-like process at the apex. In slightly different
positions the prominence ¢ is much more marked,
A2
208 The Lish Naturalist. November,
OBSERVATIONS ON THE MOVEMENTS OF
WOODCOCK.
BY PHILIP 'D: PERCEVAL.
I started marking Woodcock here for my own information
only, as both my keeper (who has had a lifelong experience
amongst Woodcock) and myself had come to the conclusion
that we are now mainly dependent for our stock during
the shooting season on the birds that are bred here ; it is
seldom of late years that a migration of foreign birds can
be noticed as they used to be in former times. While
referring to this particular neighbourhood only and to
what has come under my own observation, I am of opinion
that the flights of foreign birds are of late years inclined
to remain more in England and the eastern counties of
Ireland than used to be the case, and that here in the west
our home-bred birds are principally to be relied on for
our stock of birds during the shooting season,
I first entertained the idea of putting rings on young
Woodcock in 1908, in order to try to get some idea as to
whether we got any, and if so, how many, relatively, of
the birds that were bred in the place. The rings that I
got that year were’ not satisfactory, as they had a tag on
them that would be likely to get caught up in grass, &c.,
and probably lead to the destruction of the young birds to
whose leg they were attached. For this reason, we did
not use any of these, and in the following year (1909), I
got rings of another make which were not very satisfactory
either, but by cutting them down and filing them, we some-
what improved them, and were able to mark 16 young
Woodcock. The following winter seven of the marked birds
were shot, all except one being got here, and that one was
got within a couple of miles from where it was ringed.
The following year (1910) I succeeded in getting a satis-
factory ring, but we were unlucky in dropping on but few
young birds, though there were plenty about, and only a
dozen had rings put on. Of these, four were shot the
following winter, as well as two ringed birds of the year
before (1909).
19 13. PERCEVAL.—Zhe Movements of Woodcock. 209
In I9II, we were again unable to catch many young
birds, and I can only account for Io rings having been put
on, and that winter we shot 3 of these birds, also one of
1909, and one of 1910, and the same season two of our IgII
birds were shot in the vicinity. One was shot close to our
mearing, and the other about 12 miles away.
Last spring (1912) was exceptionally bad for finding
young Woodcock, as the undergrowth grew up very early,
and it was nearly impossible te come across the young
birds, in spite of the fact that more Woodcock than ever
nested here. Seven birds only had rings put on, and ot
these we shot two, as well as two others having I9gII rings
on. I have not heard of any of our ringed birds having
been shot elsewhere, bevond those I have mentioned that
were shot in this neighbourhood. Others may have been
got by poachers on adjoining bits of unpreserved land
about which I should naturally hear nothing. I may sav
that in spite of the number of Woodcock that nest here,
it is always most difficult to catch the young birds,as the
undergrowth is very heavy, and if one happens to drop
across a clutch of young Woodcock, they run like mice,
and are hidden under a fern or a bunch of leaves in a
second, and are then nearly impossible to find. The only
way to deal with them is to grab what one can with both
hands, put them in the pocket, and then put the rings on
one by one, and let them go. As a rule, the first
notice one gets is to see the old bird rise up carrying one
of the young and screaming; then if quick enough one
may see the rest of the brood (usually four in all) running
in all directions for shelter, and it is not easy to get more
than one or two however quick one may be. We have
noticed that it is practically hopeless to watch a nest with
the idea of putting rings on the young birds when they
are hatched off. Often as it has been tried here, it has
never succeeded. The old bird is far too cunning, and
when she knows that her nest has been discovered, she
removes the young to a safer place directly they are hatched
off. Though we have watched nests most carefully with
a view to marking the young birds, all the satisfaction we
have ever got has been to find the eggshells some morning,
210 The Irish Naturalist. November,
and no trace of their occupants. I often wonder if this is
done in every case, or only when the old bird knows that
her nest has been discovered. 7
At the moment of writing (March 17), there appeared to
be more Woodcock in this place than there have been all
the winter. They are all paired and fly about in the even-
ings uttering the breeding note, which is quite distinct
from the “croak” they make at other seasons. These
birds we look upon as responsible for the stock we may
expect next season. I have no doubt some are nesting
already, as this is, apparently, an early season.
I have known young Woodcock hatched off the second
week of March, and three years ago I knew of a bird hatching
eggs as late as August 12th. As Woodcock mature very
rapidly I am inclined to believe that each pair rears more
than one brood in the season.
_ At “ Classiebawn,”’ Mr. W. Ashley’s place in this county,
his keepers have put rings on quite a large number of Wood-
cock during the last two or three years. They have better
facilities for finding them than we have here, as some of
the woods they nest in are less liable to heavy undergrowth,
and the birds are more easily found. They put rings on
50 last spring, and on 48 the year before. Of these, nineteen
have subsequently been accounted for, and beyond one of
their birds that was shot here, I have not heard of any of
their ringed birds being got outside their own coverts.
The accepted theory amongst many sportsmen, is, that
the birds that are bred here go away, and that possibly
some may return. I admit that some may, and do leave
us, but from my own observations, and from those of others
better qualified to give their opinions than I am, I believe
that most of the birds bred here remain with us all through
the year. There is not a month during which plenty of
Woodcock cannot be seen here ; sometimes they are in the
old woods, sometimes in spinneys, and sometimes on heather.
Where they are depends on the time of the year, and the
conditions of weather.
Hazlewood, Sligo.
ty13. MacGIniEey.—LVoles from the Skelligs. 2ii
NOTES, FROM, THE SKELLIGS.
BY. Ps 1. MACGINLEY:
(With a Prefatory Note by the late R. J. USSHER, D.L., M.R.I.A.).
I forward a further communication from Mr. P. J. Mac-
Ginley, light-keeper on the Great Skellig, some of whose
previous observations have appeared on p. 178 of this
volume. I sent him a copy of the lvish Naturalist for
June, 1899, which contains some observations by Mr. E.
M‘Carron on the Razorbill.
ical Ab By
In Mr. M‘Carron’s observations on the Razorbill,! it is
stated that ‘“‘ young Razorbills leave their nesting-places
in the night-time. . . . The young ones are jostled
all the way down to the sea by the old ones. If the young
one rests too long, the old one shoves it on, and on it goes,
rolling and tumbling and falling sometimes down steep
cliffs.”
I must say that I have never witnessed the young Razor-
bills topple down the cliff when they are being taken away.
At an altitude of close on 600 feet it would be a cruel pro-
cess.. There are Razorbills nesting here close on 600 feet
high where the cliff is by no means overhanging, and where
if the young bird was once started off the ledge and not
assisted by the parent clear of the cliff—the first fall—
there it would remain in a crevice, or get killed on the
serrated edges of the rocks. As I have said previously
(p. 178 supra), 1 have watched them evening after evening
bring their young away, and after sunset, just as night falls
they leave. Directly over our landing where I spend my
evenings fishing there are numbers of these birds, so there
is no doubt about the time of the departure of the young.
One could not help but see them leave, one’s attention
being always drawn by the old birds continually screaming
in the flight down with the young one and for some time
1Ivish Naturalist, vol. viii., 1899, p. 135.
212 The Irish Naturalist. November,
after they reach the water. I have never witnessed the
older birds, having any difficulty coaxing the young to sea :
as soon as the young reaches the water it dives with the
older birds, and they accompany it on either side to the
deep. In a case of its toppling down the cliff from a
height at which some of our birds build I can easily imagine
their difficulty.
An instance that I have observed of a young bird toppling
down was that of a forsaken Puffin when the parents had
left with the flock. In the case of the Puffins they lay
their eggs almost anywhere they can get their heads ;
in every burrow, large or small, underneath every stone can
be found a Puffin’s egg. The rock is almost covered with
these birds. At any hour of the day one can see these
birds bring the food. When the young are small they bring
the small ‘‘ fry’ 8 and g and sometimes Io at a time, but
this time of the season (August) as the young ones become
strong, they bring home a single fish about 34 inches or 4
inches long.
The young leave with the flock in the morning early.
They are strong, fully feathered before they attempt to
go, but many of them are forsaken before they are able
to go. In that case they ramble out of the nests, and
topple down the cliff. If not devoured by the Royal Gull
they meet with a fall equally bad. Hundreds of them are
killed in this way. When the greater number of the birds
have left, few ever return to feed any of the late young ;
but there are exceptions, as I write this the Puffins are
gone, and a single bird can be seen coming with food to its
young. They do not rest on the rock at this stage but
fly straight into the nest, drop the food and out to sea
again.
