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and exhibits, in addition to the two filaments vvhich appear before 

 each eye, a third fleshy appendage placed nearei- to the eye, and un- 

 connected vvith the others. 



Notvvithstanding these discrepancies, the general accordance of 

 Mr. Harvey's fish \vith the figures of the ocellated Sucker given by 

 the authors above quoted, and its possessing the character whence 

 the trivial name has been derived, make me unwilling, vvithout further 

 investigation, to consider the species distinct. 



A notice of two specimens of Lepadogaster himaculatus, Flem,, 

 having occurred to me on the coast of Down, was, early in the pre- 

 sent session, communicated to the Linnean Society, it being at the 

 šame time remarked that the spots from vvhich the species had ob- 

 tained its scientific as well as trivial name vvere in both instances 

 wanting. Since that time T, on one occasion, took upwards of a 

 dozen specimens of this fish, by deep dredging in Belfast Bay : one 

 or two of these vvere also immaculate. 



Leptocephalus Morrisii, Penn. By the kindness of scientific 

 friends I am enabled to mention the occurrence of six specimens of 

 Lept. Morrisii on the coast of Ireland. Mr. Bali has thus vvritten 



me respecting it : ' The first I saw vvas at Cove, in 1809 I 



was at the capture of a second at Clonakilty, in 1811. I caught one 

 myself at Youghal, in 1819, and procured another vvhich vvas taken 

 there. The fifth, the specimen vvhich I have preserved, vvas taken 

 in a shrimp-net, at Youghal also, in 1829 ; the foiir others having 

 been found under stones, near lovv-vvater mark.' Dr. J. L. Drum- 

 iriond informs me that vvhen in Bangor, county Dovvn, in June, 1831, 

 a specimen oi Lept. Morrisii, aboiit 4 inches in length, was brought 

 to him : it had been just taken from a pool left in the sand by the 

 ebbing tide, and vvas almost perfectly transparent. 



Syngnathus Ophidion, Linn. Of this fish I have seen a fevv spe- 

 cimens, which vvere obtained by Mr. G. C. Hyndman at the entrance 

 of Strangford Lough, in March, 1832. 



Ammoccetes branchialis, Flem. I have specimens of this fish from 

 the county of Kildare. 



The oceanic shell lanthina exigua, Sow., vvhich vvas, I believe, 

 for the first time noticed in 1834, as occurring on the English coast 

 (Turton, in Mag. of Nat. Hist., vol. vii. p. 352), and never before 

 on that of Ireland, vvas obtained in considerable abundance in Sep- 

 tember, 1834, at Kilkee, on the coast of Clare, by Mrs. James Fisher, 

 ofLimerick."— W. T. 



Mr. Thompson also read the following notes respecting two Birds, 

 vvhich he regarded as interesting on account of the rarity of their 

 occurrence. 



Scolopax Sabini, Vig. The specimen exhibited of this very rara 

 bird is one of the four individuals noticed by Mr. Yarrell in a paper 

 on British Snii^es, which appeared in the • Magazine of Natūrai Hi- 



