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ornithological friend mentioned to me that a specimen of the 

 European bee-eater, whose wonderful combination of the most 

 splendid colours might almost place it as a competitor for 

 beauty with the justly-famed birds of paradise, and the wall- 

 creeper were killed in the South of Ireland, and this spring a 

 male and female of the golden oriole had no sooner made their 

 appearance at Donaghadee than the male was shot." Fortunately 

 this bird was obtained from Mr. Joseph Russell, of Dundonald, 

 on nth May, 1824, and preserved in Mr. Montgomery's 

 collection. A passage was quoted from Montagu on account of 

 its local interest. It referred to the white-tailed sea-eagle : — 

 " John Maxwell, Esq., of Ardbraccan, in Ireland, favoured us 

 with two young birds of this species alive, taken the preceding 

 year on a mountainous precipice or craggy cliff called Slieve 

 Donald, impending the sea in the County of Down." Among 

 others, Templeton records the glossy ibis from the Bog Meadows, 

 the goshawk and hobby as nesting in Ulster (but this must be 

 a mistake for the peregrine), and records a nest of the woodlark 

 with four eggs, the female hatching, found October 10th, 1824. 

 No mention was made of the grasshopper warbler, but the 

 reader stated that this bird was frequent in the district between 

 Carnmoney and the shore, and seemed to be increasing with 

 the increase of meadow land in the country. 



Several members spoke of the interest of these original 

 manuscript notes, and of the high position which Mr. Templeton 

 occupied as a naturalist. 



The President then called on Mr. W. J. Knowles, M.R.I.A., 

 for his notice of the occurrence of flint flakes in the Glacial 

 gravels of Ballyrudder, near Larne, Co. Antrim. 



Mr. Knowles said : — A few years ago there was a very good 

 section of these gravels exposed, which I examined, and, seeing 

 a large quantity of flints chipped and broken in the face of the 

 section, I excavated in various places and found a number of 

 objects in situ, which, if they occurred in other situations, I 

 should have no hesitation in describing as artificially-formed 

 flakes ; but, being found in a Glacial formation, I feel it right 



