n6 The Irish Natura list. May, 1901. 



The Grey Phalarope. 



I read with interest Dr. Patten's excellent article on this bird in the 

 March number of the Irish Naturalist ; and looking up my own notes I 

 find five records of it within the last twenty years, viz. : — 



On 26th October, 1S81, Mr. Frank Griffin brought me one which had 

 been shot on the foreshore of the lough that day. It was one of two 

 together. 



On 6th October, 1883, my nephews, Robert Patterson and W. E. 

 Praeger, brought me one which had been shot on the lough near Grey- 

 point that day. 



On 18th October, 1891, Captain Bruce, of Toomebridge, sentmeone which 

 had been shot on Lough Neagh a day or two previously ; and he 

 mentioned that he had got a similar bird about five years before. 



On the 20th October, 1891, Mr. D. C. Campbell, of Derry, wrote me that 

 he had seen two Grey Phalaropes, one shot on the shore of Lough Foyle 

 near Greencastle, Co. Donegal, on 10th October: and the other caught 

 alive " up the road" near the same place a few days later. It will be 

 noticed that all these occurrences took place in October, and the three 

 ast within a week ; one in Co. Down, one in Co. Antrim, and three in Co. 

 Donegal; one in fresh and four in salt water. 



R. Lloyd Patterson. 

 Holywood. 



IRISH SOCIETIES. 



ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Recent gifts include a Godwit and a Knot from Mr. R. Warren, and 

 three White Swans from Sir J. F. Dillon. 



BELFAST NATURAL HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHICAL 



SOCIETY. 



April 2. — A meeting was held in the Museum, when a lecture was 

 delivered by Grorgr Coffry, M.R.I. A., on the "Antiquity of Man 

 and the Dawn of Art." 



BELFAST NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB. 



March 19. — The Vice-President, Mr. W. H. Phillips, read a paper 

 entitled "My Hobby about Ferns, and its Results; Personal Remi- 

 niscences." 



April 16.— Mr. A. M'l. ClRland read a paper on " A Recent Tour of 

 the Roman Wall," illustrated by lantern slides. 



