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91 



Emmys orbicular is, lor exampk-, should net breed on Laiiibay. I am 

 afraid some of the tortoises mentioned by Mr. Baring cannot succeed. 

 Chrysemmis picta requires plenty of water and does not seem to be able 

 to swallow its food on land. On the other hand, Cistudo Carolina (the 

 Box Tortoise) ought to d") well. It is hardy and fond of loaming about in 

 search of slugs and insects. It even takes to blacklx-rries and other fruits 

 and lives to a good old age. Two other species might be well worth a 

 trial. The Diamond -back Terrapin {Malacoclemmys paliistris or terrapcn) 

 might do in the harbour, as it lives in North America in salt marshes. It 

 feeds on moUusks ana crabs and is very highly estimated as an article 

 of diet. ChelopHS inscitlptus may succeed, as it is quite terrestrial, living 

 on tender vegetation and insects. A few small weedy ponds, however, 

 ought to be established on the island. 



K. F. SCHAKIT. 



National Museum. 



Fulmars on the Skelligs. 



Mr. P. J. ^IcGinley, hghtkeeper at the Skelligs, writes that the colony 

 of Fulmars there this year amounts to about 100 birds. It will be remem- 

 Ix-red {Irish Xaturalist, June, 1914, p. 133) that in 1913, when first noticed, 

 the colony consisted of only eleven or twelve pairs — last year there were 

 about seventy birds, so their numbers are rapidly increasing, and I anti- 

 cipate that this northern spccic^s will in ten or twelve years be found on 

 most of the suitable cliffs on the west coast of Ireland. 



RiCIID. M. BARKINCilON. 



Fassaroe, Bray. 



The Carrion Crow in Ireland. 



As some doubt has been cast on the statement of Mr. Mason {Irish. 

 Xaturalist, 1913, p. 83) on the occurrence of the Carrion Crow on 

 Lambay, it may interest ornithologists to know that I saw a bird 

 and heard the unmistakeable call of this species at the North Slob, Wexford, 

 on February 15th this year. The bird passed within one hundred yard^5 

 of where I was standing ; it \\ as the call of the Carrion Crow, quite unlike 

 that of the Rook to anyone who is familiar with both species, which drew 

 my attention to the bird. 



^\ . J. W illiams. 



Dubhn. 



The Tree-Pipit— A Correction. 



May 1 be permitted to point out a mistake which 1 see in the note 

 entitled " Irish and British Birds," which appeared in last month's issue 

 of the Irish Naturalist {supra, p. 75). " Tree-Pipit" should have been 

 printed instead of " Tree -Sparrow."' 



C. J. Patten. 



Tlie University, Shetheld. 



