56 The Inih NatH)alist. February, 1909. 



Pisidium personatum, Malen, an addition to the Irish fauna. 



In tlie Frocecdings of the Malacological Society of London ^ Vol. viii., October, 

 1908, p. 124, Mr. B. B. Woodward records the above species, which had 

 liitherto been grouped under Pisidium nitidum Jcnyns. He does not 

 state the characters in which it differs from /*. ;/?V/f/«w, but states that 

 lie had seen examples from Glenshesk (Antrim), Enagh Lough (Derry), 

 MacDara's Island (Oalway), Brown's Bay (Sligo), and Portmarnock 

 (Dublin). It seems therefore widely distributed over Ireland. 



Pleurophyllidia Loveni — a Correction. 



In a short paper read before the Zoological Section of the Belfast 

 Naturalists' Field Club on the 9th December, giving the results of m}- 

 last summer's dredging in Belfast Lough on behalf of the Ulster 

 Fisheries and Biologj' Association, I announced the discovery of a 

 specimen of that rare marine slug, P.Lo7jeni, in a small bay outside Bangor. 

 I was under the impression at the time that my specimen was the first 

 one taken in Irish waters. My attention, however, has been called to a 

 note in the Irish Naturalist for 1893, p. 176, where the animal is recorded 

 as being taken in Bantr}- Bay; it is also mentioned, I find, in Nichols* 

 "Marine Mollusca cf Ireland." I hasten, therefore, to correct my mis- 

 take, which was quite inadvertently made, as I have no desire to deprive 

 the first discoverer of his laurels. I ma)' add that I was indebted to 

 Professor Gregg Wilson. INI.R.I.A., of Queen's University, Belfast, for the 

 animaVs identification ; Dr. Wilson also kindly hunted up the literature 

 on the species. 



\\'. II. Gat. T. WAY. 



Bangor. Co. Down. 



Late Stay of the Swallow. 



A Swallow was seen and, I much regret to say, shot near Clondalkin, 

 County Dublin, on the 9th December. It was an immature bird, but not 

 one of a late brood, judging by the length of the outer tail-feathers. 



W. J. WlI.TJAMS. 



Dublin. 



Turtle Dove near Londonderry. 



C'- / 



On ist December a Turtle Dove {7u?'tur commufiis) was brought to me. 

 It was shot on 30th November at Derry vane, near Muff, Co. Donegal, 

 about five miles from Derry, by Mr. Robt. Wylie. It had frequented 

 the neighbourhood for some days in company with Wood Pigeon.s, and 

 was very wild. It was a male, and in fine adult plumage. 



Londonderry. 1>. C. Campbki,!,, 



