320 The Irish Naturalist. [Dec, 1896. 



that "the Crow is a rare bird in Ireland," had not led me to think that 

 a record of the fact might interest Irish ornithologists. During the day 

 we more than once heard the (to us) familiar cry of the Crow, and saw 

 the birds themselves, either flying singly or associated with parties of 

 Rooks and Jackdaws ; and en a subsequent day we saw and recognised the 

 cry of three individuals flying over the bog on the road between Bally- 

 castle and Ballintoy. We have both been familiar with the Crow in 

 England since boyhood, and Mr. Hardy has observed it frequently in 

 various parts of Co. Kerry, and has now in his collection skins and eggs 

 taken by himself in the woods in Gap of Dunloe— so there is no pos- 

 sibility of mistake. 



R. Standen, Manchester Museum. 



Fork-tailed Petrel (Occanodroma leucorrhoa) near Lon- 

 donderry.— About 2oth October Mr. Buckle, of Culmore, near 

 Londonderry, shot a specimen of this species on the shores of Ivough 

 Foyle. 



D. C. CAMPBEiyiv, Londonderry. 



Bird Notes from Co. Cork. — A good specimen of the Squacco 

 Heron {Ardea ralloides) was shot near Ballinacourty, County Waterford, on 

 the 12th September, 1895 (no doubt the one referred to by Mr. E. 

 Williams as having been shot in County Cork, see Vol. v.. No. 2, Irish 

 Naturalist), and a Ruflf {Machetes fugnax) near Blarney, on the 20th 

 February, i8g6. The reports which I have received of Quail, Coticrnix 

 communis, from Co. Cork this year, show that the distribution has been 

 pretty general over the county ; in the locality of Midleton they appear 

 to have been more numerous than elsewhere. 



W. Bennett Barrington, Cork. 



GEOLOGY. 

 Cave at Westport. — Referring to the note in the Irish Naturalist for 

 October (page 276) as to the cave near Westport ** called Aglemore," I 

 believe that the place specified is evidently Ailemore, and the cave is 

 nothing more than the underground passage of a mountain-stream. As 

 far as I can understand, it has never been explored, and I doubt very 

 much if a man could push his way through. I have thought of trying 

 it, but the idea quite escaped my memory when the season was most 

 favourable. All the same, the place is well worth a visit ; and, though 

 tourists will be disappointed of a three and a half miles walk underground, 

 and though the Aile caves do not surpass those of Mitchelstown, a very 

 pleasant day can be spent in the vicinity. The entrance to the under- 

 ground passage is at the base of a limestone cliff of about thirty feet high, 

 and concave in shape, formed of stratified limestone, which falls occa- 

 sionally from the roof in huge square blocks. 



Joseph M. M 'Bride, Westport. 



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