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and exhibits, in addition to the two filaments which appear before 

 each eye, a third fleshy appendage placed nearer to the eye, and un- 

 connected with the others. 



Notwithstanding these discrepancies, the general accordance of 

 Mr. Harvey's fish with the figures of the ocellated Sucker given by 

 the authors above quoted, and its possessing the character whence 

 the trivial name has been derived, make me unwilling, without further 

 investigation, to consider the species distinct. 



A notice of two specimens of Lepadogaster bimaculntus, Flem., 

 having occurred to me on the coast of Down, was, early in the pre- 

 sent session, communicated to the Linnean Society, it being at the 

 same time remarked that the spots from which the species had ob- 

 tained its scientific as well as trivial name were in both instances 

 wanting. Since that time T, on one occasion, took upwards of a 

 dozen specimens of this fish, by deep dredging in Belfast Bay : one 

 or two of these were also immaculate. 



Leptocephalus Morrisii, Penn. By the kindness of scientific 

 friends I am enabled to mention the occurrence of six specimens of 

 Lei^t. Morrisii on the coast of Ireland. Mr. Ball has thus written 



me respecting it : ' The first I saw was at Cove, in 1809 I 



was at the capture of a second at Clonakilty, in 1811. I caught one 

 myself at Youghal, in 1819, and procured another which was taken 

 there. The fifth, the specimen which I have preserved, was taken 

 in a shrimp-net, at Youghal also, in 1829 ; the four others having 

 been found under stones, near low-water mark.' Dr. J. L. Drum- 

 mond informs me that when in Bangor, county Down, in June, 1831, 

 a specimen o£ Lept. Morrisii, about 4 inches in length, was brought 

 to him : it had been just taken from a pool left in the sand by the 

 ebbing tide, and was almost perfectly transparent. 



Syngnathus Ophidion, Linn. Of this fish I have seen a few spe- 

 cimens, which were obtained by Mr. G. C. Hyndman at the entrance 

 of Strangford Lough, in March, 1832. 



Ammoccetes branchialis, Flem. I have specimens of this fish from 

 the county of Kildare. 



The oceanic shell lanthina exigua, Sow., which was, I believe, 

 for the first time noticed in 1834, as occurring on the English coast 

 (Turton, in Mag. of Nat. Hist., vol. vii. p. 352), and never before 

 on that of Ireland, was obtained in considerable abundance in Sep- 

 tember, 1834, at Kilkee, on the coast of Clare, by Mrs, James Fisher, 

 of Limerick." — W. T. 



Mr. Thompson also read the following notes respecting two Birds, 

 which he regarded as interesting on account of the rarity of their 

 occurrence. 



Scolopax Sahini, Vig. The specimen exhibited of this very rare 

 bird is one of the four individuals noticed by Mr. Yarrell in a paper 

 on British Snipes, which appeared in the ' Magazine of Natural Hi- 