The Puffin will allow itself to be hauled out of the nest
by holding on to a piece of stick or anything it catches.
These are wonderful birds regarding their fighting pro-
pensities. I have lifted them off the ground over four feet
with a piece of stick underneath their chin they having such
a firm hold of each other before their releasing that hold ;
and at this time they were after falling close on roo feet,
1913. MacGiniKy.—WNotles from the Skelligs. 213
never letting go the original hold. There are numerous
cases where the weaker gets exhausted and dies fighting,
but the extraordinary part is, in case of their dropping
into the sea they always separate before touching the water.
It would be hard to credit that the graceful little Kitti-
wake fights with such determination that there was a case
last year here of a pair of them drowning each other. |
have often seen them fight for possession, but never with
such venom as the solitary instance I mention.
I have never seen the Shearwaters in daylight coming to
or leaving their nests. If caught in the burrow (their nest)
after dawn, they remain there all day till night sets in.
Hundreds of these birds breed on Puffin Island, where they
can be seen in flocks after sunset hovering round till dark
sets in, but they never have any intercourse with their
nests while there is daylight.
Their nest is a deep rabbit-burrow, sometimes seven or
eight feet underground, or underneath a large rock, where
hidden from view they feed their young throughout the night,
for they never bring food nor are seen there at all in the
day-time. In the night-time also the young leave. I have
often found them in the early morning, they having struck
the protection-rail on their downward flight when leaving.
By the aid of the light one can see these birds hovering round
incessantly screaming, but all is silent as day dawns.
The Stormy Petrels can be found on their nests underneath
the stones at any time during the day. They are not seen
feeding, or having any intercourse with their nests in day-
light. They are night-birds also, very easily attracted by
the light with evil consequences—many of them are killed
in this way, especially later on when the young are leaving.
Every dark night they are round the light, but are never
seen in the day-time, except on the nest. They feed and
bring their young away in the night-time also. The young
of those birds are the best developed I know before they
leave. One could hardly discern any striking difference
in size between the parents and offspring. They are the
last that leave here, generally about the middle of Sep-
tember.
214 The lrish Naturaltst. November,
With regard to the contention of Mr. M*Carron that the
bird which passes as the ‘‘ Young Razorbill” is a distinct
species from the common Razorbill,t I am more inclined
to favour Mr. Barrington’s view of there not being two
species of Razorbill. The birds that are mentioned as
young Razorbills are quite common here from the month
of December to the middle of March. In Wicklow Bay,
Blacksod Bay, Carlingford Lough and Ballycottin Bay
they are very numerous. Even in Valencia last year I
saw some of them caught in nets, but in Blacksod Bay
especially they are very numerous.
Great Skellig Lighthouse, Co. Kerry.
REVIEWS.
THE FALCON’S NEST.
The Peregrine Falcon at the Eyrie. By FRANCIS HEATHERLEY, F.R.C.S.,
London: Offices of ‘Country Life,” 1913. Pp. 80, with many
»hotographs. Price 5s. net.
In this splendidly illustrated book, Dr. Heatherley has made a revelation
of the domestic life of the Peregrine which he brings before us in a long
series of most excellent photographs. These show the bird and its young
in various poses and actions while the brooding and feeding of the nestlings
was going on. It excites our wonder that so wild and watchful a creature
would endure the erection of a shed on trestles lashed with ropes within
a, few feet of its eyrie ; though to a certain extent an object of suspicion,
and daily disturbed by the change of occupant, this structure never
interfered with the attendance on the young by their male parent, who
proved a most devoted and expert nurse, leaving it to the female to
provide the food supply. This consisted largely of Puffins as well as
Thrushes and other Jand-birds, the feathers and bones being offered to
and swallowed by the nestling Peregrines. Feeding went on at intervals
from dawn through the morning and evening, being generally discontinued
in the middle of the day. The bits that were dropped were carefully
picked up and given again to the young, unlike the custom of Auks and
Gannets which leave a fish when once it has fallen, though they have to go
so far to get another. The food-note is described and another call to urge
on the young to take food, also the alarm cry and several other expressions
of bird language peculiar to the Peregrine. The site chosen for the eyrie
does not seem to be so precipitous as is usual in Ireland, where a cliff
almost always overhangs it (see ‘‘ Birds of Ireland,” p. 142, and “ Our
Rarer British Breeding Birds,”’ by Kearton, p. 26).
1 Jyish Naturalist, vol. vili., 1899, pp. 132-134.
1913. Reviews. 215
Careful notes are given with each plate of the photographic data, and
a section is devoted to this subject which will be useful to bird photo-
graphers. The shed and its erection are described, and the endurance
of the observer, who was daily relieved by another, does not seem to have
been tested so severely as that of Mr. Macpherson (“‘ Home Life of a
Golden Eagle ’’).
Dr. Heatherley has nothing but reprobation for egg-collectors, and
adopted the singular expedient of defacing eggs with a blue pencil and
replacing them in the eyrie, where they were hatched out, another instance
of the Peregrine’s tolerance of interference with her home. Bird-
photography has made wonderful advances since the brothers Kearton
produced the first books devoted to the subject, but collections of skins,
and eggs, at least for museums, are more necessary than Dr. Heatherley
would allow—though there are some collectors who fully deserve his
denunciation.
R. J. USSHER.
RURAL BOTANY.
Weeds: Simple Lessons for Children. By Roserr Lioyp PRAEGER.
With Illustrations by S. Rosamond Praeger and R. J. Welch. Cam-
bridge University Press, 1913. pp. x. + 108, 3 Plates, 45 illustrations.
Priee ; 1s.) 6d: net.
This is one of the Cambridge Nature Study Series, and some idea of
its scope may be gained from the titles of the six chapters :—I. What
Weeds are, and their place in the Plant World. II. The Life of a Plant.
III. On Weeds in general. IV. Seeds and their ways. V. The War
against Weeds. VI. Some Common Weeds. It is written in an agree-
able and easy style, and there is no one better fitted than its author to
discourse on such a subject. As might perhaps be expected the examples
of weeds and their ways are chiefly drawn from Ireland. Each chapter
is followed by a set of practical exercises, and it would be difficult to
conceive of any more useful form of instruction in Irish rural schools than
working through these. As an additional recommendation for its use
in this country the Irish name of each weed described is given in addition
to its English name. There are a few slips in the book, but none of
serious consequence, and in a few cases the author’s meaning is hardly
sufficiently clear. On p. 9 where the Poplar is mentioned among the
native trees of Ireland it is doubtless the Aspen that is meant. The
Cuckoo Pint is mentioned (p. 20) along with Bracken and Couch Grass as
having a creeping stem, but the distance travelled by the short tuberous
stem of the first-named must be very slight each year. The hairs of
the Nettle are said (p. 97) to contain formic acid, and up to recent years
this was supposed to be the case; but Solereder in his ‘“‘ Systematic
Anatomy of the Dicotyledons ”’ states that the acid is not formic.
These, however, are minor matters and in no way detract from the
usefulness of the book. As regards the illustrations it is sufficient to
say that they are of the high quality associated with the names of both
artists.
1 ee
216 The Lrish Naturalist. November,
IRISH SOCIETIES.
ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Recent gifts include a Suricate from Mrs. Rowan, Undulated Grass
Parakeets and Cockateels from Mr. A. Goodbody, two Peahens from
Mr. J. Collin, and a Great Northern Diver from Mr. J. Keith. <A Striped
Hyaena, a Hooded Crow, a pair of Peafowl, a Yokohama Cock, a pair of
Hen Harriers, and a Merlin have been received on deposit.
The Society has sustained a great loss by the death of Patrick Supple
who has been over fifty years keeper in the Gardens, and for most of that
time has been in charge of the Monkey House.
DUBLIN MICROSCOPICAL CLUB.
OCTOBER 8.—The Club met at Leinster House. J. H.. WooDWorRTH
(President) in the Chair.
Prof. G. H. CARPENTER showed a new species of Petrobius from the
shore of Portrane, Co. Dublin, with drawings showing the structural details
by which it may be distinguished from the common P. maritimus Leach.
It will shortly be described and figured in the Ivish Naturalist. He also
demonstrated the presence of a few minute but distinct teeth at the apex
of the mandible in the final cuticle as formed beneath that of the penulti-
mate instar before the last moult. It seems that these teeth are
worn down immediately after the moult, so that the untoothed mandibular
apex becomes a generic character for Petrobius.
