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colour or country of origin. It was formerly called " Red 

 Spaniel," hence spdinear ruadh might meet the difficulty. 



Richardson expressed the belief that Setters originated 

 from land spaniels in the year 1335, and were produced by 

 the Duke of Northumberland, and that the Irish Setter 

 was the unmixed descendant of the original land spaniel. 



Knockranny, Bray. 



NOTES, 



The Wolf in Ireland. 



\\\ my article on the Wolf in Ireland [Irish Naturalist, vol. xxxi., 1922.) 

 I mentioned that the last Wolf was probably killed in the western 

 mountains in 1770. Prof. A. Henry kindly drew my attention to another 

 reference concerning this animal in Rev. G. N. Nuttall-Smith's recent 

 book on " The Chronicles of a Puritan Family in Ireland." The author 

 affirms that at th^ close of the Civil War about the year 1660, Wolves 

 were still hunted in the neighbourhood of Dublin, As regards the last 

 Wolf, he states that it was killed in the Knockmealdown Mountains, which 

 separate the counties of Tipperary and Waterford, about the year 1770. 

 It is curious that the dates of the supposed extinction of the Wicklow and 

 Tipperary W^olf should coincide. There is a second interesting reference 

 to the Wolf on page 69 in the same book, as follows : " Captain E. M. 

 Connolly, of Castletowr, told my brother not long ago that he came 

 across a letter of about the same date from Lord Clifden, of Gowran, 

 asking his ancestor to send across his hounds from Castletown, near 

 Celbridge, Co. Kildare, to hunt the Wolves in the Slieve Bloom Moun- 

 tains." These mountains divide Queen's County from King's County, 

 and one of the highest summits is still known as the Wolftrap. I wrote 

 to Rev. Nuttall-Smith for further particulars, but he had none. 



R. F. SCHARFF. 



Mutton Island Tern Colony. 



On June 28 this year I made a visit to Mutton Island, Galway, with 

 the special object of ascertaining if the colony of Sandwich Terns, found 

 there in 191 7 by Mr. Glanville, still existed. My observations were, 

 however, disappointing. On nearing the island I observed, along with 

 many other terns, two Sandwich Terns, which came quite close to the 

 boat. These were the only ones I noticed, although I was on the island 

 for nearly an hour, and I did not see them a second time. There is now 

 a large colony of Arctic Terns. I estimated from 150 to 200 pairs, and in 

 places it was liard to walk without treading on eggs or young. I saw no 

 Common Terns, and the young examined were all of the Arctic species. 

 Mr. Glanville feared that the commoner Terns, then rapidly increasing, 



