So The h'isJi Naturalist. 



Ball observed the motion of the front feet across the face to accompany 

 the chirping ; she suggests that possibly the transverse ridges on the 

 face have a part in producing the note. The edge of the face seems, 

 however, more probably the part concerned, as it would be more easily 

 reached by the feet than would the front. — G.H.C.] 



MOLLUSCS. 



Testacella haliotldea, F. Big., in Co. Dublin.— Mr. Burbidge 

 recently discovered this species in one of the greenhouses of Trinity Col- 

 lege Botanic Gardens. The difference in the shell between T. haliotidea 

 and T. scuiuht/n is so slight that an anatomical examination is necessary 

 for a diagnosis of the species. As I was able to convince myself, this 

 specimen is undoubtedly T. haliotidea, so that we have in it an addition to 

 the fauna of Go. Dublin. Hitherto this species had been known only 

 from Youghal, Cork, and Bandon. 



R. F. SCHARFi^, Dublin. 



MAMMALS. 



Irish Rat (IVIus hibernicus Thomps.) at Lougrh Brickiand, 

 Co. Down. — Having been told that black rats lived in some fields on 

 the north margin of Lough Brickland, which is close to my glebe house, 

 I offered a reward for one, but none turned up in the course of several 

 years. However, to-da}-, 5th February, 1895, when some members of ni}' 

 family were returning from skating on the above lough a black rat, a 

 male, was found on the road near their reputed haunt. It was just dead 

 and bore no marks of how it had lost its life. Having been brought to 

 me, I now enclose it. 



H. W. Lett, 

 Aghaderg, lyougbrickland. 



GEOLOGY. 



On Saturday evening, 12th January, Prof. G. A.J. Cole commenced his 

 second course of geological lectures delivered under the auspices of the 

 Belfast Naturalists' Field Club. In spite of exceptionally inclement 

 weather there was a large attendance. We hear that the number of ap- 

 plications for the practical class which is held after each lecture has been 

 in excess of the available accommodation. 



Kitchen lYIiddens of Donegal. — I think Mr. Kinahan and Mr. 

 Welch have not observed my first and second reports to the Royal Irish 

 Academy on " Pre-historic Remains from the Sandhills of the Coast of 

 Ireland," read T4th January, 1889, and i2tli January, 1891. In these I 

 report pottery from pre-historic sites at Buncrana, Dunfanaghy, Bunbeg, y^ 

 and Bundoran. I have since found pottery at Ballyness and Portsalon. ^ 



W. J. Knoavi.KS, Ballymena, 



Kitchen IVIIddens of Antrim.— Among the various remains from 

 the pre historic sites of Co. Antrim I reported to the Royal Irish Academy 

 in January, 1891, the finding of bones of the Great Auk. I have since 

 fonnd some more bones of that bird, which leads me to believe that it 

 was a native of the north of Ireland when the people of the stone age 

 lived there. I have not seen any notice of this find in the Irish Naturalist. 



W. J. Knowlks, Ballymena. 



Glacial Deposits of Dublin and Bray. — In the Proc. Liverpool 

 Geol. Soc. (Vol. vii., pp. 183-206), Mr. T. Mellard Reade has an interesting 

 paper on observations on the glacial deposits around Dublin, made 

 during a visit in the summer of 1893. The conclusions which Mr. Reade 

 has come to regarding the origin of these beds have been already set 

 forth in a paper which he contributed to the Irish Naturalist (1894, pp. 

 1 17-121, 150-153). The paper is illustrated by some excellent sketches and 

 diagrams. 



