136 The Irish Naturalist. July, 1911. 



ZOOLOaY. 



A rare Fly in Co. Fermanagh. 



On April jgth, when waiting for a train at Enniskillcn Station, I picked 

 up from the platform, alive but in an apparently comatose condition, a 

 fly which was identified at the British Museum as a specimen of 

 Hyetodesia variegata, Mg. 



Herbert Trevelyan. 

 Naval and Military Club, London. 



MoUusca of Co. Limerick. 



To the Journal of Conchology for October, Harry Fogerty contributes 

 a note on the species found in shell -drift near Limerick. 



Mollusca from the Glacial Lake near Moira. 



Mr. Stelfox informs me that the shells found iu the lake marl at 



Megaberry, Co. Antrim (not Down, see p. 96, supra), arc Planorbis 



glaber, Limnaca peregra and Pisidium ptisillum — the latter species on the 



authority of B. B. Woodward, F.L.S. 



Isaac Swain. 

 University College, Cork. 



An Addition to the Mollusca of County Limerick. 



On March 14th, I obtained a single specimen of Ena obscura at Clarina, 

 Co. Limerick, which is an addition to the known list of Mollusca for the 

 county. 



Harry Fogerty, 



Irish Bird Notes. 



We glean the following notices of Irish Birds from recent issues of 

 zoological contemporaries : — A pair of Herons breeding twice in 1896 near 

 Ballina (R. Warren in Zoologist for September.); an American Blue- 

 winged Teal shot in Co. Cork, in September (R. Warren in Zoologist for 

 November, and H. F. Witherl)y in British Birds for January) ; particulars 

 of spring arrivals of White Wagtails and Sandwich Terns in Killala Bay 

 (R. Warren in Zoologist for May) ; Brambling remaining in Co. Down until 

 June 13 (J. Beddall Smith in British Birds for August). 



Sparrow Hawk laying twice in same Nest. 



On the 30th May last I found a Sparrow Hawk hatching her eggs in 

 the same nest in which a Sparrow Hawk (probably the same bird) had 

 reared her young in 1909. Some new material, fir twigs, appeared to 

 have been added to the upper part of the nest, but otherwise there was 

 no change. In all my previous experience I have always found that a 

 Sparrow Hawk made a new nest every year. 



George C. May, 

 Dubhu. 



