154 -^ 1^^ Irish Naturalist. September, 



The Fulmar is so abundant, its breeding stations are now 

 so numerous, and its eggs quoted at such low price in 

 dealers' catalogues, that I have no fear of its extermination. 

 Its occurrence in Ireland is but part of the great over- 

 flow from St. Kilda and stations further north, which has 

 been in progress since Faroe was first colonised, seventy-two 

 years ago, and which has not yet been arrested. 



Its extension has no more to do with whaling stations 

 than (to use the old illustration) "Tenterden steeple has to 

 do with the Goodwin Sands," for no Fulmars are to be seen 

 near the Irish whaling stations, and every particle of 

 blubber, bone and blood, is now used up at the factories 

 for oil or manure. 



The flesh of the Fulmar I ate at St. Kilda resembled 

 boiled chicken ; it is delicate in flavour, and has scarcely 

 any fishy taste. 



In Colgan's paper on Irish Plant and Animal names on 

 Clare Island, Proc. R.I. A,, 1911, p. 21, "White Caurogue" 

 is applied to the Hooded Crow — which in N. Mayo is called 

 Finnogue. I mention this as "White Cawnogue" and 

 " White Caurogue" sound so much alike. 



Fassaroe, Bray. 



ON TWO EXOTIC SPECIES OF WOODLICE FOUND 



IN IRELAND. 



BY NEVIN II. FOSTER, M.B.O.U. 



As announced in this Journal, p. 95 supra, in the course of 

 collecting in the greenhouses of the Botanic Gardens Park, 

 Belfast, in company with Messrs. A. W. Stelfox and R. J. 

 Welch, we took some small white woodlice which have 

 proved to be new to the Irish fauna. Doubtless these 

 animals were introduced with imported plants, but as they 

 may be found elsewhere in this country under similar 

 conditions, and as nothing respecting them has hitherto been 

 published in English, it has been considered advisable that 

 their characteristics should be now recorded. The specimens 

 taken were submitted to Mr. D. R. Pack Bcresford and were 



