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The Irish Nainralist. 



February, 



The species which most frequently suffered disaster was the Song-Thrush 

 (only 1 1 per cent, of the nests saw fledged young) ; while the next in mis- 

 fortune were Hedge-Sparrow (22 per cent.), and Blackbird, Greenfinch, 

 and Wren (each 32 per cent). In the case of the last, however, four 

 nests left unfinished were presumably cock nests. 



R. Lloyd Praeger. 



Dublin. 



British Long-tailed Tits in Belfast. 



The winter of 1916-17 so carefully recorded by Mr. C. B. Moffat in the 

 Irish Naturalist for June, 191 7, page 89, was probably the hardest on 

 our avifauna in the memory of the present generation, and amongst others 

 he draws attention to the extermination of the Long-tailed Titmouse 

 {Mgithahis caudatits rose us) in his district ; the same thing seems to have 

 happened here for I have no note of this species in our trees since that 

 winter till yesterday, Christmas Day, 25th December, 1920, when I saw 

 a flock of about a dozen hunting for insects on the Sycamore and Birch 

 trees. I hope they have recovered their old status and that they will 

 become plentiful again. 



W. H, Workman. 



Lismore, 



Windsor Avenue, Belfast. 



The Wren. 



I am glad that several contributors have queried one item in my 

 notes about this bird, namely, that some males do not appear to feed 

 the young in the nest, and I hasten to admit that such males are probably 

 exceptional. 1 have seen other males feeding. But this was a minor 

 point. I still suggest that most females have the nest built for them. 

 However in a multitude of obscr^'ations there will be wisdom. 



Knniskillen. J. P. Burkitt. 



Bats in Co. Fermanagh. 



For many years 1 have been trying to hnd a " roosting place of 

 Dauben'on's Bat {Myotis Daubentoni), which is a common species here, 

 but until August, 19 19, I never could locate it ; however, I then found 

 a large colony of about forty females and two males, under the eaves of 

 my motor house. We had to smoke them out, and caught them as they 

 emerged through a small hole in the wall, with a butterfly net. Among 

 them was one male Pipistrelle [Pipistrellus pipistrellus). On the other 

 side of the gable, we smoked out a quantity of Pepistrelles, but there 

 were no Daubentons amongst them. 



On August 3rd, 1919, 1 picked up dead in the yard an immature Reddish- 

 ,gray Bat {]\Iyotis Nattereri), and a few days later had an adult male 

 of the same species brought to me alive, it had been captured in a room 

 of a house in the village of Tempo. So far I have taken in this immediate 



