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The Irish Naturalist. 
January,. 
stack of Dun-Mohr, but this ought not to make any difference 
to the birds that breed on the north-eastern chffs. It is 
worth noticing that it is recorded by Mr. Charles Kirk, in 
the Scottish Naturalist iov October, that in 1913 Razorbills- 
and Guillemots were both also very scarce upon Ailsa Craig,, 
on the opposite side of the North Channel. 
After Professor Patten's discovery of the Tree -Sparrow in 
InishtrahulL, we closely inspected the sparrows of Kathlin,. 
but we found no sign of the Tree -Sparrow there. The 
House-Sparrow is tolerably common^ although rather local ,, 
its distribution depending mainly upon the presence of 
thatched roofs. It has not yet spread to the lighthouse 
buildings on the east coast of the island, although it is 
common round the old thatched cabins a quarter of a mile 
away. 
Maiiienl'.ead. 
COI.EOPTERA COLLECTED BY THE LATE 
H. L. ORR. 
BY REV. W. JOHNSON, M.A,, F.E.S. 
THOtJcri giving most of liis spare time to work at the Hyme- 
noptera, Mr. Orr picked up from time to time a number of 
beetles. Among them I have found many interesting 
species, which, when recorded in the Irish Naturalist,- Will 
form a monument " aere ferennius " to the devotion of 
my late lamented friend to the study of nature. Prominent 
among these species is that beautiful Carabid, C, nitens. 
This handsome insect is very uncommon in Ireland, and there 
is no other recent record except that by the late Mr. Buckle 
from the Foyle district. It frequents heaths, and I have 
been informed is very fond, like others of its genus, of 
running over paths at dusk. Lcistus montanus and Pterosti- 
chus vitreus are both mountain species. The former has' 
not been previously found in Ulster. It seems to be fond 
