220 The Irish Naturalisf- September, 



ZOOLOGY. 



Vespa austriaca. 



Males of Vespa austriaca have been about in considerable numbers. I 

 took a dozen in a short space of time, and could have taken as many 

 more. If any reader of the Irish Naturalist would care for specimens of 

 this rare male I shall be happy to send them, so far as my supply goes, 

 on receipt of a suitable box for packing. 



Denis R. Pack-Beresford. 

 Fenagh House, Bagenalstown. 



Lacerta vivipara. 



Some years since I was asked whether I had ever seen green specimens 

 of the Common Lizard in Ireland. I mentioned that I had taken one of 

 brilliant green in Killarney, which is now in the Museum, though of 

 course its colour may have faded in alcohol. I now write to record 

 another seen at Fort Carlisle, one of the two fortified headlands that 

 dominate Queenstown Harbour, Co. Cork. 



W. F. de; V. Kane. 



Monaghan. 



Sea Eagle and Golden Eagle in Donegal. 



While passing through Dunfanaghy in N.K- Donegal, on 5th August, 

 I made inquiry whether Bagles were still to be found about Horn Head, 

 and found a young man (Strain), a practised cliff climber (his father 

 climbed the cliffs for eggs for many years), and had a good talk with 

 him. He seemed to have a thorough knowledge of the local birds. He 

 told me that a pair of vSea PJagles had frequented the Horn for a month 

 or two last winter, and that during the past ten years or so he had seen 

 the Eagles occasionally — it might be every third or fourth year — and 

 always in the late autumn or winter. He also told me that he had 

 seen a Golden Bagle at Glen Veagh last spring, which he believed was 

 nesting. 



He reported that a pair of Ravens had built and brought out their 

 brood on Horn Head this year. 



D. C. Campbei,!,. 



Londonderry. 



Wild Swans in Donegal and Antrim. 



On July 25th my land steward at Kilderry, Co. Donegal, saw twelve 

 wild vSwans flying overhead in a N.E. to SW. direction. On 28th, being 

 at Portrush, Co. Antrim, a party of five of us saw nine swans coming in 

 also from N.E. to S.W. They were flying at no great elevation, and 

 passed within about two gunshots, or rather less, of the rocks at the Blue 



