1904. Notes. 49 



Seal caught on a Handline. 



On tlie night of November 11, a young Seal was caught near Valentia 



Harbour by one of the local fishermen on a handline with rubber bait. 



It was about three feet long, light grey underneath^ speckled with 



darker grey on the back. 



Maud J. Dki<ap. 



A Bat on the Wing in December. 



On the evening of December ytli, I saw a bat flitting about in Poyntz- 

 pass. The hour was 5 p.m., and the evening was not particularly warm. 

 The bat was very busy flitting up and down and across some trees, but 

 what it would be getting I do not know; possibly gnats or some of the 

 winter moths, e g., Cheimatobia. I should like to know whether it is usual 

 to see bats about so late in the year ? 



W. F. Johnson. 



Poyntzpass, Co. Armagh. 



[Though not " usual," it is well-known that bats occasionally come 

 out in the middle of winter. The Irish Naturalist contains records 

 of such occurrences on ist, i8th, and 25th December and 2nd January 

 in various years. — Bds.] 



GEOLOGY. 



Greensand Section at Whitehead. 



The B. & N.C. Railway Co. are now filling in the hollow between the 

 railway embankment and the Coastguard station gate. The material 

 used is debris from the old quarry tip, the removal of which has 

 exposed, on the south side of the old limekiln, a fine section of Greene 

 sand, about thirty feet long by eighteen feet or so in height. The bas- 

 of the section is, however, still covered. In addition to this, a long pro- 

 longation of the section, about two to three feet high, is exposed, under 

 a thin covering of debris, for well over one hundred feet. Geologists 

 should take advantage of this exposure, as the rock is very fossiliferous, 

 and as it is quite soft in most places, the Rhynchonellas, Urchins, and 

 Urchin spines are easily taken out. I got eight specimens of the former 

 (three species) in almost as many minutes wdth a pocket knife. The 

 section is being rapidly quarried away for the filling, but large blocks 

 are available where they have rolled to the base of the new siding. The 

 Glauconitic Sands were well exposed during the making of the tunnel 

 here many years ago, and Ralph Tate described them with their 

 contents. It is a pity the section was not available while Dr. Hume was 

 making his survey, in 1897, of the Antrim Cretaceous rocks. He gives 

 it only half a page. 



R. Wb;i,CH. 



Belfast. 



