1907. M'Ardle. — Mjisci and Hep atica from Co. Mayo. 337 



Nardia compressa, Hook., Gr. et Benn.— On wet rocks, L,oughna- 



fooey. 

 Var. rfglda, Liiidberg. — On wet rocks, Loughnafooey. 

 N. scalar is, Schrad. — On banks, Loughnafooe}'. 

 JYIarsupella sphacclata, Gieseke — Wet rocks, Loughnafooey. 

 Fossombronia pusilla, Dill., Linn. — Bank of the Finny River. 

 Pellia eplphylla, Linn. — Waterfall at Curranarnona. 

 lYIetzgeria furcata, Linn, Raddi. — On the trunks of trees, Cong; 



Illauuaknick ; Carrick Hill; shore of Lough Corrib near Ballard; 



waterfall at Curranarnona. 

 Var. prolifera. — On trees, Illaunaknick ; Carrick Hill. 

 M. conjugrata, Lindberg. — On trees in wood near Cong; waterfall at 



Curranarnona. 

 Conocephalus conicus, Neck., Dumort. — Pigeon Hole and in woods 



near Cong. 

 Reboulia hemisphaerica, Raddi. — Crevices of rocks in wood near 



Cong. 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. 



ATTEMPTED NESTING OF THE RED-THROATED 



DIVER IN IRELAND. 



BY W. C WRIGHT, M.B.O.TT. 



It is well known that at least one pair of these fine birds 

 frequent a certain part of the North of Ireland during the 

 breeding season, and it is probably equally as well known, at 

 least to egg collectors, that the annual efforts to nest and hatch 

 out young are frustrated by the greed these so-called collectors 

 have to possess a British-taken clutch of Diver's eggs. This 

 craze to have the eggs of rare British-breeding birds seems a 

 strange and quite useless desire on the part of collectors, as in 

 the case of these Divers they willingly pay the person who 

 takes the eggs anything up to £2 a set, not being satisfied 

 with a foreign clutch, worth as many shillings, for their 



cabinets. 



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