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the lake margins, this species having grown rapidly this season. 

 The marshes yield the tiny vertigoes, V. antivertigs, and V. 

 substriata (R.W.). On the return journey all the members and 

 friends were received by Mrs. Walkington at her picturesque 

 residence, Oatlands, where she, with the assistance of Mr. and 

 Mrs. H. ' Walkington, entertained them to tea. The cheerful 

 hospitality was thoroughly appreciated, and the kind reception 

 of the Club will not soon be forgotten by them. It might be 

 mentioned that in the drawing-room at Oatlands a beautifully 

 carved model in Irish oak of the high cross of Monasterboice, 

 by Robert May, attracted much notice, and gained the artist 

 much and well-merited praise. Before leaving Oatlands a 

 business meeting of the Club was held on the lawn, when a 

 resolution was carried conveying to- the President, Mr. W. H. 

 Phillips, the deep sympathy of the Club in the loss he has 

 isustained by the death of his wife. A most hearty vote of 

 thanks was then passed to Mrs. Walkington and Mr. and Mrs. 

 H. Walkington for their kind hospitality, and was gracefully 

 responded to by Mrs. Walkington. At half-past five the home- 

 ward journey was commenced, and in due time Belfast was 

 reachecJ, terminating a most successful day. 



The ornithologists of the party reported having observed 

 four species of the antidae — viz., the mute swan (of which twelve 

 were on the lake), mallard, shoveler, and tufted duck. A great 

 crested grebe with its brood was seen diving and swimming 

 about, as well as numerous little grebes, locally known as "tarn 

 puddins." The day was rather unfavourable for ornithological 

 observation, being somewhat windy ; besides, at this season 

 almost all of our birds are silent, and many of them are now 

 undergoing the moulting process, and consequently keeping in 

 retirement, but during the day thirty species were noted on and 

 about the lake. A flock of ten missel thrushes was observed, 

 but only one song thrush and one blackbird. It is rather 

 remarkable that neither a meadow pipit, a reed bunting, nor a 

 starling was seen, though on previous visits to this locality those 

 species were always noticed in profusion. A member collected 

 some caterpillars of the cinnabar moth (Euchelia jacobaea), 



