136 The Irish Naturalist. [June, 



fields, or going along the country road — a considerable dis- 

 tance from the sea — either day or night. The mother bird 

 can also be heard. 



All those birds — the hundreds on the water at the Tearasrlit 

 in January, the one I sent Mr. Barrington, the one I have 

 still in my own possession, the five or six on the island 

 in June, those I observed at the Copeland Islands and at 

 Kingstown Harbour — had the beak exactly alike, and not fully 

 developed. Where do they breed ? Well, I remarked already 

 that five or six were on the Tearaght at the breeding season, 

 and if the matter was looked after it might be found that they 

 have some particular part of the coast, or some particular 

 islands, where they breed ; and the fact that I saw their young 

 with them at Donaghadee and Kingstown, would show that 

 they breed somewhere on the coast. 



These are my impressions of the * 'voting Razorbill," and I 

 have at last carried out the resolve which has been a long time 

 in my mind to commit them to paper. 



Dublin. 



PROCEEDINGS OF IRISH SOCIETIES, 



Royal Zoological Society. 



Recent gifts include a Peregrine Falcon and a Kestrel from Surgeon 

 H. Brooinfield, and a West African Chevrotain from Mr. D H. Donovan. 

 A pair of Coypus, a pair of Ocelots, nine monkeys, two dozen tortoises 

 and five dozen small birds have been bought. 



19,311 persons visited the Gardens during April. 



Dublin Microscopical Club. 



April 27. — The Club met at Leinster House. Prof. T. Johnson in the 

 chair. It was proposed by Mr. F. W. Moore, seconded by Mr. W. N. 

 Allen, and resolved : — 



"That the members of the Dublin Microscopical Club desire to 

 express their great regret at the death of their President, Dr. William 

 Frazer. one of the original members of the Club." 



The meeting then adjourned without further business. 



