House Martin in DecemberAuthor(s): DunleathSource: The Irish Naturalists' Journal, Vol. 6, No. 7 (Jan., 1937), p. 167Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25532663 .

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January, 1937.] The Irish Naturalists' Journal. 167

8. Taeniorhynchus richiardii (Ficalbi). The only specimens of this mosquito that I have seen are three that were sent to

me as having bitten man. It is of interest that both the larva and the pupa of this species breathe by piercing submerged stems of aquatic plants, and tapping air-spaces. This fact is of importance from the point of view of control, since it suggests that paraffining is ineffective with this species.

Mr. Marshall, Director of The British Mosquito Control Institute at Hayling Island, kindly confirmed the identification of specimens of CidliceUa litorea and Taeniorhynchus richiardii.

Belfast, November, 1936.

ZOOLOGICAL NOTES.

HOUSE MARTIN IN DECEMBER.

A House Martin, Delichon u. urbica (L.), was seen flying over

Ballywalter village, Co. Down, on Friday, December 4th, 1936.

Ballywalter Park, Co. Down. 10-12-36. DUNLEATH.

PIED FLYCATCHER IN CO. CORK.

I have received from Mr. McMahon, Principal Keeper, Roancarrig Lighthouse, off the coast of Cork, the leg and wing of a Pied Flycatcher,

Muscicapa h. hypoleuca (Pall.), killed striking the lantern at 3.0 a.m. on September 21st, 1936. This is the twenty-second specimen received from an Irish light-station. Mr. McMahon reports that another bird of this species visited the rock on September 23rd.

Dublin. 26-10-36. G. R. HUMPHREYS.

POMATORHINE SKUA IN CO. LEITRIM.

A specimen of this Skua, Stercorarius pomarinus Temminck, shot at Lareen, Co. Leitrim, about 3 miles from Bundoran, on 23rd October, 1936, has been sent to the National Museum by Mr. N. C. Hamilton of Bundoran. In his letter Mr. Hamilton states that it was one of four birds fljiing at a considerable height over Lareen and that in flight they were mistaken for Curlews. He added that nobody in the district

had ever seen a bird like it before. As the central tail feathers were

scarcely longer than the others, the bird shot may have been a bird of the year.

National Museum, Dublin. A. W. STELFOX.

BITTERN IN CO. ANTRIM.

Mr. 0. A. Clark of Seapark, Greenisland, Co. Antrim, informs me

that on the 6th January, 1937, he picked up a live Bittern, Botaurus s.

stellaris (L.), on Scoutbush Avenue. The bird was in very poor condition ; so weak that it could scarcely stand. He tried to feed it but it would not eat, so he took it to the Belfast Zoo, where it died in about an hour. The Bittern is an uncommon straggler to this

part of Ireland.

Lismore, Windsor, Belfast. 10-1-37. W. H. WORKMAN.

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