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Pisidium parvulum in Co. AntrimAuthor(s): A. W. StelfoxSource: The Irish Naturalist, Vol. 28, No. 7/8 (Jul. - Aug., 1919), pp. 92-93Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25524848 .
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92 The Irish Naturalist. July-Aug.,
Leucophasia sinapis in Co. Cork.
I took a few specimens of the Wood White (Leucophasia sin apis) in
some marshy ground bordered by trees near Mallow, not far from the
Railway Station, on the afternoon of May 30th whilst waiting for the
train to bring me on to Killarney. I believe this butterfly is not only new to Mallow but has not been hitherto recorded from Co. Cork, though doubtless it will turn up in other parts of the county when looked for.
That it should have so long escaped notice only proves, alas ! the want
of observers.
Holland Park Gardens, London, W. L- H. Bonaparte Wyse.
Leucophasia sinapis in Co. Wicklow.
On May 27th I took a fine male L. sinapis on a hedge dividing a lower
spur of the Great Sugar-loaf Mountain from Kilmacanogue marsh. On
May 28th I took another, also a male, along the hedge dividing
Kilmacanogue marsh from the main road leading to the Glen of
the Downs. The nearest wood?and one usually associates woods
with this species?is The Quill about half a mile distant ; this I have
searched for further trace without result as yet. I can find no previous record of this rather local insect in the Dublin district.
Epsom. R- H- S- Tebb
Pisidium parvulum in Co. Antrim.
On the occasion of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club excursion to
Moira and the Broad water in May last, I dredged the canal for mollusca
and was surprised upon working through my material at home to find that
Pisidium parvulum was one of the commonest representatives of the
genus. Since Mr. R. A. Phillips first recorded this little species as fossil
from Ireland (Irish Naturalist, vol. xxv., 1916, p. 101) he has discovered
it living only in the River Suck near Ballinasloe, Co. Galway. Having failed to find it in the Lough Neagh basin I had come to regard it as
almost certainly absent from N.E. Ireland ; its abundance in the deeper
parts of the canal between Moira station and Aghalee is therefore rather
curious. The molluscan fauna of the canal at this point, its head waters, is as follows :?Limnzea stagnalis, L. auricularia var. acutat L. pereger,
Physa fontinalis, Planorbis carinatus, PI. albus, PI. glaber, PL fontanus, Valvata piscin?lis, V. cristata, Bithynia tentaculata, Anodonta cygnea,
Sphaerium corneum, Sph. lacustre, Pisidium subtruncatum, P. parvulum, P. nitidum, P. milium, P. amnicum, P. casertanum, P. henslowanum, P. pulchettum, and P. hibernicum. I have listed the Pisidia in the order
of frequency of occurrence in the dredgings. T have considerable doubt
as to whether the species here referred to is the Pisidium parvulum of
Clessin and Westerlund, as the only two sets of shells so named that 1
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1919. Notes. 93
have seen from the original locality in Sweden1 have, upon examination,
proved to comprise exceedingly small, though fully matured, specimens of Pisidium hibernicum and P. nitidum. This form of P. hibernicum
much more nearly fits the original description than does the species now
bearing the name parvulum; while the accompanying specimens oi
P. nitidum resemble a very small form of the variety which I have des
cribed as var. crassa {Journal of Concholtgy, vol. xv., 1918, p. 205). It
seems possible therefore that when the matter is cleared up the name
parvulum will have to be dropped.
Ballymagee, Bangor, Co. Down. A. W. Stei.fox.
Rollan in Lough Ree.
On March 22nd of this year I found on the shore of Lough Ree a
half-killed Pollan, presumably Core?onus pol\ant commonly called the "
Fresh water herring." The gulls had pecked her eyes out, a female
fish about 1 lb. in weight. It is the only specimen I have seen from this
lake, and the net fishermen I have spoken to say that they have never
caught one.
The Bay, Athlone. J- >u*wt Darling.
Hoopoe in Innishowen.
On 28th April Mr. J. A. Johnston captured a Hoopoe (Upupa epops
Linnaeus) whose wing had been slightly injured by a shot, near Cam
donagh, Co. Donegal. It was in good plumage and he, kept it until 2nd
May, feeding it on bread and milk and supplying it with fresh sods.
During his absence from home the bird escaped.
Templemore Park, Londonderry. D- C* Campbell.
Incubation of Birds.
In reply to Mrs. Rait Kerr (July, 1918), last year I watched a nest
of Ringed Plover (Aegialitis hiaticold) ; the fourth egg was laid on May 26th and the young were all out on June 19th?24 days. This year
with the same birds the fourth egg was laid on 21st April, and the young made their appearance on 14th May?24 days. All the egg chips are
removed immediately.
The Bay, Athlone. J- ffolliott Darling.
1 One set is in the Westerlund collection in the National Museum in
Dublin ; the other in trie "
M'Andrew collection "
kindly sent me for
examination by Dr. Bryant Walker ot Detroit, U.S.A
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