OCCASIONAL NOTES. 3801 
Remains oF THE IrtsH ELx in THE Co. WarerForD.—The bone- 
cave at Shandon, near Dungarvan, in the county of Waterford, accidentally 
discovered some twenty years ago, was the first Irish cave which produced 
animal remains belonging to the Pleistocene period. In it were found 
remains of the Mammoth, Horse, Bear, Wolf, and Reindeer. Professor 
Leith Adams, in his report on the exploration of this cave (1876), surmised 
that it was an enormous shelter-shed where the wild denizens repaired to 
end their days, or for the purpose of dragging in their prey; and he 
suggested that it required only funds and some enterprise to discover other 
caverns in the neighbourhood of this one containing abundance of Pleistocene 
animal remains. One such has recently been discovered near Cappoquin, 
at a distance of about seven miles from the Shandon cave, by Mr. Ussher, 
of Cappagh. This new cavern is of large size, and appears to have been 
occupied at a very remote period by bears, portions of whose skeletons are 
to be met with in the lower deposits of the floor; but the chief interest in 
this discovery rests in the fact that remains of the great Irish Elk 
(Megaceros hibernicus) were found in it, in conjunction with the bones of 
other deer and of bears, and along with a polished greenstone celt (Neolithic) 
and several bone-rubbers. 
Ror-DEER IN Dorsetsutre.—lIn the last number of ‘The Zoologist’ 
(p. 262), 1 see my friend Mr. Mansel-Pleydell imagines that I took Ireland 
to be one of the native haunts of the Roe-deer. What I said (p. 170) was 
that “ Lord Dorchester brought a buck and two does over from. Ireland.” 
As he had an estate in Ireland it is very likely he had some Roe-deer on it, 
which might have been brought at an earlier date from Scotland. My 
information about their being brought over from Ireland and America came 
from Mr. Longman, of Poole, whose uncle had the charge of them when 
they first arrived. I trust you will kindly correct, in your next number, the 
mistaken impression my not over-plain note appears to have given rise to.— 
C. W. Date (Glanville’s Wootton, Dorset). 
OrrERS IN SuFFOLK.—-A fine male Otter was shot at Leiston, in this 
county, on the 3rd of May, in one of the mills built for draining the marshes. 
It measured four feet in length from the muzzle to the tip of the tail, and 
weighed twenty-two pounds. Otters exist in small numbers in most of the 
Suffolk streams, but I fear that unless something is soon done to put an 
end to the unceasing persecution they here meet with, these very interesting 
animals will soon go the way of the Badger and the Marten, both of which 
were living in this county within the memory of man, but have now ceased 
to do so.—G. T. Rope (Blaxhall, Suffolk). 
OrnitHoLocicaL Nores From ALDEBURGH.—Many of the readers of 
‘The Zoologist’ will, like myself, have pleasant recollections of Aldeburgh, 
