Vol. xiix., No. 3. 



March, 1920. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



The Common Wren. — E. P. Butterfield . . . . 21 



Nathaniel Colgan. — The Most Rev. C. F. D'Arcy, d.d., 



Archbishop of Dublin . . . . . . 23 



Obituary ; 



Professor George Macloskie 



Reviews : 



J. Cash .and G. H. W.ailcs, " British Freshwater "Khizopoda and 



Heliozoa."— (G.H:C.) .. .. 24 



S. C. Johnson, "Pastimes for the Nature Lover." — (G.H.C.) .. 24 



Notes : ' 



Necrobia 'rufipes in Belfast. — Rev. W. F. Johnson, m.a. . . 23 



Rhyssa perguasoria in Ireland. — J. X. Halbert, m.r.i.a. . . 25 



Age of a Plaice . . • . . . . . . . . -5 



Bibhography of British Oxnithology .. .. .. 21 



New Books on Birds — a Correction. — C. B, ]\Ioffat, b.a., m.r.i.a. 2* 



Velvet Scoter, &c., at Mutton Island, Co. Galway.- — W. Ruttledge 2* 



Bewick's Swan in Co. Down. — Nevin H. Foster, f.l.s. .. 2' 



Bramblings iii N. E. Cork. — W. M. Abbott ' . . 2 



New Jrish Whale — a Correction. — R. F. Scharff, b.sc, m.r.i.a. 2 



Irish Societies r 



Royal Zoological Society . . . . . . . . 27 



Dublin Microscopical Club .. .. .. .. 28 



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