370 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



(2). Pupa secale. — Of this species I have failed to find the 

 slightest trace in any quarry at or near Headington. Mr. 

 Whiteaves says it is " extremely local," yet " found in great 

 abundance at Headington Quarry." Perhaps there has been 

 some mistake about the identity of this species. 



(3). Limncea glabra. — Mr. Whiteaves mentions that the ditch 

 whence he took this species was subsequently destroyed, and 

 since then it does not seem to have been found again. 



(4). Limnaa glutinosa. — "One fine specimen" was taken by 

 Mr. "Whiteaves " from a clear brook communicating with the river 

 on the right-hand side of the path between the railway-lake and 

 South Hincksey." This solitary specimen does not appear in 

 the collection at the Museum. A series of this species will be 

 found there, but the absence of labels makes it impossible to 

 ascertain whether or not they come from the immediate neigh- 

 bourhood of Oxford. 



OKNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM MAYO AND SLIGO. 



By Robert Warren. 



The winter and spring of 1882-83 were remarkable for the 

 scarcity of wildfowl of all kinds in Killala Bay and the Estuary 

 of the Moy. October began with a severe storm on the 1st, and, 

 with the exception of nine days' frost and some snow from the 

 6th to the 15th of December, the entire winter was unusually 

 wet and stormy ; the lowest temperature indicated by the thermo- 

 meter during the frost was on the night of the 10th December, 

 when the mercury fell to 19°. 



A fair number of Wigeon appeared at the latter end of 

 November and during the week's frost in December, but they 

 afterwards left for some other locality, and for the rest of the 

 season the numbers that remained about the Estuary were 

 smaller than I can remember. 



A fair number of Curlews frequented the sands throughout 

 the winter, but only a tithe of the immense flocks usually to be 

 met with. The few Lapwings that were about disappeared, as 

 usual, on the appearance of the frost in December. No Golden 

 Plover visited the sands; a few Redshanks, and only three 

 Greenshanks were to be seen about their old haunts along the 



