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grows in Woodlands, rather than to Neottia. Yet Wade could hardly have 

 mistaken one plant for the other, and his record is supported by the 

 following from the MS. Flora of John Templeton, a more competent 

 authority: — "In I^uttrelstown wood, Co. Dublin, Mr. Brinkley ; ^ seen 

 in abundance by Dr. Taylor and m3^self, July, 1814." I have not myself 

 had an opportunity of looking for the plant in Woodlands at the proper 

 season, and it is most desirable that a thorough search should be made. 

 Perhaps some reader of the Irish Naturalist can refer me to a record 

 more recent than Templeton's. 



MaUenaria bifolia (R. Br.)— There does not appear to be any 

 definite recent record for this. The older records belong to a period be- 

 fore the species was limited by the separation from it of H. cJilorantha 

 (Bab.). There is nothing in the known Irish distribution of the plant to 

 make its appearance in the county improbable. 



I shall be happy to receive notes, accompanied by vSpecimens, 



of further County Dublin localities for any of the rarer 



orchids mentioned in these jottings, and more especially for 



either of the two which I have ventured to exclude from the 



actual county flora. 



13IRDS OBSERVED BREEDING ON THE COASTS 



OF SI.IGO AND MAYO. 



BY ROBKRT WARRKN. 

 (A Report laid before the Royal Irish Academy, 28th May, 1894.'^ 



[^Concluded from page 184.) 

 On reaching Belderig and stopping at the post-office and 

 public-house, I made enquiries about the eagles, but could 

 get no definite information about them, until a young keeper 

 from Glencalry, coming for letters, hearing my enquiries, ad- 

 vised me to see an old cliff-climber, named M'Andrew, who it 

 was said knew more about eagles than any man in the 

 countr}^ for he lived all his life near the cliff in which the 

 eyries were situated. The old man lived about three miles 

 away in the mountain, and the keeper offering to show me the 

 way to his house, we set off at half-past three, on our three 

 miles walk over two ranges of hills and through soft wet bog. 



1 Dr. Brinkley, Astronomer at Dunsink and afterwards Bishop of 

 Cloyne. He appears to have botanized a good deal in the County Dublin. 



