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Praeger. — Notes on Antrim Plants. 



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Miscellanea. 



Oq the day before 1113/ arrival, Stelfox visited Orra Beg, 

 and found Lycopodium alpinum there, on the north side, 

 at 1,050 feet elevation. One seedling on the shore of 

 Loughnafanogy near Parkmore, at over 900 feet, was all 

 we saw of Lastrea Oreopteris. On lake-shores on the plateau 

 at about 1,000 feet we found a seedling of Ash on two 

 occasions, and of Sycamore once ; these probably sprung 

 from seeds carried up by gales, which fell into the water 

 and were washed ashore. Matricaria discoidca appears 

 now widespread in Antrim, one of the last counties into 

 which it penetrated. We saw it at Gawley's Gate on Lough 

 Neagh, in several places about Ballymena, and up to 500 

 feet in the lanes north of Carnlough. 



We may mention that the Large Heath Butterfly 

 [Coenonympha typhon) was seen at Lough Naroon and several 

 times on the plateau, and a Peacock Butterfly on shore of 

 Lough Neagh opposite the Three Islands. A small ant 

 which helped to eat our lunch on the edge of Lough Fine 

 on the plateau was identified as Leptothorax acervonim, 

 for which there appears to be no Ulster record ; and 

 Stelfox took the water-beetle Agabus ardicus at the Bush 

 Head on SUevenanee, known previously in Ireland only 

 from the plateau and from Kippure in Co. Dublin. 



IRISH SOCIETIES. 



ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Recent gifts include a Badger from Mrs. Blacker, two Capybaras from 

 Lady I.oder, Rabbits from Miss Osborn and Mr. T. W. Brooke, a Hedgehog 

 from Mr. W. W. Despard, two Jackdaws from Mrs. Draper, a Turtle Dove 

 from Miss Trench, Common Newts from Prof. A. F. Dixon, and Pike from 

 Miss E. and Mr. M. Ferrar. Two Grey Parrots, a pair of Red-rumped 

 Parrakeets, a pair of Quaker Parrakeets, and seven Budgerigars have been 

 received on deposit. A Bison calf has been born in the Gardens, increasing 

 the number of Bison in the collection to five. 



Several interesting specimens have lately been acquired by purchase : — • 

 two Sooty Mangabeys, a Green Monkey, a pair of White-eared Marmosets, 

 a Ring-tailed Coati, a Crested Porcupine, a Coypu, a batch of twenty 

 r.uinea-pigs, a Brown Milvago Eagle from Paraguay, two Curassows, a 

 pair of Vinaceous Doves, and a Giant Tortoise from the Seychelles. 



