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The Insh Naturalist. June, 1921. 



The four records belong to the following species :— 



Lesser Rorqual [Balaenoptera acutoro strata) — Broadhaven, Co. Mayo, 

 January 7th, 1919, 15ft. long. 



Cuvier's Whale ? {Ziphius cavirostris) — Gweebarra Bay, Co. Donegal, 

 July 3rd, 1919, 1 8ft. long. The body of this animal was in a putrid 

 condition and had been badly damaged, but from a sketch made by the 

 coastguard of Portnoo, Narin, Sir Sidney Harmer was of opinion that the 

 specimen may have been a female or young male Cuvier's Whale. The 

 identification was necessarily doubtful. 



Dolphin {Delphinus delphis) — .Youghal, Co. Cork, August 4th, 1919, 

 8ft. 6in. long. 



Porpoise [Phocaena communis) — Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Nov. 

 15th, 1919. 



No particulars seem to have been furnished as to the length of the 

 specimen. 



While the Whale fisheries on the Irish coasts have been suspended 

 they seem still to be carried on in Scotland, and Sir Sidney Harmer reports 

 that at the Bunaresseader Whaling Station in 1920 there were captured 

 I Atlantic Right Whale, 135 Common Rorquals, 30 Blue Whales, 31 

 Rudolphi's Rorqual and i Humpback Whale. 



BOTANY. 



Ranunculus Auricomus and Chelidonium majus in Co. 



Wexford. 



I am glad to be able to add the Goldilocks to the flora of Co. Wexford, 

 where it seems hitherto to have escaped discovery. During a recent visit 

 to my sister at Mount Forest I found it growing in several spots about 

 Ballycanew, on the Owenavorragh river. This district, though within 

 a few miles of Gorey and of Courtown Harbour, appears to have been 

 but little explored. Its flora, during three visits within the past 12 

 months, struck me as singularly meagre, and among the plants I totally 

 failed to find I may specially mention Scrophularia aquatica, which in 

 other parts of Wexford seems scarcely less common (if not more so) than 

 S. nodosa. Two local species observed near Ballycanew were Bidens 

 tripartita and Epipactis latifolia. 



As Wexford is one of the few counties for which the Greater Celandine 

 apparently wants a record, I may mention having noticed it by a roadside 

 not far from Camolin, between that town and the village of Ballyoughter 

 The inevitable farmhouse also occurs, but the plant seems well established . 



C. B. Moffat. 



Dublin. 



