164 1 he Irish Naturalist. August, 1901, 



Arrival of the Swift at Londonderry. 



On reading Mr. Moffat's most interesting notes on the arrival of the 

 Swifts (Cypselus a pus) at Dublin, I looked up my notes since 1892 to find 

 the dates of their arrival here, and I think no other migrant keeps so 

 well up to time. Frequently a single pioneer bird appears a few days 

 before the host arrives. 



The following are the dates of arrival at Londonderry: — 



Slaughter of Sea-birds. 



I wish to call attention to the flagrant breach of the Wild Birds Act by 

 persons shooting sea-gulls on Sunday from the public road at Sutton — 

 a three-fold offence. Let anyone walk along there at low-water and say 

 if the sea-gulls, for their services, do not merit our protection as much as 

 dogs in Constantinople or the Adjutants in India. 



W. K. Hart. 



Howth. 



[Where are the police ? — Eds.] 



(Enistis quadra on Carlingford Mountain. 



This rare and local moth has been discovered in a highland and 

 northern locality by Mr. N. Colgan, who forwarded on July 22nd a female 

 specimen to the Dublin Museum, stating that he had picked it up a few 

 days previously near the top of Carlingford Mountain, Co. Louth, at an 

 elevation of about 1,800 feet. Hitherto this insect has occurred only in 

 a few of our southern counties — Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, and 

 Limerick. 



G. H. Carpenter. 



