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P. fimetarius, Grav. — I^owry's Ivough, Palace Demesne — not common. 

 P. sangfuinolentus, Grav. — Mullinure, not common. 

 P. varians, Payk. — Common throughout district. 

 P. ventralis, Grav. — Beech Hill, Mullinure, not common. 

 P. discoideus, Grav. — In a hotbed in garden of H. M. Prison, Armagh. 

 P. quisquiliarius, Gyll. — I^owry's Lough, Loughnashade, Mullinure. 

 var. dimidiatiis, Steph. — Lowry's Lough, under stones on edge of 

 lake, not common. 

 P. nigrita, Nord. — dowry's Lough, Mullinure, common. 

 P. micans, Grav. — Mullinure, Drummanbeg Lake, not common. 

 P. trossulus, Nord. — Common throughout district. 

 P. puella, Nord. — Palace Demesne, Folly, not common. 



(TO BEJ CONTINUED.) 



REVIEW 



Harrow Birds. By G. K. H. Barrbtt-HamiIvTon. Harrow: sold by 

 J. C. Willbee, for the Harrow School Scientific Society. 



In a convenient and well-printed little book of fifty pages, our youthful 

 author has given a most interesting list of a hundred and ninety-eight 

 Birds which have been ascertained to occur in the neighbourhood of 

 Harrow School. Of these, to quote from the Preface, "Fifty- five are 

 partially or wholly resident, twenty-seven are regular summer visitors, 

 about twenty-two appear annually on migration, or in winter, and the 

 remaining ninety-four are visitors of rare or accidental occurrence. The 

 species which breed regularly number eighty- two." 



To an Irish ornithologist, the most interesting species will be those 

 which do not occur at all in Ireland. Such are the Dartford Warbler, 

 Nuthatch, Tree Pipit, andCirl-bunting, all of which are indicated as b feeding 

 in the small district contained within a radius of five miles round Har- 

 row. The Whinchat, Redstart, Garden Warbler, Woodwren, Nightin- 

 gale, Lesser Whitethroat, Reed-warbler, Marsh Titmouse, Red-backed 

 Shrike, Hawfinch, Carrion Crow ,Woodlark, Wryneck, three Wood- 

 peckers, Stock Dove and Turtle Dove, all very . rare in Ireland, are 

 given as breeding, most of them regularly, in the vicinity of Harrow. 

 And if, as long ago suggested by Swainson, we accept the small warblers 

 as the birds most characteristic of a fauna, there are here enough to show 

 how widely even so small a district as Harrow differs from any similar 

 locality that might be selected in any part of Ireland. The County of 

 Middlesex is very favourably situated, both on account of its proximity 

 to the European Continent, and being in the south-east of England, it 

 no doubt receives a larger number of the summer migrants. The fauna of 

 Middlesex is a rich one, even for England, and it has been thoroughly ex- 

 plored by many competent observ^ers, among whom we are glad to include 

 Mr. Barrett-Hamilton, who, in this little book, has shown himself to be 

 also an excellent compiler. Relying chiefly on Mr. Hartiug's well-known 

 work, the "Birds of Middlesex," our author has added many useful ob- 

 servations of his own, and he has been fortunate in finding several cor- 

 respondents as much interested in ornithology as himself. He has thus 

 been enabled to draw up what might be called quite a model list, well 

 arranged, well digested, and most admirably printed. The breeding 

 Birds are distinguished by an asterisk, which enables the reader at once 

 to pick out the species most important in the fauna, and we have no 

 doubt that this little book, besides being very useful to the members of 

 Harrow School, will be perused with interest by many more general 

 readers, especially by those who are elsewhere engaged in drawing up 

 local catalogues, and we hope that some of the other large public schools 

 will follow the example which has been so well set by Harrow. 



A. G. M. 



