74 The Irish Naturalist. March, 



Common Dolphin in Belfast Lough. 



On the 18th and 19th inst. there was hanging up at Messrs. Sawers, 



Fishmongers, Belfast, a specimen of the Common Dolphin, Delphinus 



delphis, sl feet long and stated to have been captured off Trooper's-lane, 



that is between Greenisland and Carrickfergus on the Co. Antrim shore 



of Belfast Lough. I have not seen this species here before nor have I 



any record of its capture in this lough. 



R. Lloyd Patterson. 



Holy wood, Co. Down. 



Probable occurrence of the Lesser Rorqual on the coast of 



Co. Wexford. 



Through the kindness of Mr. Thomas Gould, Station Officer, Coast- 

 guard Station, Ballymoney, Co. Wexford, I am enabled to record the 

 stranding of a cetacean, almost certainly Balcenofitera rostrata, on the 

 coast south of Duffcarrick, Co. Wexford, on October 8th, 1900. The 

 length of the animal is said to have been thirty, its circumference 

 twenty feet. The colour was dark above, but the stomach and underside 

 of the tail were white. Although I have not seen this specimen or any 

 portion of it, Mr. Gould's description is so clear that there can hardly be 

 any doubt as to the species to which he alludes. As may be learned by 

 a reference to Dr. Scharff's paper in the Irish Naturalist of April, 1900, 

 p. 86, the Lesser Rorqual is "probably common all round the Irish 

 coast." I have myself recorded the stranding of specimens on Kerry 

 (/. Nat., October, 1891^, and Cork (May, 1898) coasts. 



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



Kilmanock, Arthurstown. 



BOTANY. 



Irish Hawkweeds. 



Among some recently collected Hawkweeds kindly named for me by 



Mr. F. J. Hanbury, F.L.S., is H. proximum, F. J. Hanb., which is on 



record from Donegal only (Hart's Flor. Don.) I gathered it last June at 



Poulaphouca on both banks of the Liffey (Wicklow and Kildare) and 



traced it down the stream to the falls above Ballymore Eustace (Kildare) , 



The plant grows plentifully in these stations. Another rare form is 



H. sciaphilum, Uechtritz, hitherto recorded from only one Irish station 



(Saintfield, Down). I have it from Cahir, S. Tipperary, 1900, and railway 



bank at the Curragh, Kildare, 1897. Additional district-records for 



Cybeh are given by the following: — H. iricum, Fr. — V. Carlingford 



Mountain, Louth, 1893, H. lasiophyllum,YLoo.h.. — VI. Menlo, N.E. Gal way, 



1899 ; VIII. Lough Corrib near Bleanoran, West Galway, 1899 ; the 



previous records of this plant were confined to Ulster. H. murorum, L. 



pt. — III. Maryborough, Queen's Co., 1896. H. stenokpis, Lindeb. — IX. 



Lough Gill, Co. Leitrim ; and (apparently this) from Carrowkee Hill, 



Sligo, 1897. H. vulgatum, Fr., Maryborough, Queen's Co., 1896 — the var. 



inaculeatum. 



R. Li<oyd PraEGER. 

 Dublin. 



