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The Irish Naturalist. 



November, 



Chaffinch (Fringilla ccelebs) : — 



I got only the weight of the last (e) ; it was quite rotten and broke, 

 all the yolk having gone into a hard ball. This may account for its 

 lightness, it had also lost nearly all its colour. 



WaTFR-HFN (Gallinula chloropus) : — 



Grains. Inch. Inch. 



(a) Weight 3 14 \ Measurements 1*69 x ri8 

 (b) 294 i-68 x 1-17 



Here we have a large difference in weight, and very little in dimensions. 

 Windsor, Belfast. 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



Salix herbacea in County Antrim. 



Bean D'Arcy is not quite correct in stating (/. N., x., 194) that Salix 

 herbacea had not been observed on Slievenanee since Templeton's time, 

 when he noted it there last summer. See '■ Irish Topographical Botany," 

 p. 285. 



R. Li*OYD PRAEGER. 



