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occasionally and cast in the morning. I hope to be able to verify 

 this by actual observation, but owing to the wariness of the Curlews 

 it may not be possible to do so. — Eichard Elmhirst. 



PISCES. 

 Long Rough Dab in the Irish Sea. — In the 'Victoria County 

 History of Lancashire ' it is stated that the Long Eough Dab 

 (Drepanopsetta platessoides) is very rare in the Irish Sea, indeed, so 

 uncommon that there is no local name for it. The author adds that 

 he has seen three or four specimens taken between Lancashire and 

 the Isle of Man. In view of its rarity, it may be of interest to state 

 that in July, 1909, the Common Terns on the Cumberland and North 

 Lancashire coastline were feeding their young on very small speci- 

 mens of this fish, of which I found a fair number on the nesting 

 sites. In July, 1910, only a few odd specimens were seen, and in 

 1911-12 and 1913 it was entirely absent.— H. W. Eobinson, M.B.O.U., 

 RZ.S.S. (Lancaster). 



A Correction. — In a paper on "The Fauna of Eeservoir Plants," 

 published in the ' Zoologist,' vol. xviii., May, 1914, the present 

 writer made the following statement on p. 185: — " In the Hawaiian 

 Islands a species of Eriocaulon provides a habitation for the larvae 

 of a Culicid and for a species of Cyclopid Crustacean." Dr. 

 A. Lutz, of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Eio de Janeiro, who 

 made this discovery, has called the writer's attention to the fact that 

 it occurred in Brazil, not in the Hawaiian Islands. Moreover, the 

 Eriocaulon should be described as growing in, but not as actually 

 floating on, a marsh. Dr. Lutz referred to the matter in 1903 

 (Centralbl. f. Bakteriologie, Abt. 1, vol. 33, p. 291). The writer's 

 apologies are due to him for this erroneous citation from his work. 

 On the following page (186) of the paper in question, in referring to 

 the fauna of Pandanacece, it was stated that these plants are trees 

 with stilt-roots, and that various animals have been found between 

 their leaf-bases in the Hawaiian and in the Seychelles Islands. This 

 statement might have been more explicit. In the Seychelles the 

 plants in question are indeed trees, being more than one endemic 

 species of the genus Pandanus ; but in the Hawaiian Islands the 

 species referred to was a climbing member of the Pandanacece, 

 Freycinetia arnotti, and the creature found in it was an Amphipod 

 Crustacean of the genus Orchestia. This latter discovery was also 

 made by Dr. Lutz, and is mentioned on pp. 281-5 of his work cited 

 above. — Hugh Scott (University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge). 