N. CoLGan exhibited a series of slides illustrating changes effected
during the process of growth in the form of the radula in certain species
of opisthobranch mollusca. Amongst the species selected as affording
instances of these changes were Aplysia punctata, Tritonia plebeia and
Dendronotus arborescens, in all of which the broad lingual ribbon is com-
posed of several transverse rows of teeth, each row having a large central
tooth flanked on either side by numerous smaller lateral teeth or uncini.
The radula or lingual ribbon of a 6mm. specimen of Tritonia plebeia was
shown to have 26 rows, of which the widest had 50 laterals on either side,
while the radula of a 20 mm. specimen of the same species had 38
rows with 7o laterals. In Aplysia the number of rows and of laterals
in the widest row was found to vary from 21 and I0 in a specimen 12mm.
long to 46 and 17 in a specimen 175mm. long. These numerical varia-
tions were found to be accompanied by variations in the form of the teeth
in the direction of blunting or simplification of outline with increasing
age and size. Thus in Dendvronotus arborescens, the tips of the uncini,
Sharply denticulate in the younger and smaller individuals, became quite
smooth in the largest specimen. In Aplysia the growth changes were
most conspicuous in the central teeth whose outline became remarkably
altered by unequal development of the parts. Examination of a large
1913. Trish Societies. 217
series of nudibranch radulae led the exhibitor to conclude that such
changes, in so far as they affect the dental fornwla or number of teeth,
were common to the whole sub-order Nudibranchiata, and in each species
continued to take place throughout the life of the animal.
D. M‘ARDLE exhibited a germinated spore of Tetraphis pellucida with
protonema, showing the peculiar frondiform leaves which appear at the
first development of the moss stem; they are ligulate or ovate-spathulate
in shape from a narrow base ; in this species they disappear before the
development of the moss stem is completed and are rarely to be seen.
In the other native species T. Brownianum these curious leaves are per-
sistent, and form a tuft of radical frondiform leaves, which are sometimes
divided like the fronds of the Forked Spleenwort. A North American
species T. geniculata differs from the others in the absence of the gemmae,
and above all in the geniculate pedicel. In T. vepanda which is found in
France and elsewhere on the Continent the frondiform leaves are replaced
by minute flagelliform shoots bearing very minute nerveless leaves.
The specimens exhibited were collected recently on a peaty bank in the
Glen of the Downs, Co. Wicklow.
NOTES,
BOTANY
Stachys Betonica, etc., in West Cork.
Included in a small collection of plants sent me by a friend from Castle-
town Berehaven was a specimen of Stachys Betonica gathered near Garinish
Point, about ten miles west of the village. It grew on a heathery slope
between the road and the sea near the White Strand, and was only noticed
in one spot. This is a very interesting restcration to the County Cork
flora. It was recorded by Drummond so long ago as 1819 as growing
‘“‘in the baronies of Bere and Imokilly, Cork,’ but has been quite lost
sight of in the county for nearly a hundred years. Among other plants
sent me from this locality were Spivanthes autumnalis, gathered near the
roadside a little west of White Ball Head ; Verbena in several localities
about the village ; and Wahlenbergia found near the village of Eyeries
on the Kenmare Bay side of the Slieve Miskish mountains, about four
miles north west of Berehaven. The Stachys, Spiranthes and Verbena
were found by Mrs. Crookshank, the Wahlenbergia by Miss Mary Crook-
shank. Now that Drummond’s old record for the Barony of Bere has
been proved correct, there is every reason to hope that it will be refound
in the Barony of Imokilly also, which would restore this plant to the East
as well as to the West Cork divisions of Praeger’s “ Irish Topographical
Botany.”
Dundrum.
REGINALD W. SCULLY,
218 The Llrish Naturalist. November,
Interesting Hepatics from Co. Kerry.
In July, 1913, Mr. Praeger sent me two Hepatics found by him near
Brandon Mountain, in Iveragh, Co. Kerry, which were so unusual that
I sent them to Mr. Macvicar, of Invermoidart, for his opinion. One,
which forms tufts in several feet of water on the sandy bottom of Lough
Doon, near Connor Pass, I took for a form of Scapania undulata. I have
gathered a similar plant in pools on Carlingford Mountain, in Co. Louth.
On this Kerry plant, Mr. Macvicar writes :—‘ I consider the submerged
Scapania as rather belonging to S. dentata than to S. undulata.”
The other plant grew on the bottom of the highest tarn on Brandon
Mountain at an altitude of 2,500 feet, where it forms patches in three to
six feet of water. Mr. Macvicar says of this :—‘‘ The Aneura is most
curious ; the thallus is 7-9 or more cells in thickness. J am inclined to
place it to A. pinguis as a submerged form. The colour and crispness
seem to belong to that species.”’
H.W. Lier:
Loughbrickland, Co. Down.
Helvella crispa in Co. Donegal.
Mr. W. E. Hart forwards a fine specimen of Helvella crispa found by
Miss Mary Colgan at Kilderry, Co. Donegal. Mr. Hart reports that the
fungus is of frequent occurrence at that place. The only previous Ulster
records appear to be from Down (Waddell) and Armagh (Lett), in Canon
Lett’s paper on the Fungi of N.E. Ireland in the Proceedings of the Belfast
Field Club. Mr. A. D. Cotton, of Kew, kindly confirmed Mr. Hart’s
identification.
Dublin. R. Li. PRAEGER.
ZOOLOGY.
Mollusca from the Great Saltee Island.
Mr. Stelfox asked me to collect mollusca during my visit to the Saltees
last June, I was too much occupied to pay much attention to this
group, but sent the few I got to Mr. Stelfox, who suggests the publication
of the names:—Limavx arborum var. maculata, Roebuck; L. maximus, A grio-
limax agrestis, Avion intermedius (dark grey form), Pyramidula rotundata,
Hygromia hispida (flat ‘‘ eastern ’’ form), Helicella virgata (same form as
occurs on mainland of Wexford), Helix nemoralis, Pupa cylindracea.
Dublin. R. Ly. PRAEGER.
Black Tern on Migration at Tuskar Light-station.
On August 31st, at 1 a.m., a Black Tern was picked up on the balcony
of the Tuskar lighthouse by Mr. Glanville, and kindly forwarded to me
in the flesh.
Ca J. PATTER.
University, Sheffield.
1913. Notes. 219
Iceland Gull in July and Mealy Redpoll on Inishtrahull.
An Iceland Gull appeared on Inishtrabull on Friday, July 18th
last. I found, on obtaining the bird, that it was changing from the white
to a later phase of plumage. I am not sure if this bird has been recorded
previously as occurring in Ireland in July. In his “ Birds of Ireland,”
Mr. Ussher points out that July is the only month the Iceland Gull has
not been obtained.
On September 24th at noon, a Mealy Redpoll fluttered down the chimney
of one of the islanders’ cottages, and was brought to me. It was un-
injured, and is feeding well in a cage.
University, Sheffield. C. -}. 'PSTren.
Stock Doves in County Fermanagh.
Last year (1912) I picked up a Stock Dove (Columba aenas) in the
garden here, the first I had ever seen in this county; it was in a very
emaciated condition, and died in a few days. This summer two pairs
nested in the garden, but I do not know whether they reared any young
or not, as I was away at the time they should have flown.
Tempo, Co. Fermanagh. CHARLES LANGHAM.
Spotted Flycatchers at Portlaw.
On the 24th August last, I watched a number of Spotted Flycatchers.
They were all settled on the wire fences surrounding two tennis courts
in the garden here. Eleven birds I was able to count for certain, but
there probably was a larger number. Their activity prevented me from
counting more. It was an interesting sight. They came at times so
close, I could hear the snapping of the bill. They were all very busy,
taking short flights to catch their insect prey. But the point of my
note is this :—They all, with one exception, disappeared on the following
day. I think it can hardly be doubted that they disappeared to perform
their autumnal migration. It was certainly not scarcity of food that
urged them to leave. The supply of Flycatchers’ food is abundant here,
too abundant to be pleasant to human beings. I have just consulted
Mr. Barrington’s great work, ‘‘ Migration of Birds,’ and find that he
records instances of Spotted Flycatchers killed at Irish lights at the
extraordinarily different dates of July 21, September 21, October 2 and
20, November 20-30. These were all single birds, and were killed in 1895,
1887 (two), 1889, and 1897. I think it can be inferred from what I
noted that the time of the geneval autumnal migration of the Spotted
Flycatcher is about the end of August. In exceptional years birds begin
to leave us about the middle of July, and stay with us sometimes even
till the end of November.
