1909. N'ofes. 1 83 



NOTES. 



ZOOLOGY. 



White Wagtail on the East Coast. 



Reg.^rding Mr. Williams' statement {Irish A^at.. vol. xviii, page 121), 

 that no occurrence of the White W'agtail {Motacilla aZ/ia) has been authen- 

 ticated from the east coast of Ireland, I would refer him to the IrisJi 

 Naturalist for 1902, page 221, where he will find that Mr. Xevin H. Foster 

 and I saw a White Wagtail on the River Lagan on the 2Jst May of that 



year. 



Robert PATrERvSox. 

 Holy wood, Co. Down. 



Golden Oriole in Co. Cork. 



On the 26th April we received a very fine specimen (adult male) of the 

 Golden Oriole for preservation. The bird was shot on 24th inst. on 

 the Bantry road, three miles outside Dunmanway, and was in faultless 

 condition, hardly a feather of the beautiful saffron colouring being 

 disturbed. It is now some years since one has been recorded in the 

 South, and we certainly think that a finer specimen has not been 

 obtained. 



F. R. RoHU. 



Cork. 



The Little Gull. 



Regarding Mr. Harrington's reference to the Little Gull, reported 

 from Cork, we might state that this has been verified beyond 

 question ; the bird was shot last year at Tralee by a Mr. Mabbs, and 

 was also seen in the flesh by several ornithologists. The bird was 

 purchased and set up by us, aud is still in our possession. 



F. R. RoHU. 

 Cork. 



I much regret that the short note on the occurence of the Little Gull 

 at Laytown, which appears in the Irish Naturalist for April over my 

 name, is incorrect. It is an immature bird and not an adult as stated, 

 and the date should have been February 7th and not March 7th. A 

 mistake, whether the explanation of it be good or bad, is still a mis- 

 take, and excuses are not good remedies ; therefore I shall only 

 observe that nobody is to blame except myself, and that the distinction 

 between the immature and adult in Lams minutus is so well marked 

 that it could readily be detected, even on the wing, within gun-shot 

 range, and it is as readily perceived as the difference between the young 

 and old Black-headed Gulls seen almost daily on the Liffe}-, 



RiCHD. M. Barrington. 

 Fassaroe, Bray. 



