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The Irish Naturalist. 
April, 19 14. 
for about seven or eight hours. So that, with reference to the first 
mentioned fish, one mif^ht reasonably draw the conclusion that these five 
bumble bees lived for some time in the interior apartments of the trout, 
and so had ample opportunities of stinging him." 
Waxwing in Co. Armagh. 
A female Waxwing {Ampelis garrulus) shot in a field at Tanaghmore 
North, near Lurgan, co. Armagh, on January 2nd, 1914, has been pre- 
sented to the Dublin Museum by Dr. J. Singleton Darling ; it had been 
feeding largely on the fruit of the wild rose. Five Wax wings have 
now been recorded this winter from the North of Ireland — one from each 
of the five counties Londonderry, Tyrone, Down, Fermanagh, and 
Armagh {Irish Naturalist, March, 1914, and British Birds, March, 1914). 
A. R. Nichols. 
National Museum, Dublin. 
Hawfinch at Balbriggan. 
On the 14th February a working man brought me a male Hawfinch, 
which had been killed the night before by flying against the canvas on 
the hoarding round the grounds of the Coursing Club here. Although I 
have seen small flocks of these birds in the Phoenix Park, when in company 
with Mr. Godden, the Park Ranger, they were so shy that we could not 
get near them. Once only have I had a satisfactory view of this bird, 
and that opposite the " Yellow House," at Rathfarnham. 
Charles W. Benson. 
Balbriggan, Co. Dublin. 
Recent Notices of Irish Birds. 
In the Zoologist for July, R. Warren notes the usual spring visit of 
White Wagtails to Bartragh Island, Mayo, and records a Squacco Heron 
shot in the preceding May near Skibbereen, Co. Cork. In the same 
journal for September, Prof. Patten publishes an article on the Asiatic 
Skylark from the Tuskar. In British Birds for December, G. R. Hum- 
phreys publishes the paper on the Roseate Tern breeding in Ireland, 
which he also contributed to these pages. Miss Best and Miss Haviland 
publish notes on migrants in Rathlin Island (which appeared in enlarged 
form in our January issue), and Dr. Benson has a note on Turtle-Doves 
at Balbriggan, Co. Dublin. In British Birds for November, R. M. 
Barrington publishes captures of the Tree-Pipit and Pied Flycatcher at 
Rockabill, and of Little Auks in August in Donegal and Kerry. 
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