Coolfin, Portlaw., Co. Waterford, W. W. FLEMYNG.
220 The lrish Naturalist. November, 1913.
Tree-Pipits and Pied Flycatcher on Migration at Tuskar Light.
A Tree-Pipit was obtained on Tuskar Rock, on August 31st. Two
were obtained striking on the night of 3rd-4th September, and two on
the night of the 4th-5th September. Two were found dead in the
early morning of September 5th. To Mr. Glanville, Principal Keeper,
I owe my cordial thanks for his kindness in forwarding the specimens
and particulars. I hope to publish details later on.
On September 5th, at 2.40 a.m., a Pied Flycatcher struck the Tuskar
lighthouse, and has been forwarded to me in the flesh by Mr. Glanville.
I am greatly indebted to Mr. M‘Ginley for collecting the specimen.
University, Sheffield. C.J. PATTERN:
Tree Pipit and Pied Flycatcher at Rockabill.
On the 3rd of September, Mr. F. J. Duffy, lightkeeper at Rockabill,
Co. Dublin, found two birds dead at the base of the tower ; one, he sug-
gested, might be a Short-toed Lark, the other, with white on its wings,
he did not know. Both were forwarded to me in the flesh ; the ‘‘ Lark ”’
proved to be a female Tree-Pipit in fair condition, the other, a young
Pied Flycatcher.
Dr. Patten has already recorded (Ivish Nat., November, 1912, p. 209)
the Tree-Pipit from the Tuskar Rock, Co. Wexford; one obtained on
September roth, another on September 22nd, being the first authentic
occurrences in Ireland. Although Dr. Patten states that he was familiar
with the appearance of the Tree-Pipit at Sheffield, he does not appear
to have recognised it at first. He suggests that it was emigrating from
Ireland, and that Irish ornithologists should use every effort to prove
that it breeds there.
This species has been met with in some numbers by Mr. Eagle Clarke
in St. Kilda in the autumn and is a great straggler, and the fact of its
occurrence in September at the Irish light-stations does not prove that
it breeds here and was emigrating, any more than the Pied Flycatcher,
which was got dead at the same time, being the eleventh autumnal speci-
men of this species forwarded to me from Irish lhghthouses since 1886.
RIcHD. M. BARRINGTON.
Fassaroe, Bray.
Aquatic Warbler on Migration at Tuskar Light-station.
I have had the pleasure of identifying an Aquatic Warbler from Tuskar
light-station. I am much obliged to Mr. Glanville, who picked the bird
up dead on the rock at 4.45 a.m. on August 9th, and sent it to me in the
flesh. Full particulars will be given later.
C. J: PATTEN,
University, Sheffield,
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Irish NATURALIST, VoL XXII.
RICHARD OLIN PUSSEH EK.
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December, 1913. The Irish Naturalist.
RICHARD JOHN USSHER.
A true conception of the position Mr. R. J. Ussher
occupied amongst Irish naturalists cannot be readily
conveyed. Amongst Irish ornithologists, he was facile
princeps, the ‘‘ Recording Angel,” and,had at his fingers’
~ends all the records of the distribution, county by county,
of the Irish avifauna. As a speleologist, he also took first
place; no Irishman, and few Englishmen, have spent the
same amount of time and money in excavating caves.
He was born on the 6th April, 1841, and after a short ill-
ness, died on the 12th October, 1913, aged 72 years, and
was buried in the family fault at Whitechurch, near his
residence, on October 15th. His father, who married a
daughter of Colonel Grant, at one time Governor of Upper
Canada, was 63 years old at the time of R. J. Ussher’s
birth, so that the two lives extended over a period of 135
years. The subject of this memoir was the only child
of the marriage who survived beyond infancy. At the age
of twelve, he was sent to a school at Portarlington, and
subsequently to Chester. When he was thirteen, his father
died, and, as he was delicate, his mother kept him at home,
where he was educated by a tutor, and entering Trinity
College, Dublin, he passed his Little-go as a non-resident
student, but owing to ill-health, never took his degree, but
spent successive winters with his mother and a tutor in
Spain, Italy, Corfu, and elsewhere.
When twenty-five, he married the eldest daughter of the
Rev. John Finlay, of Corkagh House, Co. Dublin, and again
travelled abroad for some years. He then devoted himself
with energy to public duties in his own county, being, at
the time of his death, its oldest magistrate save one. He
became Deputy Lieutenant, Grand Juror and High Sheriff,
and taking a great interest in Church matters, was for
many years a member of the General Synod. In politics
he was a strong Unionist, and as a resident landlord, he
occupied the house which his father had built amidst
beautiful grounds, and overlooking artificial lakes.
His interest in natural history was partly inherent,
for as a boy he was fond of egg-collecting, and this taste
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222 The Lrish Naturalist. December,
was developed chiefly owing to the circumstances of his
life, for in 1877, his wife became a confirmed invalid, and
under this great family sorrow, relief was found in his old
love for ornithology. His summers were spent at Ardmore
on the coast of Waterford, where the cliffs and sea-birds
were a constant source of attraction, and Ussher became
an expert climber ‘and great egg-collector. It was here
he gave the Keartons their first lessons in cliff-climbing.
Almost every part of Ireland was visited in ceaseless
search for the breeding-haunts of rare birds, and the assist-
ance of correspondents was enlisted in nearly every county
so that his egg-collection became almost unique, it ; was
acquired some years ago by the National Museum in Dublin.
After its removal from Cappagh, he gave up egg-collecting,
but his energy as an ornithologist was even greater than
before. Annual summer journeys, not only to the cliffs
and islands of the west coast, but also to the lakes and
marshes of the Midlands were undertaken, often as a delegate
from the Irish Society for the Protection of Birds, with
the object of supervising the watchers. So late as last
June, he was instrumental in detecting, while with the
writer, the duplicity of one of these men, who indirectly
was actually selling the eggs of the bird he was supposed
to protect.
Many naturalists visited Ussher in his home at Cappagh ;
Prof. Leith Adams, Seebohm, Howard Saunders, the
brothers Lindner from Germany, and several others. The
Great Saltee Island, off the coast of Wexford, famous for
the number and accessibility of its sea-birds was a favourite
rendezvous, and an expedition there was organised last
June. German, English and American visitors were
invited and enjoyed a delightful time, sleeping in the old
deserted farmhouse, towards the repairing of which Ussher
contributed liberally.
Students of ornithology in Ireland have been singularly
few, compared with those of Great Britain, and no book
worthy of the name dealing with its birds in detail was
published in the last century, except the three volumes of
William Thompson, 1849-51. From that time down to 1900,
with the exception of A. G, More’s valuable “‘ List of Irish
en oe el
1913, Richard John Ussher 223
Birds,” 1885 and 1890, one was at a loss to know where to
seek fur information. Papers and notes were scattered
everywhere, and the contents of private collections were
practically unknown. Ussher, after immense labour and
correspondence, tabulated and extracted everything he
considered of value. Possessing leisure, enthusiasm and
knowledge, and being a persistent and unwearying letter-
writer, he collected material from all sources with astonish-
ing assiduity, and we have the result in the well-known
‘** Birds of Ireland,” a volume which will hold its own with
any of a similar type for painstaking and original work.
It is not merely a topographical ornithology, it also contains
descriptive notes on the habits of birds; some of this
information is new, and almost all of it is simply and
happily expressed.
If Ussher had any fault, it was being over-patient with
correspondents, whose feelings he would avoid hurting by
any show of incredulity. He delighted to encourage poor
men, by presenting them with books and pamphlets on
natural history, and for their benefit he wrote long letters
of explanation.
Next to the ‘‘ Birds of Ireland,” perhaps the most
laborious work he undertook was revising More’s “‘ List of
Irish Birds”’ for the National Museum, and writing Part
XX. (Aves) for the Clare Island Survey report. A list of
his more important papers is given hereafter.
