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convenient quarry afforded an excellent stopping-place for lunch. 

 After lunch the members walked to the Broadstone, one of the finest 

 cromlechs of the North of Ireland (Plate VIII.). From there a 

 short mile east brought them to two well-defined raths, with 

 complete trenches and considerable remains of stone ramparts. 

 From here the party visited a second fine cromlech at Lower Craigs 

 (Plate IX.), mounting the brakes again punctually at 4-30 p.m. for 

 the drive to Ballymoney, where tea awaited the members at the 

 Antrim Arms Hotel, the return journey affording excellent views 

 across the valley of the Bann. Mention should be made of an 

 interesting specimen of a sod-house passed on the outward drive, 

 a type of domestic architecture new to most of the party. During 

 the day the ornithologists of the party noted twenty-six species of 

 birds. On the moor near the Broadstone it was evident from 

 their actions that the lapwings and curlews had young in the 

 vicinity. 



The only conchologist in the party accompanied the botanists 

 to Lough Naroon in the hope of finding some mollusca on the 

 scrub-covered cliffs which are such a characteristic feature of the 

 topography of the district. 



These cliffs have long been known to shelter a flora, of which 

 a large percentage of the species are now local or rare in the N.E. 

 of Ireland and a similar state of things can only be expected in the 

 case of the land mollusca. Unfortunately the rain which fell 

 almost prevented a search for these small shells being carried out, 

 but a small list was nevertheless compiled, which fully proved that 

 just as in the case of the flora, so with the snails, the absence of 

 species which one associated with cultivated ground and the 

 presence of those now confined to old native woods and similar 

 places was the most striking point of interest. The following 

 species were observed : — Limax arborum, Agriolimax agrestis, 

 Arion ater, A. intermedius, A. rircumscrip/us, Hyalinia nitidula 

 (type and var. helmi), H. pura, If. alliaria, H. radialula, Punclum 

 pygmceum, Pyramidula rotundata, Acanihinula acufeata, Cochlicopa 



