Cat Kills Stoat and Stoat Kills Carrier PigeonAuthor(s): Hugh D. Pack-BeresfordSource: The Irish Naturalists' Journal, Vol. 6, No. 6 (Nov., 1936), p. 146Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25532641 .

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146 The Irish Naturalists' Journal. [Vol. VI.

it jumped out of the open window, but returned as soon as she left the scullery. She went back, when it again jumped out of the

window, which she shut, and since then the animal has not returned to the house, though it has been seen on two occasions since in the

neighbourhood of the house, on one of which it had a young one with it.

As the Pine Marten is a notoriously shy animal, I can only conclude that it was the desire to obtain food for its young which

made it so bold.

Guilcagh House, Portlaw. R. G. GETHIN.

CAT KILLS STOAT AND STOAT KILLS CARRIER PIGEON. One morning, recently, on going through a yard at Powerscourt, 4u

01 50 ft. square, a corner of which was penned or wired off for fowl, I saw a dead Stoat. I asked the chauffeur in the yard who had killed it and he informed me, pointing to a cat (a sort of Persian) that it

was the culprit, the Stoat having appeared under a door leading from the garden. Since then another Stoat killed a strav Carrier Pigeon, hardly able to fly; its ring was NURR36 UC6550. The rubber band had 0 962. on it.

Dublin. HUGH D. PACK-BERESFORD.

SWIFTS ON RETURN FLIGHT. On arriving in Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow, on the 8th August, at

about 6.30 p.m., I noticed hundreds of Swifts circling over the house, at all heights, and silent. They appeared to be coming over the

mountains from the west, and going east, in the direction of Grey stones. Half an hour later there was not one to be seen, and none the next day. It would be interesting to know if any other observer

noticed their gathering and departure? Dublin. HUGH D. PACK-BERESFORD.

TROCHUS (=MONODONTA) UNEATVS LIVING ON THE COAST OF DUBLIN.

In I.NJ. for July last, p. 102, Miss Nora Fisher recorded the finding of a living specimen on 18th May, 1936, near Balbriggan, On 13th

September I was again in the locality and took rive more specimens, one of which was about half grown and the others adult. The single shell taken on 18th May came from a reef of rocks jutting out to sea about a mile N. of Balbriggan harbour, while the five collected on 13th September were on a similar reef about half that distance N. of the harbour. It would seem therefore that on this part of the Dublin coast T. lineatus is bv no means extinct.*

14 Clareville Road, Dublin. A. W. STELFOX. *In the Guide to the County of Dublin {British Association), 1878,

the only record for T. lineatus, is "Balbriggan, Dr. Farran: now extinct.1'

CALLIOPIUS RATHKEI (ZADDACH) AT PORTSTEWART, CO. DERRY.

A short time ago, whilst collecting marine Crustacea in the rock

pools close to the sandhills at Portstewart, I obtained about twenty specimens of Calliopius rathkei (Zaddach), an amphipod new to the north-east of Ireland. The only previous record of this species occurring in Ireland is that of the four specimens obtained during the Royal Irish Academy Survey of Clare Island and recorded by Prof. Tattersall, in part 42 of the Report.

Belfast. RANALD MacDONALD.

RECORDS OF IMMIGRANT AND HIBERNATING INSECTS.

Immigrant butterflies and moths have been very scarce this year and the first appearances are much later than in recent years. How

ever, I have the following from Mrs, G, E, Lucas, of Ummera House,

Timoleague, Co. Cork: ?

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