88 The Irish Naturalist. March, 1903. 



NOTES. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Wild Swans in Donegal. 



Referring to Mr. Warren's notes on above, I may mention that a flock 



of about a dozen swans frequented the inland water at Inch, Lough S willy, 



all last summer. The flock varied in numbers from 6 to 14. I went 



specially to Inch to identify them and found they were Mute Swans. 



They were rather wild, and it was hard to get nearer them than 100 



yards. 



D. C Campbei.1,. 

 Londonderry. 



I think it highly probable that the swans seen by Mr. W. B. Hart in 

 July were a small flock of tame swans which arrived at the "intake" 

 water at Inch Level about the time he mentions. After a few days several 

 of them left, but six remained, and are there still. They are all mature 

 birds. Shortly after their arrival I examined them with a good field 

 glass, and convinced myself that they were tame Swans. Wild vSwans 

 visit Inch in considerable numbers every winter, but do not usually 

 appear before December. 



J. R. Lkebody. 



Londonderry. 



Albino Monkey in the Dublin Zoological Gardens. 



Last year Captain Reeves observed in Rhodesia, near the hill on which 

 the remains of the late Mr. Rhodes lie buried, a curious white monkey'. 

 With much trouble he succeeded in capturing it, and wdien he returned 

 to Ireland he brought it back with him, and very kindly presented it to 

 the Gardens belonging to the Ro3'al Zoological Society of Ireland. 



Although a native of South Africa, it deserves a notice in the hish 

 Naturalist as a member of the Irish introduced fauna. 



The pure white fur and the red eyes show at once that this monkey 

 is a perfect albino, scarcely a trace of colouring matter being found in 

 the skin. Never before has an albino monkey been brought to Ire- 

 land, and it is probably for the first time that such a specimen has 

 ever been received by any Zoological Garden. 



The long tail, short front limbs, and the general contour of the 

 monkey are those of a Cnropitheais. As regards the species to which 

 it belongs, this is a more difficult matter, as the colour forms the chief 

 distinguishing character of the thirty diff"erent kinds of monkeys 

 grouped in this genus. But to judge from the size and general shape, 

 and also from the localit}' in which the monkey was obtained, it seems 

 to me to be a Vervet {C. Lalandi)^ which species is frequently brought 

 to Europe from South Africa. 



R. F. SCHARFP. 



Publin Museum. 



