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The Irish Natiiralht. June, 19.16. 
ZOOLOGY. 
Strophosomus coryli on Larch. % 
This common weevil is "well known to entomologists in all parts of 
Ireland as a haunter of various kinds of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs. 
My friend Mr. A. H. Forbss, of Avondale, Co. Wicklow, tells me that 
there and in Co. Antrim he noticed the species on Larch in the early 
summer of 1914 and 1915 respectively. The beetles were present in 
such great numbers that they were causing appreciable damage to the 
young foliag"" of their unusual food-plant. 
Ct. H. Carpenter. 
Royal College of Science, Dublin. 
Black-eared Wheatear at the Tuskar. 
A New Bird for the Irish List. 
At 7. 15 p.m., on May i6th, 1916, Mr. Glanville collected a Black-Eared 
Wheatear [Oenanihs hispanica) on Tuskar Rock. I am much indebted to 
him for so kindly forwarding the specimen to me in the flesh for identifica- 
tion and investigation. 
This bird is new to Ireland. T hope to publish details a little later 
on, and give the racial form to which the bird belongs. 
C. J. Patten 
The University, Sheffield. 
Carrion Crow at Ireland's Eye. 
On the 15th June I saw at Ireland's Eye, a bird, which, I think, was 
certainly a black Carrioii Crow. I identified it, by the short feathers 
round the base of the bill, seen distinctly through a pair of strong glasses, 
by its flight, by the wide separation of the primary feathers of its wings, 
when in flight, and most of all, by the harsh guttural note it made, when 
mobbed by Herring Gulls. Two years ago I saw a Crow at the same 
place, and recorded the occurrence in the Irish Naturalist, vol. xxiii., 
p. 124. 
George C. May. 
Dublin. 
June, T916. 
