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words, under water!* The ‘‘ Pinguin” referred to is ii all pro- 
bability either the Razorbill or the Guillemot; notwithstanding 
that the author, at the end of his list, remarks, ‘‘ There are 
doubtless many other birds. I mention only such as I have 
myself observed ’’—seventy-eight species in all. 
Of the ‘“‘ Fishes observed on the Coast and in the Rivers of 
the County of Londonderry,” a systematic list of nearly fifty 
Species is given (pp. 178—181), with observations, as in the case 
of the birds, and a figure of the Opah, or King-fish (Lampris 
luna) is given as “‘the only fish of this species which has been 
known to be taken on the Irish coasts.”’ 
*‘Among the quadrupeds which formerly existed, but are now 
extinct (says the author), is the native Stag or Red-deer. The 
moose-deer is only claimable to these regions by the discovery of 
his horns in our bogs; + the wolf is happily no more; and even 
the fox is gradually withdrawing from the haunts of man and 
his vigilant satellite the dog. Neither have we moles, serpents, 
nor toads, but the frog, who not one hundred years ago was 
(with the Magpie) imported in a luckless hour, has, like his 
fellow-voyager, multiplied exceedingly to our discomfort. The 
otter is yet discoverable, though not common: the marten still 
more rare; the weazel is frequent, but here, as elsewhere, leaves 
it doubtful whether he is to be ranked with the workers of good 
or evil. Had his antipathy to the Norway rat been more active 
he might have preserved the black natives, now almost, if not 
entirely, extinct. With the mischievous domestic mouse, and 
the inoffensive shrew-mouse, I may close this catalogue of our 
natural and adopted quadrupeds.” 
The information here given respecting the fauna of London- 
derry is much the same as will be found in the ‘ Statistical 
Survey’ of that county, published by the same author in 1802. 
Of the limited number of works relating to the fauna of 
Ireland which have been published during the last forty years, it 
will suffice to mention only the titles, since they are doubtless 
* Jt would perhaps be more correct to characterise this statement as 
“ attributed to Temminck,” since we have been unable to verify it. 
+ A fine pair of horns of the true Elk (Alces), discovered at Dardistown, 
near Drogheda, Co. Meath, are described and figured by Dr. Molyneux in 
‘ Boate’s Natural History of Ireland.’ Others found in the Co. Tyrone were 
described by Thompson, P.Z.S., 1837, p. 53. 
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