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or mountain form called y. nana. I remember seeing the Crowberry 

 also in Achill. It looks yellower, with no sharp points to the leaves. 

 You should find it anywhere about Slieve-More, but I think not in any 

 great quantity, just scattered here and there, flat on the ground, or not 

 rising much above it. 



(April 22nd, 1892 : to the same.) I ought to have written sooner to 

 thank you for the beautiful plants of Mediterranean heath which you 

 so kindly sent. The white-coloured variety occurs in all the heaths, 

 and is rather rare in the Mediterranean. So I think you might as well 

 send a notice of it for " Irish Sportsman." Please send it at once, or 

 it may be forgotten. And you might say that the heath is now in its 

 fullest and best flower. I read your article on the Rock Dove* with 

 much interest, and I wish you would write a few more such for the 

 " Irish Sportsman." . . . You will find an account of your Moth 

 (Nyssia zonariaf) in the May number of the "Irish Naturalist," which 

 I think you subscribe for. And I should strongly advise you to send a 

 short paragraph to the " Irish Naturalist," on the " Surf Scoter off 

 Achill Island," and just give a short account of the circumstances and 

 the date when you shot it. Yours is, as far as I know, the fourth Irish 

 specimen, and it is a very rare bird. You are quite welcome to say that 

 I have seen and identified your bird, as a female, was it not ? Tell me 

 have you any uncommon Fishes in Achill Island ? You should keep a 

 list of what you find. 



(June ^th, 1892 : to the same. ) I now return your Wagtail. It is 

 a female of M. raii, i. e. the common English Yellow Wagtail, very 

 rare in Ireland. Please send a notice at once to the " Irish Sportsman," 

 and also to the " Irish Naturalist," to this effect. " Yellow Wagtail, 

 Motacilla raii, in Achill Island." Just giving the date and the circum- 

 stances. 



In the June number of the " Irish Naturalist" he reviewed 

 a little book on "Harrow Birds," by Mr. Barrett-Hamilton, 

 contributing at the same time to the " Irish Sportsman " 

 (June 4th) a notice of a conchological paper lately written 

 by Dr. Scharff. And to the " Journal of Botany" for July 

 he sent a short but carefully written article on the lost Irish 

 plant, Rubus chamaemorus, summarizing the evidence 

 regarding its Irish station in the "mountains west of Dart," 

 where it had not been gathered or seen for sixty-six years, 



* In the " Irish Sportsman" for April i6th, 1892. 



t An insect sent him by Mr. Sheridan, who had picked it up on the Achill 

 sandhills, turned out to be the wingless female of this very local moth, previously 

 quite unknown from the west of Ireland. 



