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A TALK ABOUT KIRDS. 



The first meeting of the newly-formed Junior Section was 

 held in the Museum, on 6th December, the Chairman of the 

 Section, Mr. Robert Patterson, presiding. Mr. Patterson offered 

 two prizes to be competed for by the junior members — one for 

 the "best-kept notebook recording the information acquired at the 

 AVinter meetings," and one for the " best-kept nature diary for the 

 year 191 2" — and, after the Hon. Secretary of the Section had read 

 various rules and bylaws, Mr. Nevin H. Foster, M.B.O.U., 

 proceeded to deliver the first address to the Junior Section. Mr. 

 Foster gave a description of some of our birds and their nesting 

 habits, illustrated by lantern slides shown by Mr. S. Wear. 



THE FAUNA OF CAVAN. 



A meeting of the Zoological Section was held on 13th 

 December, the Chairman of the Section, Mr. N. H. Foster, 

 presiding. 



The Chairman said that in respect to county lists of fauna 

 and flora Monaghan and Cavan were the most imperfectly worked 

 counties in Ulster, and this induced the Committee to select 

 Cavan for visitation on the Club's long excursion in July last. 

 Four working Botanists and three Zoologists took part in the pro- 

 ceedings, and all did an amount of work, but the dry Summer 

 proved a serious handicap to collectors, and doubtless many plants 

 and animals escaped observation on this occasion. 



During the time spent in Cavan nothing extraordinary was 

 observed in respect to its avifauna. Perhaps the most interesting 

 item was the sight of a Garden-Warbler near Kilmore, this bird 

 being now practically unknown in our home Counties. The 

 common birds were abundant, the diversified nature of the 

 district affording suitable haunts for numerous species, and the 

 total number of species observed amounted to sixty-eight. A 

 breeding colony of Herons was seen in Derrygid Wood, the 



