24 The Irish Naturalist. February, 1924, 



ROYAL ZOOLOQICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND. 



Recent gifts include a Rhesus Monkey presented by Mr. Henry, a 

 Fox given by Commandant Colgan, two Badgers from Mr. M. Donohue, 

 fourteen Rabbits from Master E. Munns, a number af Sparrow -Hawks 

 from Mrs. Phillips, Miss E. Hamilton, and Mr. McGuckin, a Kestrel from 

 Mr. R, Reeves Smyth, two Peregrine Falcons from Mr. Edmond O' Sullivan, 

 four Sheldrakes from Mr. J. Blood-Smyth, a pair of Love-birds from 

 Master E. Bailey, a small Crocodile from Mrs, Strickland, and a Lizard 

 from Mr. Patrick Boylan. 



The acquisitions by purchase include a Chimpanzee, a Hamadryas 

 Baboon, a Crab-eating Macaque, a Sooty Mangabey, a Mona Monkey, 

 two pairs of Marmosets, a pair of Capybaras, two Pacas, two Zorillas, 

 and an Otter. 



A Suricate and a Grey Parrot have been received on deposit. A 

 number of young Alligators and Tortoises from the New York Zoological 

 Gardens have also been added to the collection. 



CORK CAMERA AND FIELD CLUB. 



This Club was inaugurated last summer with headquarters at University 

 College, and is open to all members of the College and others interested 

 in photography and for natural history approved by the committee, 

 which is composed of collegiate and non-collegiate members. 



The Cork Naturalists' Field Club has brought itself to an end and 

 made over its effects to the Camera and Field Club, to which the members 

 on the last roll have been admitted for the current session. 



A number of successful excursions were made during last summer 

 and a programme of evening lectures and demonstrations for the winter 

 is being carried out with enthusiasm. 



Field members are particularly wanted. The honorary secretary is 

 T. A. Conroy, Esq., the honorary recorder. Prof. L. P. W. Renouf, and 

 the president Professor A. F. Dixon. The honorary recorder is compiling 

 a fauna and flora list and will welcome any records — even of the commonest 

 species- — of plants or animals in Munster. 



NOTE. 



A Ringed Woodcock. 



I have just received information of a Woodcock [Scolopax rusticula 

 Linn.) having been recently shot by the Marquis of Hamilton at Barons- 

 court, Co. Tyrone, bearing a metal ring on one leg. The ring has a 

 number upon it (not given) and the word " Helgoland." According to 

 the Migration Reports, Northern Ireland claims the bulk of immigrant 

 Woodcocks into our country, but I am unaware of any previous evidence 

 as to their home land. I should be glad to hear of any, if extant. 

 As a breeding species this bird is undoubtedly increasing in the north. 

 Belfast Museum. J. A. Sidney Stendall. 



