Iceland Gull at MoyviewAuthor(s): Robert WarrenSource: The Irish Naturalist, Vol. 11, No. 8 (Aug., 1902), p. 188Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25522183 .

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i88 The Irish Natutalist. Augutst,

Great Auk in Co. Clare.

I have the pleasure to announce the recent discovery of bones of this

extinct bird in the kitchen-tniddens of the Co. Clare coast. These con

sist of a tibia from near Lahinch, and a coracoid from the coast north of

Doonbeg. They were found by Mr. James Duffy, who accompanied me.

In both cases the relics occurred (like the Great Auk bones in Co.

Waterford) on the surface between the sand-hills. The other objects found there were slabs of sandstone used for hearths, broken and

burned pot-boilers in profusion, with multitudes of shells of limpets and periwinkles, bones of horse, cow, pig goat, or sheep, and horns of

Red Deer; ,with these, we have found in Co. Clare some peat and bog

is ood.

It seems piobable that the Great Auks, whose bones have occurred

amid such surroundings in Antrim, Waterford, and Clare, were been uised for food by the ancient inhabitants; and where they have existed

in such w;dely-separazed localities, we need nlot despair of finding

remainis of this species on othef parts of the shores of Ireland.

R. J. USSHER.

Cappagh, Co. Waterford.

Iceland Gull at Moyview.

I was pleased to see Mr. D. C. Campbell's notice of Iceland Gul

(La-rus leucopterus) at Londonderry, seen on 7th of April. We also had a

visit from one of that species of gull here on the 25th of January, when

I observed a bird in that creamy-coloured plunage of the second year

resting on the water of one of my fields; and again, on the iith

February, I saw probably the same bird on the shore, with some

Herrinig Gulls, near the shipping quay, a mile from Ballina.

RoBERT WARREN.

Moyview, Ballina.

Breeding Habits of the British Squirrel.

In recent issues of the Li-sh Araturalist I have noticed some letters on

the above subject. Perhaps you may think it worth while to reproduce

the following, being part of a note, entitled " Young Squirrels," which I contributed to the Natural History column of the Irish Sportsman of

October x8th, I892. The Irish Sporsman is out of print, and its files are

probably inaccessible to naturalists. Further, the note includes all information on the subject which I was able to collect at the time of

writing "To the Zoologist for March, I8gI, Mlr. E. Mr. H. Blagg, of Cheadle,

Staffordshire, contributed an interesting note on this point, in which

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