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preserved in the collection of Mr. R. B. Chute, of Chute Hall, to whom 

 I feel much indebted for his kindness in allowing this valuable specimen 

 to be brought to Dublin. This is the bird which was first described as 

 British by Mr. Arthur Strickland, in 1832, under the name of Puffinus 

 fulginosus, from a specimen shot at the moujh of the Tees ; and which 

 has been treated as the young or female of the Great Shearwater 

 (P. major, Faber) by many of our best authorities. But, in his " Birds 

 of Europe," Mr. Dresser identifies it with P. griseus of Gmelin, and 

 considers it a species distinct from P. major. Though both birds are 

 rare on the British coast, P. griseus appears to be much the scarcer of 

 the two, and has not yet been recorded as Irish. 



ICELAND FALCON IN IRELAND. 

 [ZOOLOGIST, December, 1881.] 



Of the two Gyrfalcons, the Greenlander (F. candicans, J. F. Gmel.) 

 has several times been captured in Ireland, and we have in this Museum 

 the very specimen which was killed many years ago at Belmullet, co. 

 Mayo, as already noticed by my friend, Mr. Warren, in "The Zoolo- 

 gist" for 1877, p. 234. But the scarce Icelander (F. islandus, J. F. 

 Gmel.) is only very dubiously included by Thompson, and is altogether 

 omitted as an Irish bird by Waiters, and in Prof. Newton's edition of 

 Yarrell. I have therefore much pleasure in placing upon record, as 

 Irish, an indubitable specimen of the Iceland Falcon, which belongs to 

 Mr. Henry J. Richards, of Barnagh, Belmullet, and was shot, as 

 Mr. Richards informs me, by his brother-in-law, in September, 1879, a ^ 

 Tarmoncarra, 3 miles from the town of Belmullet. The bird was sent 

 to Dublin at the time, and set up by Mr. Williams, to whom I feel much 

 indebted for the information, and I am still more obliged to Mr. Richards, 

 who was kind enough to send his bird for examination, and to allow it 

 to remain as a loan in this Museum. It is remarkable that both species 

 of Falcon should have occurred in the same neighbourhood, and I may 

 add that my friend, Captain Boxer, of the Irish Lights Office, tells me 

 that of late years he has heard of more than one large white Falcon 

 occurring on the north-west coast of Mayo. 



SISYRINCHIUM BERMUDIANUM IN KERRY. 

 [JOURNAL OF BOTANY, January, 1882.] 



When visiting my friend, Dr. Battersby, last April, I took the oppor- 

 tunity of calling upon the Rev. A. Isaac, of Milltown, who was reported 

 to have found Sisyrinchium bermudianum in that neighbourhood. At 

 the Rectory we were fortunate in meeting Lady Godfrey, who was kind 

 enough to conduct us to a locality within a short distance of Milltown, 



