Vol. xviii., No. 7. July, 1909. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



On the Occurrence of a Speckled Otter i,n Ireland. — R. F. 



ScHARFF, M.R. r.A., (Plate 2), .. ., 141 



Paludestrina confusa, an addition to the Irish Fauna. — R. A. 



X HlL,r«IPSj •• •• •• .. •• .. ., a, ^4-^ 



Mosses and Liverworts from Co. Fermanagh and Slieve League, 



Co. Donegal. — David M'Ardle, .. 144 



On some Irish Hawkweeds. — Rev. C. H. WaddeIvL, B.D., .. 149 



Lastrea remota in Ireland. — R. Ll. Praeger, .. .. .. 151 



Reviews : 



Theobald's ''Insect Pests of Fruits " (G. H. C.) .. .. .. 153 



Praeger's '• Flora of West of Ireland."— (Rev. E. S. Marshal!,.) . . 154 



Notes : 



British Vegetation Committee, .. .. .. .. ,. 156 



Splachnum vasculosum not an Irish Plant.— Rev. C. H. Waddeli,, . . 156 



Habenaria intacta in West Galway. — W. J. C. Tomlinson, . . . . 156 



Do Rabbits eat Arum maculatum .^— R. M. Barrington, FX.S., G. H. 



Pethybridge, Ph.D., .. .. .. .. .. .. 157 



Lankester's Treatise on Zoology. — F. A. Bather, D.Sc. F.R.S., .. 158 



Viviparus (dead shell) in Co. Limerick. — Harry Fogerty, . . . . 159 



Nests of Land Birds in Holes on Marine Islands. — R. J. Ussher, D.L, 159 



The Snowy Owl— A Correction. — R. J. Ussher, D.L., . . . . 160 



Irish Stoat with Nine Young.— R. F. Scharff, Ph. D., . . . . 160 



Irish Societies: 



Royal Zoological Society, . . . . . . . . . . ,., 160 



Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, ,^ . . ... .... . . i6o 



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