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which, since the first finding by Prof. Oliver, has remained for twenty- 

 seven years the only known locality in Ireland. In Lough Creg-duff 

 the Naias grows intermixed with Chara aspera and other subaqueous 

 plants, close to the margin of the lake, in water only two or three feet 

 deep ; but in Lough Caragh, in the place where I dredged up the plant, 

 the water was not less than fifteen to twenty feet in depth, at the south- 

 east corner of the lake, close to the steep wooded bank, and not far 

 from the reed-beds which surround the mouth of the river Caragh. In 

 Lough Caragh grow Eriocaulon septangulare, Isoetes lacustris, Lobelia 

 dortmanna, &c., and in the immediate neighbourhood Pinguicula 

 grandiflora, Bartsia viscosa, Trichomanes radicans, and Euphorbia 

 hyberna. The rare Slug, Geomalacus maculosus, occurs nearly all 

 round the Lake, and the Natterjack Toad (Bufo calamita), so local in 

 Ireland, abounds in many places along the shores of Dingle Bay. Our 

 drag was made of thorn-bushes (Prunus spinosa), bound together and 

 kept in place by two cross-pieces of wood, and weighted with some, ten 

 pounds of iron, an implement invented for the occasion by our ingenious 

 fisherman, and which I venture strongly to recommend to botanists who 

 wish to explore the vegetation at the bottom of any lake. 



WHITE-NOSED DOLPHIN ON THE IRISH COAST. 



[ZOOLOGIST, August, 1878.] 



We have long had, in the Museum here, a coloured cast of a dolphin, 

 captured some 15 years ago in the vicinity of Dublin Bay, which, lately, 

 by comparing a coloured sketch taken from the fresh animal, with the 

 excellent figure given in the " Proceedings of the Zoological Society" 

 (1876, p,679, pi. Ixiv.), I was able to identify as Delphinus albirostris 

 (J. E. Gray). So little is known critically of the Irish species of 

 Delphinus that it seems very probable some of the dolphins hitherto 

 passing under the name of D. tursio really belong to D. albirostris, of 

 which the figures given in the Annals of Natural History, and Bell's 

 " British Quadrupeds," are very far from satisfactory. 



MONTAGU'S BLENNY (BLENNIUS GALERITA, LINN.), IN 

 IRELAND. 



[ZOOLOGIST, August, 1878.] 



As this little fish is, I believe, not generally known to be found on 

 the shores of Ireland, I may mention that I have captured it in two 

 localities, viz., first (when in company with my friend, Mr. William 

 Andrews) in rock-pools at the entrance of Dingle Harbour, Kerry, in 

 August, 1868 ; and soon afterwards in 1869 I met with it again on the 



