I9I9. 



BURKITT. — The Wren. S9 



Of course in order to delimit the domains of these birds 

 and to be certain the same male belonged to a series of 

 nests, and that a bird at any observation was a male 

 {i.e. sings) a large amount of trouble w?£ required. It 

 was not guess work. 



Many readers of the Irish Naturalist must have had 

 experiences which would apply to these notes one way or 

 another. Perhaps they will think it worth while to give 

 them if the editors permit. 



Enniskillen. 



ERIOPHORUM LATIFOLIUM IN COUNTY DUBLIN, 



WITH SOME NOTES ON THE RARER 



COUNTY SPECIES. 



BY REGINALD W. SCULLY. 



In the following list the numerals preceding the localities 

 refer to the Districts as defined by Mr. Colgan in his Flora 

 of the County ; a cross (+) is added when the plant is 

 believed to be new to the District. 



Sisymbrium Sophia. 1-8. One plant by roadside half a mile south of 



Ballybrack village, 191 8. 

 Lepidium Draba. [-8. Six or seven plants by roadside south of Stepaside, 



1918. 

 Viola lutea. — 7. Still in two or three spots near the summit of the old 



Mount Seskin Road, 1919. 

 Trigonella ornithopodioides. — 8. A patch of about ten good plants on 



Dalkey Island, one of them being a foot in diameter with over 50 



shoots, an aldermanic specimen, 1919 ; J. P- Brunker. Not seen 



in this district for over 80 years, 

 Trifolium medium. [-6. One big patch on right of roadside about a 



mile west of Jobstown, 191 8. — 8. Sparingly by roadside near Foxrock 



railway station, 191 2. 

 Chaerophyllum temulum. — 8. In fair quantity by a hedge on the Old 



Connaught-Crinken Road, 191 8. This is probably Mr. Barrington's 



Old Connaught station of 1868. 



