230 The Irish Naturalist, November, 



Sisyrinchium angustifolium on Lough Erne. 



When inspecting a farm on 2nd August, 1898, in the townland of 

 Derryvore, adjoining Upper Lough Erne, I observed a blue flower among 

 the grass on the lake shore. I thought at first that it was a flax blossom, 

 but on examination found that it was one which I had never seen before. 

 Accordingly I brought home some of the plants. I brought a specimen 

 shortly afterwards to Mr. F. W. Moore, who at once identified it as 

 Sisyrinchium angustifolium (otherwise anceps, or Bermndianuni). I brought 

 growing plants to Mr. Moore the following spring, which, I believe, are 

 at present in the Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin. I have some of the 

 original plants still, which have flowered every year since. Derryvore 

 is a promontory at the western side of Upper Lough Erne, near its 

 southern end, and lies about five miles from and nearly due north of 

 Belturbet. I was informed that this plant was as plentiful on the 

 western side of the promontory, as it was on the eastern side where I found 

 it. I am well acquainted with this locality, and know of no place from 

 which Sisyrinchium would have been likely to reach Derryvore, which is 

 in a very isolated situation. 



W. A. Barnes. 



Westland, Kells. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Monkfish in Belfast Lough. 



On September 23rd my friend Mr. Arthur Hill Coates, of Bangor, 

 brought me a specimen of Squatina angelus, which had been taken in a 

 trawl on the Cultra ground of the lough by J. Lance, a Bangor retired 

 coastguard, on 21st inst. None of the Bangor men knew it, and it was 

 taken to \V. Scott, the fishmonger there, who, not knowing it either, 

 sent it on to me. This was only the third specimen I had ever seen, and 

 the first local example. It was but a small one, 2i£ inches long by 10^ 

 inches broad, and was much lighter in colour than the larger examples 

 (from Portrush and Magilligan respectively) which I had seen before. 



The latter of these two was sent on 9th June, 1893, by the proprietor 

 of an important fishery there, who had never seen one before— another 

 proof of the extreme rarity of the fish in North of Ireland waters. 



R. Leoyd Patterson. 

 Holywood. 



Tawny Owl in Co. Antrim. 



It may be of interest to record that another of the introduced Tawny 

 Owls (see Irish Nat.,?.., 24, 72) was shot at Dunmurry on October 1st. 

 It had so annoyed the gentleman on whose ground it was shot, by its 

 nightly hooting, that he offered a pound for its destruction — a contingency 

 not anticipated by the introducer ! 



Robert Patterson. 



Belfast. 



