MARINE MOLLUSCA OF DONEGAL AND DUBLIN. 181 



Scotland.— In Scotland the Cirl Bunting appears to be only 

 a rare straggler. Mr. R. Gray records a specimen shot near 

 Yetholm, in Roxburghshire, about 1840, and a male shot near 

 Banchory, in Aberdeenshire, in December, 1863 (' Birds of W. of 

 Scotland,' p. 132). Mr. Edward recorded the occurrence of one in 

 Banffshire (Zool. 6598) ; and in his ' Fauna of Banffshire' (' Life,' 

 by Smiles), he says, "Very rarely found in this quarter." Yarrell 

 writes, " the shooting of one near Edinburgh was announced by 

 the late Prof. James Wilson so long ago as 1816 (Mem. Wern. Soc. 

 ii. p. 658)." In Col. H. M. Drummond Hay's ' Report on the 

 Ornithology of the East of Scotland,' p. 8 (for a copy of which 

 I am indebted to the kindness of the author), is the following 

 entry : — " The nest and eggs of this species are said to have been 

 found on Moncreiffe Hill, near Perth ; but the bird has never 

 been got (fide Mr. J. Stewart, Perth)." Mr. W. Evans, of Edin- 

 burgh, writes that it " can only be regarded as a very rare 

 casual visitant." 



Ireland. — The Cirl Bunting was recorded as having been 

 seen at Wexford by Mr. Blake Knox (Zool. s. s. p. 95), but Mr. 

 A. G. More, in his latest edition, has excluded it from the 

 Irish list. 



In conclusion, I may add that my remark, at the bottom of 

 page 121, is not intended to imply that this bird is especially 

 abundant in elm-growing districts, but merely to indicate its 

 fondness for tall elms. In some strongholds of the Cirl Bunting 

 the oak is the prevailing forest tree, and in others frequented 

 by it the beech abounds. 



NOTES ON MARINE MOLLUSCA COLLECTED ON THE 

 COASTS OF DONEGAL AND DUBLIN. 



By H. Chichester Hart, F.L.S. 

 (Concluded from p. 141). 



Janthina rotundata. Leach. — Donegal : frequently blown on 

 various parts of the coast in summer and autumn. I have 

 gathered some near Horn Head, and also at the Bottom Shore, 

 and at Carrablagh, in Fanet* 



Natica catena. Da Costa (N.monilifera) l — Dublin and Donegal, 

 common* 