He was fond of archeology, and it was Prof. Leith Adams
who chiefly aroused his interest in cave-digging, and Ussher
published with him, and also in conjunction with Dr. Scharff
and others, many papers on cave-exploration (mentioned in
appendix). The brunt of the labour, and a large share of
the expense were always borne by him. He thoroughly en-
joyed working underground, and provided himself witha
complete digging equipment, his clothes being partly covered
with stout leather, to avoid injury or abrasion. So far back
as 1879, he contributed a paper to the Zoologist on a cavern
near Cappagh. He explored with Leith Adams the Shandon
Cave, and the limestone cave on his own property at Bally-
mahemery, and after Prof. Adams’ death, the Keshcorran
Caves in Sligo, the Edenvale Cave in Clare, and the Castle
Pook Cave near Doneraile,
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224 The Irish Naturalist. December,
He was always accompanied by his faithful valet, John
Power, and usually erected a hut at the mouth of the cave,
spending weeks laying bare the bones of Mammoth, Bear,
Red Deer, Hyaena, three species of Lemming, etc. He
was the first to discover in Ireland the Hyaena and the
Lemmings. Thousands of bones, and many interesting
prehistoric human relics have been deposited in the
National Museum, Dublin, as a result of his work. The
writer well remembers a visit paid to Castle Pook; when
shown into his ‘‘ room’’—viz., one side of the hut—the
huge shoulder-blade of a mammoth just exhumed was
found laid out on the bed. Nothing, however, pleased
Ussher more than the finding of the remains of the Great
Auk in Co. Waterford and other localities ; at the time of
his death, he was preparing a further report on cave-
exploration.
Although by no means a rich man he gave a few years
ago, a sum of £300 to the Royal Irish Academy to promote
the study of zoology in Ireland, including researches in
Irish caves, and he bequeathed to the same body all his
manuscripts, books, schedules, notes and papers on natural
history, cave-exploration and antiquities, and the hut
in which he resided when engaged in cave-work, with its
furniture and equipment. He recommended Mr. C. B.
Moffat, Dr. R. F. Scharff, and the writer of this memoir
for the administration of the above.
In appearance, he was a fairly big man, almost six feet
high, well set-up, with reddish hair and beard. He had a
rugged, but good-natured face, kindly blue eyes, and a
quiet, courteous manner. He was anxious about detail,
fond of children, and ready to explain with great minuteness.
Gentle, yet resolute, he was sometimes inclined to be
credulous, this failing was best overcome by the good-
natured jokes of those who knew him well. It has been
truly said that “‘his integrity, unfailing courtesy, and
strong desire to be fair to those with whom he might differ,
were bound in the end to win him approval, or at least
respect.” Deeply religious, he carried his principles into
practice and bore himself with great patience in ad-
versity. |
R. M.. BARRINGTON, ©
1913. Richard John Ussher 225
LIST OF BOOKS AND MORE IMPORTANT PAPERS
Brae. |. Uso, U.L,, MBCA,
A.—On CAVE EXPLORATION AND PALAEONTOLOGY.
1879. On the Discovery of an Ossiferous Cavern near Cappagh, Co. Water-
ford. Zoologist (3), vol. ili.,-p. 331.
1879-83. Reports on Caves and Kitchen-middens, in Brit. Assoc. Reports :
1879, Pp. 338; 1880,-p. 210; 1881, p.. 218.5 1882,;°p. ‘240; 1883,
Pi E32.
1879 [with A. LEITH ApDams]. Notes on the Discovery in Ireland of a
Bone-cave containing remains of the Irish Elk apparently co-
existent with Man. Sci. Proc. R. Dublin Soc., vol. ii., p. 234.
1880 [with G. H. KINAHAN]. On a Submarine Crannog discovered at
Ardmore, Co. Waterford. Proc. R. I. Acad., vol. xvi., p. 61.
1881 [with A. LeiIrH ADAMs and G. H. KINAHAN]. Explorations in the
Bone-cave of Ballynamintra, near Cappagh, Co. Waterford.
Trans... R:* Dublin: Soc: (2); vol. 1... p._ 577!
1885. Description of Objects found in the Kitchen-middens of Raths.
Journ. R. Hist. and Arch. Soc., Iveland (4), vol. xii., p. 362.
1895. Notes on the Irish Caves. Jvish Nat., vol. iv., p. 92.
1897. Discovery of Human and other remains with materials similar to
those of a Crannog high above the present Valley of the Black-
water between Lismore Castle and Cathedral. Pyvroc. R. I.-Acad.,
Velitzx;, ps) 5:50:
1897. The Discovery of Bones of the Great Auk in Co. Waterford. Irish
Nat., vol. vi., p. 208.
1899. The Great Auk, once an Irish Bird. Ivish Nat., vol. viii., p. I.
1902. Evidence of the Caves. Proc. Belfast Nat. Hist. Phil. Soc., p. 35.
1903 [with R. F. ScHARFF, G. CoFFEy, G. A. J. CoLeE, and R. LL. PRAEGER].
The Exploration of the Caves of Kesh, Co. Sligo. Tvans. R. I.
Acad., vol. xxxii. B., pt. 4.
1905. On the Discovery of Hyaena, Mammoth, and other extinct Mammals
in a Carboniferous Cavern in Co. Cork. JPyroc. R. I. Acad., vol.
SRG ES po FT:
1906. The Hyaena Dens of the Mammoth Cave near Doneraile, Co. Cork.
Irish Nat., vol. xv., p. 237.
1906 [with R. F. ScHARFF, G. CoFFEY, G. A. J. COLE, and R. LL. PRAEGER].
The Exploration of the Caves of Co. Clare. Trans. R. I. A., vol.
exit. B., pt. ¥.
1908 [with Rk. F. ScHarFF, H. J. SEyMour, and E. T. NEwron]. On
the Cave of Castlepook near Doneraile, Co. Cork. Brit. Assoc.
Rep.,. p> 667.
1908. Supposed Black Grouse and Ptarmigan from Irish Caves.- Brit.
Birds, vol. ii., p. 167.
1910. Cave Hunting. Jvish Nat., vol. xix., p. 37.
1912. Marine Shells in Inland Kitchen-middens. Ib., vol. xxi., p. 28.
226 The lrish Naturalist. December,
B.—On ORNITHOLOGY.
1879-83. [Many Notes in Zoologist (3) vols. iii.—vii].
1883. The Siskin in Ireland. JZoologist (3) vol. vii., p. 493.
1884. Irish Breeding-stations of the Gannet. Zoologist (3) vol. viii.,
Pp. 479.
1885. Two days in the Comeragh Mountains. /Jb., vol. ix., p. 88.
1884-6. [Many Notes in Zoologist (3) vols. viii.—x.]
1886. Bird life on the Saltees and the Keraghs, Co. Wexford. Zoologist
(3) vol. my, p-288.
1886-92. [Many Notes in Zoologist (3) vols. xi.—xvi. and Field, vols. 1xxvii.,
Ixxviil., lxxx.]
1889. The Invasion of Crossbills in the east of France. Zoologist (3) vol.
Elli... [Ps7-70s
1889. Crossbill breeding in Co. Waterford. tonp. tise;
1890. On the Coast of Connaught. Zoologist (3) vol. xiv., p. 361.
1890. Nesting of the Crossbill in the Co. Waterford. .c., p. 199.
1891. Crossbills and Siskins breeding in Co. Waterford. Zoologist (3)
VOLAKVi. 2K
1892. The Crossbill in Ireland. J/rish Nat., vol. i., pp. 6, 28.
1892-1913. [Many Notes in Irish Naturalist, vols. i1.—xxil. See R. M.
Barrington’s Index to vols. i.—xviii.]
1893. The Breeding of the Garden Warbler in the Shannon Valley. Ib.,
VoL, jis) sp: 7185;
1893. The Birds of the Midland Lakes and Bogs. JD., vol. ii., pp. 231,
201.
1894. Report on the Breeding Range of Birds in Ireland. Proc. R. I.
Acad., vol. xix., p. 401. .
1894. The Birds of the Co. Cork. Cork.
1895. An Ornithological Exploration in Donegal, Fermanagh, Sligo, and
Roscommon. Ivrish Nat., vol. iv., p. 142.
1896. The Birds of Connemara. JIb., vol. v., p. 319.
1896. On the Reported Occurrence of the Gold-vented Thrush and Spotted
Eagle-Owl in Ireland. Zoologist (3) vol. xx., p. 161.
1897. [Notes on Lesser Redpoll and Forktailed Petrel. Field, vol. 1xxxix.,
p. 2015, and ‘vol. -xc.,. p. 072.)
