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across. If dried it is extremely light and easily packed, and half a pound 

 would be an ample amount. The sample should be carefully selected 

 and free from possible admixture from higher or lower levels, and an 

 exact description of its mode of occurrence should accompany it. 1 

 would report in this Journal as to its contents. 



A. W. Stelfox. 



Ballymagee, Bangor, Co. Down. 



ZOOLOGY. 

 Notodonta bicoloria in Co. Kerry. 



Mr. L. H. Bonaparte Wyse, at the conclusion of his interesting notes 

 on this insect {Irish Nat., vol. xxvi., no. 10), mentions a specimen taken 

 by a friend of mine in the South of Ireland. As a matter of fact the friend 

 in question, Rev. G. Foster, when on a holiday in the Kenmare district in 

 June, 1913, was lucky to capture two examples of this rare moth ; both of 

 these were beaten out of a small alder wood, in the day-time ; no birch 

 in the locality. Very little is known about the habits or life history of 

 this moth in this country, and perhaps the larva feeds upon both alder 

 and birch. 



Thomas Greer, 



Stewartstown. 



Lepidoptera of Lam bay. 



Will you grant me the space necessary to put on record the following 

 two additions, observed this year, to the Lepidoptera of Lambay : — 

 Sphinx convolvitli, and Gonepteryx rhamni. Vanessa atalana, V. io, 

 and V. cardui were remarkably abundant this year. 



Cecil Baring. 

 Bi.shopsgate, London, E.C. 



Pig-eons in Belfast. 



The heavy carting of grain through Belfast from the docks to the mills 

 several miles away has led to an enormous increase in the number of 

 pigeons in the city. There are more now, I venture to say, in our streets 

 than used to be in St. Mark's Square, Venice, and they are quite as tame. 

 They freely alight on the pavement at the very feet of passers by, dodging 

 vehicles of all sorts and all speeds without apparent injury. Every public 

 building affording an\' nesting accommodation is taken full advantage of, 

 church towers, spires, ledges, cornices and tympanums being tavouritc 

 resorts almost to the extent of nuisance. The people, even the boys, are 

 now so accustomed to them and so pleased to see their graceful flights 

 that molestation is quite unusual. 



F. J. Bigger. 



Ardrigh, Belfast. 



