DUBLIN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



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Woodcut illustrative of Dr. Corrigan's paper On some structural peculiarities in Syngnathidse (vide page 4). 



Fig. 1, S. cequoreus in profile, with mouth closed ; Fig. 3, ditto, ditto, mouth ex- 

 panded; Fig. 2, under- view of Fig. 3 : <?, elastic band connecting lower lip (<?) and 

 glosso-hyal bone ; b, derrick ; c, bone terminating in a muscle which connects it with (/») 

 angle of body case ; /, operculum ; ^, upper jaw. 



FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1860. 



William Andrews, M. R. I. A., President, in the Chair, 



The previous Minutes were read and signed. The following were pre- 

 sented to the Museum : — 



Elack Eedstart {Phoenicura tithys), male and female : obtained at 

 Killiney, county of Dublin, December, 1859. Presented by J. E. Kina- 

 han, Hon. Sec. 



Fieldfare {M. pilaris). Presented by Arthur Pollock, Esq., Oat- 

 lands, Navan. 



Professor Kinahan, P. L. S., read the following papers : — 



ON THE OCCURRENCE OP THE BLACK REDSTART (pH. TITHYS) IN THE NEIGH- 

 BOURHOOD OF DUBLIN. 



In addressing a Dublin audience, it is scarcely necessary to dwell on 

 the picturesque scenery which, surrounding Killiaey Bay, has long ren- 

 dered it one of the favoiuite resorts of the citizens, and which even stiU 

 enables it to hold its ground as such, although the march of improve- 

 ment and railways has destroyed much of the rocky grandeur which 

 but a few years since invested this spot with a savage wildness. But, 

 possibly, many of my hearers may be unaware that to the naturalist the 



