2io The If isJi Naturalist. [September, 



MAMMALS. 



Supposed Occurrence of the Lesser Rorqual in 



the Swilly. 



With reference to the note which appeared on page 30 of the current 

 volume of the Irish Naturalist, might I suggest that, as the cetacean in 

 question has not yet been identified, and that there is nothing to show 

 in the note that it may not prove, when identified, to be quite another 

 species, the title " Cesser Rorqual in the Swill)'" is distinctly mis- 

 leading, and likely to give a very erroneous impression to many readers ? 



But this is not my only complaint. On the previous page of the same 

 number there is a letter from the correspondent who is responsible 

 for the note to which I have already referred, in which he compares the 

 stranding of the supposed Lesser Rorqual with that of a Black Fish on 

 the same beach, and draws deductions therefrom as to the composition 

 of the Irish fauna ! 



From whatever point of view we regard them, the printing of such 

 uncertain communications in the Irish Naturalist, to which we all look for 

 an example of scrupulous accuracy, is deplorable, and I trust that some 

 small amends will shortly be made by the correction or confirmation of 

 the objectionable note. 



G. E. H. Barrktt-Hamii/ton. 



Kilmauock, Arthurstown, Waterford. 



GEOLOGY. 



Pleistocene Fossils from Co. Antrim. 



In working out a small parcel of washings of the Estuarine Clay 



of Magheramorne, collected by myself, I find a number of unnoticed items 



that may be interesting to put on record as additional to the fauna of 



Estuarine Clay at this place. 



Decapoda — Cancer pagurus, Carcinas nuenas, Pilumnus hirtellus, Port units 

 corrugatus, P. pusillus, all represented by their chelae. 



KnTomostraCA— Cytlicrc albomaculata (1 valve)), C. convexa (frequent), 

 C. I u tea (mostly female), Cpellucida (1 valve), C. villosa (rare). Loxoeoncha 

 impressa (few, mostly male), Pontocypris my ti bides (few), Zestotebris depressa 

 (2 valves). 



RAlfANlD.'E — Verruca stromia, Balanus sp. 



EcillNODERMATA — Eeliinus eseu'eu/us, E. mi/iaris, E. norvegicus, Echinoear- 

 diuni cordatus, all in detached plates and spines. 



A.NNJSI/IDA— Spirorbis corrugatus^ S. heterosirophus. 



MoiJ,USCA — Aclis supranitida, Fissureila graca t Homabgyra atomus, II. rota 

 (v.r.), leffeysia opalina, Pherusa gulsone 1 Rissoa cancellata, Skenea 

 planorbis, Trochus {Solarium) acutangulatum. (I figured in the Proc. 

 Yorkshire Phil. Soc. in 1S93 one of several examples collected 

 in the interglacial deposit at Selsey, in Sussex, which M. Dolfuss 

 thought might be a Mediterranean form ; I am unable to correlate 

 it with the young of any Northern shell, and as I have found 

 several specimens believe it to be an overlooked Irish shell.) 



