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Erigone atra, Bl. (female). 

 Pachygnatha Clerckii Sund. 



(female). 

 Tetragnatha Solandrii, Scop. 



(3 males). 



Baily, Co. Dublin. 



Lycosa ruricola, de Gecr. (2 



females). 

 Pardosa amentata, CI. (3 



males, 2 females). 

 Pirata i)iraticus, CI. (2 females). 



NOTES. 



ZOOLOGY. 



The Breeding- of the Roseate Tern in Ireland. 



In June of this year I was fortunate enough to discover a large colony 

 of Roseate Terns (Sterna Dougilli) breeding on an island off the Irish 

 coast. I reckoned the numbers to be between 100 and 150 paus, which 

 were nesting along with about 20 pairs of the Sandwich Tern and a few of 

 the common species. So far as I am aware, only two other colonies of 

 this rare Tern are known to exist in Ireland, one of which I have visited. 

 This Tern seldom lays more than one egg, and it is characteristic of the 

 bird that, where possible, it ^yill conceal its " nest " under over-arching 

 stems of bent or grass, a habit which I have not observed in any other 

 members of this family. 



C. V. Stoney. 

 Raphoe. 



The Breeding- of the Fulmar Petrel in Ireland. 



Having seen in the Irish Naturalist of last month a statement by 

 Mr. Stendall that he had received from Rathlin Island what he believed 

 to be the first Irish-taken egg of the Fulmar {Fulmarus glacialis) it may be 

 of interest to learn that as long ago as May, 191 1, I discovered this bird 

 breeding on the stags of Broadhaven, and obtained an egg there. I 

 announced the fact to the late R. J. Ussher. In the same year Fulmars 

 bred at Horn Head, Co. Donegal, for the first time, though they had fre- 

 quented the cliffs of that place for at least two years previously. There 

 are now some 30 pairs breeding at Horn Head, as well as on some of the 

 larger islands of the Donegal coast, and they have extended their breeding 

 range to the South-Western coast and islands of Ireland. It is interesting 

 to notice that within recent years several species, such as the Eider Duck, 

 Red-necked Phalarope and Fulmar, whose breeding stations are in the 

 Far North, have come to make their Summer home in our island 



C. V. Stoney. 



Raphoe. 



