1^2 iThe hish Naiuj-alist. [July, 1896. 



Stock- Dove in Co. Calway. — During the week ending April i8th, 

 my steward, who is well acquainted with all local birds, told me several 

 times that he had heard or seen what appeared to he a Wood Pigeon, 

 which uttered an (to him) entirely strange note. It frequented a chain 

 of fir plantations near the house, and in one of these I heard it myself on 

 Monday, April 20th, and at once recognized the note as being that of a 

 Stock-Dove {Columba cenas). One morning early that week my steward 

 had a good view of it as it sat " cooing " on an oak tree, and when it flew 

 he could see no white bar on the wing. We heard it frequently until 

 May ist, on which day I first caught sight of it as it flew out of a tree in 

 a wood. The bird was evidently alone. I see in Seebohm that it is 

 "unknown in Ireland except in the N.E., where, however, it is very 

 rare." 



R. F. HiBBERT, Scariff, Co. Clare. 



[The Stock-Dove has extended its range in Ireland during the last few 

 years. It has been noticed in Co, Wicklow {Irish Naturalist^ vol. ii., p. 202), 

 and in Co. Carlow (vol. iv., p. 296). Its occurrence in the far west now 

 noted is of great interest. — Eds.] 



Quail in Co. Cork. — I heard the Ouail near Bandon this evening 

 (31st Ma}'). There were two of them crying to each other from opposite 

 sides of a country road, and I have no doubt that they are nesting there. 

 It is said that Quail were once common in the south of Ireland, but I 

 never heard one here before. The unusually warm dry weather probably 

 accounts for their settling. 



Ai^i^AN P. Swan, Bandon. 



Iceland Cull on the Sligro Coast. — I picked up dead on the strand 

 at Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo, on the 5th June, an adult Iceland Gull {Lams 

 Icucoptenis^ Fab.). It had evidentl}' been shot at, as both legs were broken, 

 and there were wounds in its neck and stomach. It was identified by 

 Messrs. Williams of Dublin. 



Chari,e;s IvAngham, Tempo Manor, Co. Fermanagh. 



GEOLOGY. 



Submerged Peat-bogs in Co. Donegal, — Among submerged 

 peat-bogs it may be worth while to note those of Inver Bay, County 

 Donegal. The most conspicuous is on its N.W. shore, a little beyond 

 the old house and wood of Kilmacreddan (?) It is visible enough at 

 low water of springs, and I have found in it fragments of riniis 

 sylvcstris and entire Hazel-nuts. 



It may here be noted that a considerable depression of the opposite 

 coast of North America seems to have been, geologicall}^ speaking, not 

 far from contemporary. Farther away in Bombay Harbour, a forest of 

 trees, of an existing species {Acacia catechu) of the Peninsula, was found 

 some years ago, in digging the Prince's Dock, man}- feet below low water 

 level. The stumps stood upright on their roots, just as they do in 

 many Irish bogs -, and the wood was good enough to make beautiful 

 walking sticks. 



W. F. SiNCi^AiR, London 



