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Notes, 
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paper on Irish Mollusks. (Proc. Royal Irish Acad., vol. xxix. (b), 
191 1 ). Although the range of the three species is somewhat similar, 
Testacella scutuhim has a more distinctly eastern distribution than the two 
others. The first specimens were sent to me from Birr by Miss M. J. Delap, 
who knew Testacella well, having previously noticed it on her native 
Valencia Island. Miss Delap observed it in Birr in an old garden which 
had been much neglected for many years and is now occupied by Miss 
Stoney. Miss Stoney has kindly forwarded another specimen since. 
The orange colour and the characteristic form of the dorsal grooves proved 
these specimens to belong to Testacella scutulnm. Another Testacella of 
the same species from near Birr in King's County, was found in an old 
garden at Oxmantown, and sent by Mr. Edward Clarke to Professor 
Carpenter for identification. 
R. F. SCHARFF. 
National Museum, Dublin. 
Peculiar Nesting Site of Black Gruillemots. 
During the last two nesting seasons the Black Guillemots {Uria 
gyylle) have taken to the much frequented piers of Bangor and Bally waiter 
both .situated in the County of Down, for their nesting operations. In 
the Northern Whig for September 20th and 27th, a correspondent gives 
a clear description of these birds which nested at Bangor Pier, and my 
friend Mr. Hughes of Ballywalter, a most careful observer gave me a full 
description of this species, and tells me it has nested between the stones 
of the Ballywalter Pier for the last two years and probably longer. I 
am glad to say the coastguards protect these birds, and it is quite easy 
to get within a couple of yards of them as they sit on the pier wall. 
It is a most extraordinary thing that such wild birds as these should 
nest in such frequented places. The only way I can account for it is that 
their old breeding haunts in Rathlin have become congested, and 
these birds have flown over to the County Down shore to look for a 
site, but could find no rocky crevices to make their nest in, and took 
to the above-mentioned piers as the best substitute for the cliffs. 
W. H. Workman. 
Belfa.st . 
Departure of Spotted Flycatchers. 
Referring to Canon Flemyng's note (p. 219 ante), it may be interesting 
to record the latest date on which the Spotted Flycatcher, Musicapa 
griola, was seen here for the past thirteen years, 1901 — nth September; 
1902 — 4th September; 1903 — 21st September; 1904 — 9th September; 
1905— loth September; 1906 — 15th September; 1907 — 3rd September; 
1908 — 23rd August; 1909 — 4th September J 191c — 25th August; ion- — nth 
August; 1912 — 12th August; 1913 — 15th August. 
Hillsborough, Co. Down, 
Nevin H. Foster. 
