288 Bennett: Paludestrina jenkinsi in Fresh Water. 
mite is not uncommon, and is probably widely distributed, 
being doubtless overlooked in consequence of its smallsize. The 
type specimen, which will be placed in the museum at Hull, is 
from Canwick near Lincoln. I also have examples from York- 
shire localities, 
I have named the specimen after Mr. T. Sheppard, who has 
done sc much to advance the knowledge of the natural features 
of his native county, Lincolnshire. 
PALUDESTRINA JENKINS] IN FRESH WATER. 
R. J. WELCH, 
Belfast. 
In Mr. T. Sheppard’s ‘ Lost Towns of the Yorkshire Coast,’ 
page 264, I note his remark that this species may now be found 
in almost pure fresh water. In Ireland, though it often occurs 
in drains and marsh pools near the sea, mostly near or at river 
mouths, the majority of these habitats are really fresh water. 
Those that are not absolutely so seem much too fresh for 
P.ventrosa to live in. Apart from these, however, P. jenkinsi 
lives far inland in Ireland in a number of places in rivers not 
tidal or connected directly with the sea, such as the Upper 
Bann, near its mouth on Lough Neagh, and the mouths of the 
Blackwater and Six Mile Water rivers which also flow into 
Lough Neagh. This Lough, thirty miles long, drains out to 
the sea by the Lower Bann, but I have never found P. jenkinsi 
in it above Coleraine, 7.e., the tidal area. It was at the mouth, 
some miles below Coleraine and close to the sea that I first 
found the species, a new record for Ireland in 1893. This was 
in shell-pockets in the dunes, close to the river, and near this 
in brackish pools in 1897. The species, so far, has not been 
found living in Lough Neagh, even close to the rivers full of it 
which flow into the Lough, though in the late autumn and winter 
immense numbers of dead shells come out of the rivers in floods 
and occur in masses on the Lough shore. This is especially 
the case at the mouth of the Blackwater in Co. Tyrone.* 
In the Letterkenny River, which divides East from West 
Donegal, it is very abundant above the town, and far above 
salt water influences. Stelfox gives in his Irish List, f page 
IIg, a map with its distribution in twenty-three counties in 
Ireland. 
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Turtle Dove nesting near Harrogate.—This year a 
pair of Turtle Doves nested at Killinghall, and at the time of 
writing are incubating—R. ForTUNE, July 19th, 1913. 
*See Milne and Stilfox, Ivish Naturalist, XV., p. 75, 1906. 
{+ Proc. R.I.A., March, rgrt. 
Naturalist, . 
