1906. 
Notes. 
235 
Marine MoUusca of South-east Wexford. 
As the marine Amna of the south-eastern extremity of Ireland appears 
to have received little attention either from the dredger or the shore 
collector, the following notes on the Mollusca of the Wexford coast in 
the neighbourhood of Rosslare, Greenore Point, andCarnsore Point may 
be of interest. They were made during the visit of the Dublin Field Club 
to Rosslare on the 5th and 6th July last. A half hour on the strand 
north of Rosslare hotel yielded only thirty-seven species. Most of these 
were ubiquitous for Ireland, but the following may be mentioned as 
being apparently unrecorded for Wexford '.— Rissoacostata, Adaon iornatilis, 
Plnirotoma rufa, Montaciita bidentata^ and Lacuna pallidula. In shell sand 
from this station, too, a couple of specimens of the minute sea-urchin, 
Echhiocyatnus pusillus were found. A small gathering of sand made at 
Ballyhire, immediately south of Greenore Point, gave better results, 
yielding twelve specimens of Cacmn glabrum, five of AcHs unica, two each 
of Lamellitta perspicua^ Cydostrema serpuloides^ and Eulima distorta, and one 
each of Rissoa proxhna and R, ftilgida. A handful of Latirencia pinnatifida 
taken from the rocks at Carnsore Point on the 6th July gave numerous 
specimens of Skenea planorbis and three of Odostomia pallida. All of the 
species mentioned in this note appear to be previously unrecorded for 
Wexford, and Rissoa ftilgida is new for Marine Province II. of Mr. Nichols' 
List oj the Marine Mollusca of Ireland. 
N. COI^GAN. 
Sandycove, Co. Dublin. 
Anodonta cygnea in Co. Clare. 
Since writing my notice of Anodonta cygnea in Co. Clare, published in 
the August number of the Irish Naturalist (supra p. 189), my attention has 
been called to the fact that this shell has previously been recorded (^Irish 
Naturalist, 1902, p. 140), by Mr. Grierson, for Loughannillon, making an 
earlier record than mine. 
Harry Fogerty. 
Limerick. 
Gannets on the Little Skellig. 
On June 5th this year I sailed around the Little Skellig Rock, Co. 
Kerry. The gannets were in full swing — gathering surface seaweed for 
their nests — and thousands were sitting on nests already made. I am 
glad to say they have increased enormously since my last visit nearly 
twenty years ago, and the entire rock is inhabited. I estimate fifteen to 
twenty thousand gannets. If the colony continues to increase at the 
same rate for the next ten years, it will be the largest in Europe. 
RiCHARP M. BaRJIINGTOIT, 
Fassaroe, Bray. 
