igo^. Revietvs* ' 123 



AQUATIC BIRDS IN CAPTIVITY. 



Ornamental Water-fowl : A Practical Manual of the Acclimatiza- 

 tion of Swimming Birds. By Hon. ROSE Hubbard. Second edition. 

 Walsall and London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 

 1907. Pp. 24S + xvi. 

 This manual is written for amateurs, and appeals particularly to those 

 who possess a lake and grounds suitable for the introduction of foreign 

 waterfowl. We are already amply supplied with works on poultrj^, 

 pigeons and cage birds, and there are also man)- dealing with ornitho- 

 logy from a purely zoological point of view. Books of the latter kind are 

 mostly expensive, and contain more information than is required by 

 those who simply wish to obtain some knowledge as to the breeding and 

 management of the various kinds of ducks, geese and swans generally 

 kept on ornamental lakes. That a work of this nature really fulfils a 

 want is evidenced by the fact that it now appears in its second edition. 

 And we may say that the task of writing it has been thoroughly well 

 done by its authoress. Not only are the descriptions of the couple of 

 hundred species couched in plain language Avhich can be easily under- 

 stood by the non-scientific reader, there are chapters on the <;lisea.sesand 

 accidents liable to occur among birds, and on pinioning waterfowl while 

 a glossary of terms and a good index concludes this useful little book. 



R. F. S. 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



Irish Plants. 



To the /ournal of Bo/any for May, Rev. C. H. Waddell contributes notes 

 on Rubi, among which are a few collected in Limerick and Down ; he 

 also contributes a note on Orthotrichjint dia^//ai:7n?i,Schra(\.y\i{r. aqjiaticufn 

 Davie.s which he has found at Magheralin, Co. Down. 



Peziza Adse in Co. Antrim. 



On March 12 several speciniens of this pretty fungus were observed 

 growing at Ballyclare, within a few feet of the place where it was found 

 more than two years ago (vide Irish Naturalist, vol. xiv., pp. 185-7). The 

 conditions of growth seem to indicate, as on the previous occasion, that 

 the presence of lime, organic matter, and excess of moisture are exceed- 

 ingly favourable to the development of this fungus. A rather interest- 

 ing point is the abnormally large size of most of the Irish specimens of 

 P. Ada. The normal maximum of British specimens is 25 cm., but 

 several of the Co, Antrim specimens found in 1905 were over 6 cm. in 

 diameter, while the largest of those found lately measured 7-5 cm. 



James Strachan, 

 Ballyclare, Co. Antrim, 



