136 The Irish Naturalist. Nov.-Dcc, 1919. 



It seems likely that the snail has been carried down, probably attached 

 to floating weeds, from a more inland place. The reason for this surmise 

 is that the species has been recorded from Maynooth in County Kildare, 

 but I have been unable to find out if it occurred actually in the canal 

 or in neighbouring ponds. The rare water beetle Harmonia appendiculata 

 is a case in pointy the first Irish specimens having been discovered many 

 years ago in the canal at the Hill of Down, County Meath, and it is now 

 known to occur in another part of the canal close to Dublin. This is, 

 however, a very difficult insect to detect on account of the wonderfully 

 protective colouring and a habit of clinging tightly to the stems of the 

 water plants amongst which it lives. 



A glance at the distributional maps in Mr. Stelfox's list of Irish land 

 and freshwater mollusca shows clearly the very local range of Planoi'his 

 coyyieiis in Ireland. In fact it has been recorded only from a few places 

 in Queen's County and Kildare inhabiting drains and shallow pools. 

 There is also a western locality, a small artificial pond in County Sligo, 

 but it was doubtless introduced there amongst water plants. 



J. N. Halpert. 

 National Museum, Dublin. 



Recent Records of Irish Birds. 



The follomng should have been included in the notes under the above 

 head published on p. 94, supra : — Mr. C. J. Carroll publishes an interesting 

 article on " Newly Discovered Irish Colonies of Roseate and Sandwich 

 Terns " {British Birds, Nov., 1917) ; J. Cunningham records a flock of 

 Crossbills at Fernhill, Belfast {ibid., Oct., 191 7) ; and in the same journal 

 for January, 191 8, are records of Hoopoe in Donegal and Snowy Owl in 

 Antrim (W. H. Workman), and Green Sandpiper in King's Co. — (Helen 

 M. Rait- Kerr) 



