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congregate in little knots of three or four individuals on 

 the edges of precipices or rough stony places, and fly with 

 incredible swiftness to and fro within a circle of a few yards' 

 .diameter. When this charmed circle is approached too 

 closely, another is formed in a similar spot, where the same 

 merry gambols are kept up. I spent nearly an hour, so 

 shy were they, in securing a couple of specimens. Melan- 

 ihia (Mesoleuca) albicillata, Clifden, one example ; M. 

 hicolorata, common in Clifden Castle demesne. Aciptilia 

 pentadactyla, CJifden, common. 



Ealing Common, London. 



THE SURVEY OF CLARE ISLAND. 



JREPORT OF PROGRESS DURING I9II. 

 BY R. LLOYD PRAEGER. 



(A report laid before the Royal Irish Academy, 13th November, 1911). 



The third season's field-work began early, A. D. Cotton 

 went west on February 13 to study the winter alga flora 

 at Louisburgh and Achill Sound. He was followed on 

 March 7 by G. H. Wailes and James Murray. The latter 

 spent a week in collecting Bdelloid Rotifera and Arctiscoida 

 in Achill, Clare Island, and the Louisburgh district. Mr. 

 Wailes took up his residence on Clare Island, and remained 

 there till June 3 working at the Rhizopoda, and collecting 

 not only on Clare Island, but in Achill, at Roonah, and on 

 Caher Island, Inishturk, and Inishbofin, the result being 

 one of the most complete list of Rhizopods ever formed for 

 a single district. He was joined for a few days in March 

 by R. M. Harrington, who studied the birds of the island. 



On April 13 J. S. Dunkerly and G. O. Sherrard went 

 down for a week, and, using Belclare as head-quarters, 

 collected Infusoria and Nematodes respectively. 



The first combined party of the season left Dublin for 

 the island on April 27. It included Sir H. C. Hawley 



