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which I could have easily distinguished had I seen them ; 

 but it has been remarked by Mr. Howard Saunders that the 

 two species are not found commonly in the same resorts. 

 I have thus identified the Garden Warbler in five counties 

 from Tipperary to Sligo, having met with it in large demesnes, 

 or on islands where some remnants of the natural growth 

 have b^n preserved I have not found it in woods of Fir and 

 Ivarch except where these were mixed with the indigenous 

 wood. Its range is known to extend to Fermanagh, and it 

 was formerly observed in Cork, and there is some reason to 

 think it has been met with in Mayo. It should be looked for 

 in all parts of Ireland where suitable haunts occur. Its song, 

 however, uttered in May and June, is the chief means of recog- 

 nizing it, and this is so little noticed that no one I met with, 

 except Mr. Parker, had appeared to distinguish it or to know 

 the bird. The warblers, from their skulking habits, and the 

 brief period of the year that they sing, are among the least 

 known of our land birds. The Wood Warbler should also be 

 carefully looked for. Mr. R. B. Dillon has shown me a skin 

 and ^<g<g of this species taken at Clonbrook in the Co. Galway, 

 where he has heard the bird again this season, though I was 

 not so fortunate. 



THE EARTHWORMS OF IREEAND. 



BY REV. HII,DE)RIC FRIKND, F.L.S. 



( Continued from page 122,) 



I HAVK named the remaining group of Allolobophora, Virgata, 

 because of the bands of colour which characterise the princi- 

 pal types (see page 42). Since that paper was written 

 Dr. Rosa, of Turin, one of the best authorities on earthworms, 

 has published a volume of great value and interest entitled 

 Revisione dei Licmbricidi, in which he treats the whole subject 

 from a wider standpoint, thus presenting the matter in a much 

 truer light than it is possible to place it in when dealing 

 only with a limited section. I must, however, adhere to my 

 arrangement, and now deal with the species included under 



Group IVi Virgata. 



In the Irish worm-fauna there are at present only two species under 

 this division. One of these is very widely distributed not only in Great 



