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in the southern counties, but it is not known to nest there." I well 

 remember what pleasure I got when I first saw a Hoopoe in the wild state, 

 it was flying across the Arab cemetery outside Constantine, Algeria. 



W. H. Workman. 

 Windsor, Belfast. 



Wood Wren in Fermanagh. 



On 1 8th May, 191 7, INIr. H. E. Rathborne heard and saw a Wood- Wren, 

 Phylloscopits sibilatrix, near the north shores of Lough Erne. 1 was 

 unfamiliar with the bird but along with him saw it, still keeping to the 

 same spot, on the 28th May. Between then and the 7th June 

 Mr. Rathborne had heard either this bird or another one about half a 

 mile away. But on the 7th June we could find neither bird. For the 

 short time we watched it we detected no mate. I much regret I had 

 not time to spare to find out if there was a nest. When heard its song 

 was constant, interspersed with call notes. 



J. P. BURKITT. 



Enniskillen. 



BOTANY. 



Cardamine amara in East Tyrone. 



This plant, in Ireland confined to Ulster where it is rare and local, has 

 been already recorded from this county [Irish Naturalist, February, 19 15.) 

 In the early summer of this year (1917) some time was devoted to working 

 out its distribution in this locality. Its headquarters appear to be a 

 marshy meadow on a small tributary of the Ballinderry River about 

 four miles from the town of Cookstown ; in this meadow it grows in 

 great abundance accompanied by such plants as Caltha and various 

 species of Carex and in drier ground with Geum rivale. It next appears 

 in Tullylagan demesne, in many spots along this same stream generally 

 on some sandy bank ; it has also invaded a " made bank " here, constructed 

 to prevent the river from eating away the soil ; and grows among the 

 dry sward, and there is a large bed of it again at a wier half a mile below 

 Tullylagan bridge. Further down stream it occurs here and there in 

 Loughry demesne, but not in any great quantity. I also re-discovered 

 it on the Ballinderry River near the old church of Derryloran, close to 

 Cookstown; this must be the station noted in "Irish Topographical 

 Botany " from " Flora of Ulster" and misspelt Derryloan. The formation 

 underlying the bed of this stream is Carboniferous sandstone. 



Thomas Greer. 

 Curglasson, Stewartstown, Co. Tyrone. 