1897. The Distribution of Birds Breeding in Ireland. Jrish Nat., vol. vi.,
p. 64.
1900 [with R. WARREN]. The Birds of Ireland. Dublin and London.
1901. The Great and Sooty Shearwaters on the South Coast. Irish Nat.,
VOL Si, 42.
1901. The Colours of Guillemots’ Eggs. Nature, vol. Ixv., p. 5.
1902. The Bird-Fauna of Ireland as affected by its Geography. Brit.
Assec. Report, p. 658.
1904. Birds met with in the Shannon Valley. Jvish Nat., vol. xili., p.
IOI.
1904. Birds and their Breeding Habits. Report Belfast Nat. Field Club
(2) val: “va, p: oF:
1905. Birds met with on the Connaught Lakes. Irish Nat., vol. xiv.,
Pp. 125.
1913. Richard John Ussher. 227
1908. A List of Jrish Birds. Dublin (National Museum).
Igio. Birds of Rosapenna. Irish Nat., vol. xiz:., p. 170.
1g1it. The Fulmar Petrel breeding in Ireland. Jb., vol. xx., p. 148.
Igt1-13. [Notes in British Birds, vols. v.-vii.]
1912. Clare Island Survey. Aves. Pyvoc. R. Ivish Acad., vol. xxxi.,
pt. 20.
C.—On MAMMALS.
1882. Notes on Irish Red Deer. Zoologist (3) vol. vi., p. 81.
1898. Breeding of the Marten in Co. Waterford. Ivish Nat., vol. vii.,
pi. 172.
1908. Supposed Occurrence of a Wild Cat in West Cork. JIvish Nat.,
VoL. (uit_;\ 9p. “To:
IRISH SOCIETIES.
DUBLIN NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB.
SEPT. 20.—EXCURSION TO GLENASMOLE.—In spite of very threatening
weather a small party assembled at Terenure about 11 o’clock in the
morning, and proceeded by car to the upper reservoir of the Rathmines
Waterworks, which was reached soon after mid-day. The afternoon
unexpectedly proved quite fine, and a few hours were pleasantly spent
in botanizing round the head of the glen from the old burial ground of
Saint Ann’s up to Castle Kelly. The Spotted Mimulus (Mimulus
guttatus), a North American alien introduced at Castle Kelly some fifty
years ago, was found in abundance, and here and there still in flower,
along the overflows of the stream and in the retaining walls of the catch-
ment channel which intercepts and carries down to the lower reservoir
the waters destined to maintain the level of the Dodder river. In these
walls, too, a Hawkweed (Hieracium umbellatum) appeared in abundance,
and the peaty margins and parts of the floor of the upper reservoir, laid
bare over wide areas by the long-continued drought, yielded great sheets
of the Water Purslane (Peplis Portula) and the Marsh Cudweed (Guapha-
lium uliginosum). Near the old burial ground many fine stocks of the
Guelder Rose (Viburnum Opulus) one of our handsomest native shrubs,
by no means common in Dublin, were found in full fruit. In the “ free-
stone’ tracts along the river at Castle Kelly appeared a few plants of
the Wormwood (Artemsia Absinthium), an alien long established, though
nowhere abundant in the upper Dodder valley. Tea was provided about
4 o’clock at Mrs. Healy’s, near Bohernabreena, and an hour’s drive thence
took the party back to the starting-point at Terenure by way of Old
Bawn and Tallaght.
228 ie a i ish Naturalist December
THE IRISH SPECLIES-OF PET RUB eo:
BY PROFESSOR GEORGE H. CARPENTER, B.SC., M.R.I.A.
(PLATES, .2; #3).
(Read before the Dublin Naturalists’ Field Club, 9th December, 1913).
Bristle-tails or ‘‘ Rock-jumpers”’ of the species described
more than a century ago by Leach (1809) as Petrobius
maritimus and recorded and figured in Lubbock’s well-
known ‘‘ Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura ”
(1873) as Machilis maritima, are very common around the
Irish and British coasts. They may usually be found
under the stones of the beach, or in the cracks of rocks
close to high-water mark, but they are by no means con-
fined to the tidal margin. On Howth Head, for example,
specimens inhabit the tops of the cliffs, and on Clare Island,
Co. Mayo, these insects abound among the loose stones
of the walls that border the roads along the shore.
In a recent paper (1913) contributed to the Natural
History Survey of Clare Island, I have defined and figured
with some detail the characters of the common Petrobius
which may be regarded as P. maritimus Leach, and I have
incidentally pointed out that a second and very distinct
species of Petrobius is found in Ireland. This latter is
much rarer than its relation, and so far, specimens have been
obtained nowhere else than at Portraine, Co. Dublin.
Genus Petrobius, Leach (1809).
Petrobius, Silvestri (1904).
Halomachilis, Verhoeff (1910).
When Leach established Petrobius, he was not able to
distinguish it from Machilis by very definite characters ;
the only outstanding feature in his diagnoses, indeed, is
the labial palp of which, in Machilis, the apex is said to be
membranaceous, while Petrobius has ‘“‘the last joint
obliquely truncate, with the apex acute and not mem-
branaceous.” It is not surprising therefore that for many
years his species P. maritimus was relegated to a compre-
hensive genus Machilis co-extensive indeed with the family
Machilidae. In recent studies of the genera, Silvestri has
now shown, however, that while Machilis (sensu str.) has
19 13. CARPENTER— The Irish Species of Petrobius. 229
paired processes (gonapophyses or paramera) on both the
eighth and ninth abdominal segments in the male, Petrobius
has these structures on the ninth segment only, not on
the eighth. Verhoeff has pointed out that in his Haloma-
chilis—undoubtedly congeneric with Petrobius—the feelers
have no scales except on the two basal segments, the apex
of the mandible is untoothed (figs. 2, 3, II., I1I., a) and the
tip of the labial palp (fig. 7, VII.) is beset with numerous
flattened sensory spines (figs. 7, A, VII., A.). From the genus
Praemachilis, Grassi, to which belong most, if not all, of
the Irish inland insects of this family, Petrobius may be
easily distinguished by the presence of two pairs of exsertile
vesicles (figs. 5, V., ve) on each abdominal segment from the
second to the fifth inclusive. In species of Praemachilis
these segments have each only one pair of these vesicles.
Petrobius brevistylis, sp. nov.
(PUATE “27:
Length (body and tail process) 21 mm. ___ Feelers as long
as body (11 mm.) general aspect and colouring as in P.
maritimus : the whole body covered with dark scaling ;
feelers, cerci, and tail-process white-ringed. Paired ocelli
dumb-bell shaped, less than a transverse diameter apart
(fig. 1,0). Medtan ocellus sub-ovate transverse (fig. I, m 0.)
Mandtble with blunt apex (figs. 2, 3a). Maxilla with lacinia
shorter than galea (fig. 6); palp having its six elongate
segments with proportional lengths 6: 6: 8-5: 8:5: 6;
segments of palp relatively thicker than in P. maritimus and
the antepenultimate markedly swollen distally. Eighth
abdominal sternum with subcoxae produced into prominent
vounded lobes (fig. 8). Ninth abdominal sternum (fig. 9)
with sub-coxae produced into very small pointed processes ;
stylets relatively short and thick, with very short, blunt apical
spines ; gonapophyses with slightly sinuate outer edges
reaching to the tips of the sub-coxae. Penis very elongate
projecting beyond the stylets. Ovipositor of female nearly
as long as the cerci, which are less than half the length
of the tail-process.
Locality, Portraine, Co. Dublin.
230 Tne Lrish Naturalist. December
The characters emphasised by italics in the above
diagnosis are of especial value in distinguishing this species
from P. maritiumus, Leach (Carpenter, I913, pp. 3-5.)
To facilitate discrimination between the two species,
structural figures of some of the more important corres-
ponding parts in P. maritimus are reproduced here (see
Plate 2, figs. 1-9 for P. brevistylis and Plate 3, figs. I.-IX.
for P. maritimus, with explanations). Comparison of these
drawings will prove more effective than the collation of
long descriptions. To facilitate comparison, similar parts
in the two species are indicated by corresponding numbers,
arabic in the case of P. brevistyis and roman for P. man-
timus.
The contrast between the acute mandibular apex (fig.
