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June after this raid had been made, and found the eggs and 

 nestlings of second clutches in the huge open nests. These 

 were in Hollies, which grow there into trees of consider- 

 able size, being evidently of great age. All that district, 

 from Clifden along the southern margin of Co. Galway, is 

 full of Herons, which are met with on the creeks and loughs, 

 and seem to replace the Rook in abundance. Of course there 

 are no stately trees for them to breed in, but that is quite 

 unessential, as isolated bushes in a bog-lake suit them 

 as well. 



The Hooded Crow builds in similar positions, and the 

 Kestrel uses the old nest when deserted by the Crow. 



The tw^o small lakes of Termoncarra and Cross in the 

 Mullet are favourite resorts of Bewick's Swan in winter, 

 and in hard seasons large flocks of these birds may be seen 

 there, and fly from one lake to the other. In ordinary 

 seasons they occur in small parties, but from November, 1892, 

 to February, 1893, upwards of a thousand were to be seen 

 daily for weeks, as the late Dr. Burkitt informed me. 

 Numbers of wild fowl of other species are said to frequent 

 those lakes, and on or near them the Snow Goose has more 

 than once occurred ; while the Greenland Falcon has been 

 repeatedly taken in that district, notably in the spring of 1905. 



Cappagh, Co. Waterford. 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



thuidiTim delicatulum Mitt, in Co. Dublin. 



1 found this rare moss on the sandhills at Malahide last spring (1904) 

 When botanising there with Mr. D. M'Ardle. It has been found twice 

 before in Ireland, in Co. Derry and Co. Down, in similar localities by the 

 isea, and should be looked for in suitable places inland. 



Saintfield. 



C. H. Waddki,!,. 

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