British Long-Tailed Tits in BelfastAuthor(s): W. H. WorkmanSource: The Irish Naturalist, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Feb., 1921), p. 26Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25525017 .

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26 The Irish Naturalist. February,

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

(only 11 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, 1917, 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

(Mgithalus caudatus roseus) 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. I 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 observations there will be wisdom.

Enniskillen. J. P. Burkitt.

Bats in Co. Fermanagh. For many years I have been trying to find a

" roosting

" place of

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

but until August, 1919, 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, I picked up dead in the yard an immature Reddish

gray Bat (Myotis 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

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