IIl., a.) of P. maritimus and the blunt truncated apex
in P. brevistylis (fig. 3A.) is remarkably constant. The
maxillary palps, and the stylets of the ninth abdominal
segment relatively shorter and thicker in P. brevistylis than
the corresponding structures in P. maritimus (compare
figs. 6, VJ., and 9, IX., st) are perhaps the best superficial
features by means of which the two species may be distin-
guished, and are common to both sexes. The prominent
rounded lobes of the sub-coxae of the eighth abdominal
segment (fig. 8, sc) in the male of P. brevistylis are also a
strongly distinctive feature. As these lobes are absent,
in the true P. maritimus, Leach (fig. VIII.) they should not
be used to distinguish Petrobius in a sub-generic sense, as
has lately been done by Silvestri (1911).
Petrobius brevistylis, the new species now described, is
distinct not only from the common British and Irish P.
maritimus Leach, but from the Dutch insect which Oude-
mans designated Machilis maritima and described in his
well-known memoir (1886). This last-named species, for
which the name P. Oudemansi would be appropriate has,
according to his figures, the lacinia of the maxilla much
longer than the galea, the maxillary palp with the penulti-
mate segment twice as long as the apical, the male gonapo-
physes not reaching the tips of the ninth abdominal sub-
coxae, and the penis attaining only to half the length of
the ninth abdominal stylets. P. Oudemansi agrees, how-
tor. CARPENTER.—The L[rish Species of Petrobius. 231
ever, with P. brevistylis in having prominent lobes on the
sub-coxae of the eighth abdominal sternum. Whether the
shore-haunting French species mentioned by Latreille
(1832, p. 178) under the name of Machitlis maritima is
identical with any one of the three Petrobu discussed in
this paper must remain, for the present, doubtful.
A few notes on the structure of the jaws in Petrobius
may bring this paper to an end. It has been already
mentioned that the absence of apical teeth on the mandible
serves as a generic character. In a female specimen of
the penultimate stage—apparently that distinguished by
Verhoeff (I910, pp. 397-9) as ‘‘ maturus junior,” the cuticle
of the apex and molar region of the final instar can be.
clearly seen within the part now functional (fig. 3). The
tip of this new mandibular apex has small but quite distinct
teeth ; apparently they are worn down almost as soon as
the mandible comes into use. It is noteworthy also that
there is apparently no new cuticle formed within the basal
region of the mandible at this late stage, and the last moult
undergone by the insect—at a stage when all its structures
including the reproductive organs are developed—is in-
complete. There is doubtless good reason for a fresh
formation of the mandibular apex and molar surface which
are subject to constant wearing action.
The maxillulae (fig. 4, Ml., IV.) are exceptionally well
developed in insects of this family ; each maxillula shows
a distinct lacinia and galea (fig. 4, IV.,/, g), whose apices
are finely spinose and. reticulated, and a vestigial palp
(fig. 4, IV., #.). The base of the maxillula is attached
by a strip of membranous cuticle to the base of the median
hypopharynx or tongue (fig. 4 Ay), which has a granulated
surface beset at the edge with minute bristles. The apex
of the tongue is quadrate, emarginate centrally ; its base
is supported by a pair of strong chitinous feet (fig. 4, pe)
which articulate with the tentorium of the head-capsule.
A somewhat complex ‘‘ head” at the extremity of the
lacinia of the maxilla (see fig. 6A) is characteristic of the
Machilidae. This structure has been figured by Verhoeff
(1904) from Machilis polypoda and by Borner (1908) from
an undetermined Japanese Machilid. In Petrobius brevi-
stys the arrangement of parts does not differ markedly
232 The Trish Naturalist - December,
from what is found in Machilis. The apex (fig. 6A, a) is
stout and ribbed ; it spreads out into lamellar edges em-
bracing the central process (>), which bears numerous
blunt spines forming a “‘ brush”’ ; internal to this are two
acuminate processes (c, d) with minute irregular spines on
their edges (Bérner’s Japanese species has four of these
processes or ‘‘inner lamellae ‘iyi It is instructive to
compare this lacinial head in an individual just after reach-
ing full maturity (fig. 6A) with the corresponding structure
in a specimen of the penultimate stage in which the apex,
the brush, and the acuminate processes (fig. 6B, a, 0, c, d)
-have been worn down almost to their bases. Here, again,
however, as in the case of the mandible, the new cuticle
for the final instar with these structures all sharp and
ready for use, can be seen inside. Except for its somewhat
greater relative length, the maxillary head of P. maritimus
hardly differs from that of P. brevistyhs.
REFERENCES.
1908.—B6rRNER, C.—Collembolen aus Sudafrika, nebst einer Studie uber
die I. Maxille der Collembolen. In Schultze’s Forschungsreise
im westlichen und zentralen Stidafrika, Jena.
1913.—CARPENTER, G. H.—Clare Island Survey. Part 32. Apterygota.
Proc. R. Irish Acad., xxx1.
1832.—LATREILLE, P. A.—De 1’Organisation extérieure et compareée de
lordre des Thysanoures. Nouv. Ann. der Muséum d’ Histoire
Naturelle, i., pp. 163-187.
1809.—LEAcH, W. E.—Article “‘ Entomology ’
Encyclopedia, 1x.
1873.—LuBBOocK, J.—Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura.
Ray Society.
1886.—OUDEMANS, J. T.—Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Thysanuren und
Collembolen. Bijdy. tot de Dierkunde (Amsterdam).
1904.—SILVESTRI, F.—Nuovi Generi e Specie di Machilidae. Redia, li.
191 1,.————— Contributo alla Conoscenza dei Machilidae dell’ America
Settentrionale. Boll. Lab. Zool. Portict, v.
1904.—VERHOEFF, K. W.—Ueber vergleichende Morphologie des Kopfes
niederer Insekten. Nova. Acta. Acad., L7op. Carol.,\xxxiv., no. I.
——Ueber Felsenspringer, Machiloidea, 4 Aufsatz: Systematik
und Orthomorphose. Zool, Anzeiger, XXXVI.
——
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in Brewster’s Edinburgh
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EXPLANATION OF PLATE 2.
Structural details of Petrobius brevistylis.
Fig. 1. Diagram showing shapes and positions of compound eyes: (e)
lateral ocelli (0), and median ocellus (mo). xX 28.
2. Right mandible of female, hinder aspect. c, condyle ; a, apex
m, molar area. x 28.
IrIsH NATURALIST, VOL. XXII. PLATE 3
PETROBIUS MARITIMUS Leach
To face page 233
19t3
Fig.
CARPENTER.—TZhe Irish Species of Petrobius. 233
3. Terminal region of right mandible of younger female (penulti-
mate instar); a, apex; m, molar area. The new cuticle of
this region can be seen within ; note the feebly toothed apex.
gS 2
4. Hypopharynx (hy) front aspect, with the left maxillula (M/.)
slightly displaced laterally, but retaining its membranous
connection with the base of the hypopharynx. /, lacinia, g,
galea, p, palp of maxillula; pe, peduncle of hypopharynx.
x 28.
5. Fifth abdominal segment of male, ventral aspect. s, sternum,
sc, sub-coxa, st, stylet ; ve, exsertile vesicles. x 28.
6. Right maxilla of female, hinder aspect. c, cardo; st, stipes ;
l, lacinia; g, galea; p, palp. x 28.
6A. Head of lacinia showing apex (a), “brush” (b), and acute
processes (c and d). xX 90.
6B. Head of lacinia from a specimen in the penultimate stage,
showing apex (a), ‘‘ brush’ (b), and acute processes (c and 4d)
greatly worn, and new cuticle of head formed within. x 90.
7. Labial palp of female. x 28.
A, sensory spines from its apex. x _ 180.
8. Eighth abdominal segment of male, ventral aspect. s, sternum ;
Sc, SUD-COXa.: Si, Stylet. "x 28.
g. Ninth abdominal segment of male, ventral aspect. sc, sub-
coxa ; st, stylet; g. gonapophysis; p, penis. The right sub-
coxa is partly broken away to expose the gonapophyes.
2a
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 3.
Structural details of Petrobius maritimus.
I. Diagram showing shapes and positions of compound eyes (e).
lateral ocelli (0), and median ocellus (mo). x 28.
II. Right mandible of female, hinder aspect. c, condyle; a, apex ;
m, molar area. x 28.
