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numbers, having nests scattered about the lands for fully half 

 a mile along the range — many of them fully 150 yards from 

 the water. They far outnumbered the Common Terns, which 

 appeared to confine their breeding quarters to the gravelly 

 Inch, and as far as I saw were the only terns that made any 

 attempt to make a nest — the Arctic laying their eggs on 

 the bare sand and gravel. 



The lycsser Tern has increased more in proportion to its 

 former numbers than the Arctic, ten or twelve pairs every year 

 breeding on the Inch, sometimes less ; but in June, 1895, when 

 visiting the Inch and the Ross sands, I was surprised at their 

 numbers ; fully sixty or seventy pairs had spread all over the 

 Inch and adjoining Ross sands, and even had crossed the 

 channel to the end of Bartragh, where four pairs had eggs 

 just above high-water mark on the loose sands. Again, on the 

 13th of June, 1899, I visited the breeding haunt, and found 

 both Lesser and Arctic Terns as numerous as in 1895, and 

 after very close observation again came to the conclusion that 

 the few Common Terns still kept to the Inch, leaving the wide 

 expanse of Ross sands to the Arctic and Lesser Terns. 

 Although the Terns were in such large numbers, the nests 

 were not numerous in any one place, but were thinly scattered 

 about the wide expanse of sand. 



Moyview^ Ballina. 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



The International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. 



The first fruits of this great undertaking have appeared in the shape 

 of two volumes (Section D, Chemistry, and Section M, Botany), in which 

 are catalogued all the books, papers, and notes dealing with these 

 sciences published during the year 1901. The entries are alphabetized 

 under authors, and subsequently under subjects. Opening the Botany 

 volume at random, we find under Ireland that of a list of 37 communi- 

 cations dealing with the flora of this country, 28 were published in this 

 Journal. From the balance, however, two items must be deducted, as 

 by a strange oversight two notes dealing with the flora of Louth in 

 Lincolnshire have been included in the Irish section. The annual issue 

 of these volumes will greatly facilitate scientific reference, and will 

 render it much more easy for the naturalist to keep pace with the ever, 

 increasing bibliography of his subject. 



