1904- ^55 



NOTES. 



ZOOLOGY. 



AUolobophora cyanea in Ireland. 



Among some earthworms I received on February i6th from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Finea, Co. Cavan, I found one which I was not familiar 

 with. On examining it more closely I found it agreed with Mr. F. 

 Beddard's description oi AUolobophora cyanea Savigny in colour, positions of 

 the clitellum and the tubercula pubertatis, and also in the arrangement 

 of the setae. It is, however, much shorter than the type, there being 

 only 90 instead of 156 segments. Mr. Beddard has very kindly examined 

 the specimen, and has been able to confirm my diagnosis It has been 

 recorded from Kurope and the Argentine, but has not yet been found in 

 England. 



J. TRUMBUI^Iy. 



Mai abide. 



White Wagtails. 



Irish ornithologists will be glad to learn that Motacilla alba has visited 

 Bartragh on its way north this season. My friend, Captain Kirkwood, 

 observed a little flock of six birds on the loth May ; these onl)' remained 

 to rest for an hour and then resumed their northern flight. On the 13th 

 he observed a solitary bird, which he kindly shot for me as I required 

 the specimen for the Belfast Museum. 



These birds were seen, as usual, to haunt the damp sandy flat of 

 pasture outside the garden at Bartragh, and were evidently delayed on 

 their northern journey by the high north-west wind blowing on the 

 days previous to their arrival. They have now been observed on 

 Bartragh Island for seven years in succession, regularly appearing in 

 April or May and almost always after, or during a gale of north, north- 

 west, or north-east wind. So I think there can be no doubt now of 

 their line of spring migration passing over Bartragh directly north. 



Robert Warren. 

 Moyview, Balliua. 



Turtle Dove in Co. Down. 



On 24th May, a bird was shot in this neighbourhood and submitted to 

 me for identification. It proved to be a female of one of our rarer 

 summer visitants — the Turtle Dove (yw/z/r co??imu?ns). It had eggs in 

 the ovary and showed no traces of having been in captivity. There are 

 only two recorded instances of this bird having bred in Ireland (both 

 more than half a century ago), though it is common in England. 



Nevin H. Foster. 

 Hillsborough, 