III. Terminal region of the same mandible. «a, apex; m, molar area.
x BG:
IV. Left maxillula, hinder aspect. /, lacinia; g, galea; p, palp.
x BO,
V. Fifth abdominal segment of male, ventral aspect. s, sternum ;
sc, Sub-coxa ; st, stylet ; ve, exsertile vesicles. x 28.
VI. Left maxilla of female, front aspect. c, cardo; st, stipes; /,
lacinia ; g, galea; p, palp. x 28.
VII. Labial palp of female. x 28.
A, sensory spines from its apex. x 180.
VIII. Eighth abdominal segment of male, ventral aspect. s, sternum ;
sc, sub-coxa ; st, stylet. x 28.
IX. Ninth abdominal segment of male, ventral aspect. sc, sub-
coxa ; st, stylet; g, gonapophysis; p. penis. The right sub-
coxa is partly broken away to expose the gonapophyses. x 28,
Royal College of Science, Dublin,
234 The Irish Naturalist. = =~ ~*~ ~—s~Decemiier,
NOTES,
ZOOLOGY.
The food of Silpha subrotundata.
MM. Fairmaire and Laboulbéne, in their ‘‘ Faune Entomologique Fran-
caise,’’ Tome I, state of Silpha atrata, L.:—‘‘Il fait, comme l’espéce pré-
cédente, la chasse aux limaces.’’ This observation I was never able to
verify till the present autumn. In September, at Coolmore, I found a
specimen of S. subrotundata sitting on a leaf of Black Knapweed (Cen-
taurea nigra, L.) and hard at work devouring a snail. The beetle was
holding the shell with its two front legs and thrusting its long narrow
head into the opening to devour the snail within. I had often noticed the
peculiar narrow shape of the head of S. subrotundata but I did not realise
till I saw it at work the meaning of the shape of its head. S. atrata L.
has the same shaped head and so has S. laciigata Fab., the latter being
the species referred to by MM. Fairmaire and Labouibéne in their remark
quoted above as “‘l’espéce précédente.”’ The same authors state of
S. dispar, Herbst, that ‘t is found ‘‘ au bord des meaies, ou il parait devorer
les petits mollusques.’’ It would thus appear that its food resembles
that of S. subrotundata, and it would be very interesting to observe its
mode of attacking its prey. The food of the other species of this genus
is varied. Thus S. rugosa, L. is always found in carrion, but S. opaca L.,
in the larval stage at any rate is frequently found attacking Mangold, vide
Professor Carpentetr’s reports of Injurious Insects for 1896 and 1907,
Economic Proceedings of Royal Dublin Society, where most interesting
accounts are given of the ravages of this insect. :
Canon Fowler says that S. quadripunctata, L., is found on oaks and
other trees, not in carcases, and that it feeds on the larvae of various
insects. The larvae of S. thoracica, L. are said to feed on decaying fungi ;
the perfect insect seems to have a partiality for fir plantations and feeds
on carrion. The genus may therefore with safety be said to be on the whole
one that is useful in destroying snails, larvae of insects and doing sanitary
work by removing decaying animal and vegetable matter like Charles
Kingsley’s spider-crab in ‘‘ Glaucus.”’
W. F. JOHNSON.
Poyntzpass.
Ravens on Brandon, County Kerry.
On Brandon, last June, on the cliffs below the summit, Ravens were
abundant. On one occasion I counted twelve, and two days later no
less than sixteen were seen together, playing in the air and performing
fantastic evolutions.
Dublin. R, LLoyp PRAEGER.
1913. Notes. 235
| White Wagtails on Migration observed at Inishtrahull.
White Wagtails were numerous on Inishtrahull during the latter
half of May, 1913. Iam indebted to Mr. Wright, Principal Keeper, for
sending me specimens ; some adolescent. others fully adult. The birds
continued to pass north until May 31st. On the 28th of that month
I received an adolescent specimen which would not have bred this year.
August 21st last was the earliest date on which I noticed the birds on this
island affecting the return move Seven appeared on that date, all
immature. Two of these I collected. On August 25th, I procured
an interesting specimen still retaining almost the entire nuptial plumage.
On Friday, August 29th, many White Wagtails appeared round the
lanterns, and 6 struck the glass ; one coliided, this night, with the kitchen
window. Since I first saw this species on August 21st, it has been of
very frequent occurrence up t> when I write, viz., September 12th.
University, Sheffield. C. J. PATTEN.
Nightjars at Sea.
During the cruises of the Department of Agriculture’s steam cruiser
Helga, I have observed Nightjars four times off the coasts of Ireland,
and each time by daylight. The first was seen on 19th August, 1905,
when we were fishing about helf a mile off Howth. It was blowing a
moderate gale from the west, about 30 to 35 miles an hour. The bird
had evidently been blown off shore and alighted on the ship for shelter
When frightened it took wing again and was gradually blown out to sea.
It flew as close as possible to the water, about a foot or two above it. as
if trying to get shelter behind the crests of the waves. On the 17th
May, 1910, when we were 84 miles west of the Bull Rock, a Nightjar was
seen and, as well as I remember, came on board ; at any rate, I have no
doubt about the identification. On the 11th May, 1912, when we
were 75 miles W.S.W. of the Fastnet, a bird flew round the ship, but
was too frightened to alight. It hovered close to the water showing the
white markings on the tail-feathers. I did not identify it at the time,
but I noted its appearance, and recognised it later as the same species
of bird which came on board in 1913. This occurred on the 5th May
last, when we were 30 miles W.S.W. of the Fastnet.
Dublin. G. P. FARRAN.
The Little Auk in August.
On August 30th a Little Auk was killed striking at the Aranmore light-
station, Co. Donegal, being the first occasion on which this species has
struck a lantern. On same date the Chief Inspector of Fisheries
(Mr. W. S. Green) saw a Little Auk in the Kenmare River. It looked,
he says, a “little out of sorts.’”’ Mr. Ussher has tabulated the monthly
occurrences of the Little Auk (‘‘ Birds of Ireland,” p. 368) and there are
no records for June, July, August, or September.
Ricup, M. BARRINGTON
Fassaroe, Bray.
236 The lrish Naturalist. December, 1913.
Dipper in County Longford.
In a letter in the Morning Post, last September, Rev. Sir George R.
Fetherston records the occurrence of the Dipper at Ardagh, Co. Longford.
Longford and Westmeath are the only two counties in Ireland from which,
according to the “‘ Birds of Ireland,’’ Mr. Ussher had no record for this
bird.
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The Shelly Drift of Glenulra and Belderrig, Co. Mayo S DE we
HINCH, a aia s 1 os eee ik as.
Irish Oligochaets.— REV. HILDERIC FRIEND, F.R.MS., ee sh Bie a
Some New Localities for Marine Algae.—J. Apams, M.A., foes ees Sys
REVIEW:
F. Balfour Browne's “Manx Coleoptera,” (J,N.H.) ‘i eye 4
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Irish Water-plants.—R. LL. PRAEGER, ee ar es 4
Ammi majus in Co, Down.—REv. CANON H. W. LETT, M.R,I.A., at i |
Plants of Antrim and Down.—R. LiL. PRAEGER. Me ote og
Formalin as an Insecticide.—J. CHAS. JOHNSON, M.A., Neos on ;
The Medicinal Leech in Ireland.—_H. WHITEHEAD, B.SC, .. ise
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Additions to “ Irish Topographical Botany ” in
R. Luoyp PRAEGER, a Se ieee
Nature Reserves.—Formation of a New Society,
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Catch Crops.
Potato Culture on Small Farms.
Cultivation of Main Crop Potatoes.
Cultivation of Osiers.
Ensilage.
Some Injurious Orchard Insects.
Dirty Milk.
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The Home Bottling of Fruit.
The Construction of Piggeries.
The Advantages of Early Ploughing,
Black Scab in Potatoes.
Home Preservation of Eggs.
Marketing Wild Fruits.
Cost of Forest Planting.
Store Cattle, or Butter, Bacon, and
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Weeds.
Tuberculosis in Poultry.
Seaweed as Manure.
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Scour and Wasting in Young Cattle.
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The Cultivation of Small Fruits.
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Some Injurious Orchard Insects.
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Black Scab in Potatoes.
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Cost of Forest Planting.
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OBITUARY : eo ergo
Richard John Ussher.—R. M. BARRINGTON, ‘M.A., LL. 5: ae
IRISH SOCIETIES : Seta
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The- Irish Species of Petrobins —Pror.- Grorce H. |
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