172 The Irish Naturalist. [June, 1897. 



caught a specimen which I thought at first was G. sylvaticiis but which 

 seems to be only a small G. stercorarius, !,• Moths have been positively 

 rare. I got nothing at all at sallows, but a nice Xylocampa lithorrhiza was 

 obliging enough to settle on my bedroom window from whence it was 

 soon transferred to my setting board, and on the same day I captured a 

 Depressaria whose name I am not sure of. Since then (April 10) my net 

 has not been of any use. However, I shall later on have more use for it. 



W. F. Johnson. 



BIRDS. 



Spring Migrants at Poyntzpassi 



The exceeding lateness of the season has made the arrival of the migra- 

 tory birds very irregular, and though most have put in an appearance 

 they can hardly be said to be properly arrived even yet. The Chifif- 

 chaff arrived on April 6th, and the Willow- Wren on the loth. These two 

 are to be heard and seen frequently, but the Swallow, which I observed 

 first on April i8th, has only shown itself in small numbers. I do not 

 think I have seen more than three at a time as yet. The Cuckoo was 

 reported to me on April 22nd, but I did not hear it myself till the 26th ; 

 the Corncrake was heard some, six miles from this on the 23rd, but here 

 not till the 25th, but the cold of the past week seems to have driven 

 them back again. 



I saw a single Swift on May 4th, but none since. 



W. F. Johnson. 



MAMMALS. 



Irish Bats. 



The record of another county for the Lesser Horse-shoe Bat {R 

 hipposideros) will be found in the Zoologist for 1887 (page 92), namely, 

 Muckross, Co. Kerry. Mr. J. Ray Hardy, of the Manchester Museum, 

 found a large colony in the Abbey stables, and names also the parasite 

 found on them, Nycteribia biarticulata. 



English students of Mammalia await with interest a decision concern- 

 ing the occurrence of the Noctule in Ireland. 



J. B. KEI-SAI,!,. 



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