builds in holes, formed by itself, in the abrupt and high sandy banks; common. -These are said to remain all winter in a state of torpor, clustered together under banks, and in holes.

this variety is not so common, in this county.

There are doubtless many other birds. I mention only such as I have myself observed.

Bees.

Among the varieties of the bee, I have noted the rufa, or small field bee; the terrestris, or humble bee; the subterranea, or great humble bee: but it is only of the mellifica, or hive bee, that we have now to make mention that most active and ill-requited subsidiary to the luxury of man!

About 20 years ago this country was remarkably abundant in honey. I have heard the present farmers say, that, in their fathers' time, the honey was gathered in tub-fulls, at the season of putting down, i. e. of suffocation. There has certainly been a decrease. Few farmers now have any bees; and none have more than three or four scaps.

These scaps are sometimes 14 inches high, and, in diameter, at the lowest ring, generally 11 inches wide.

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About Aghadowey, they are much larger. Our scaps average from 20 to 40lbs. of honey in the comb; from Aghadowey, scaps have been sold containing 106/bs. of honey in the comb.

The scap is made of wheat straw, rolled with splits of briar (rubus fruticosa.)

Our bees generally swarm twice or thrice. The first is in the end of May; the second swarm comes off in 10 or 15 days after the first; and again, the first casts a swarm about the end of July. The other swarms (if any) are not fit for keeping, and should therefore be prevented by raising the scap.

FISHES observed on the Coast and in the Rivers of the County of London

Observations.

common; attached to the rocks of the
Salmon leap, near Coleraine, and
in other rivers occasionally.
very common on the coast; generally
eaten cold with vinegar; the fins
only used; the liver makes oil.-
Quære? Would not the remainder
make good isinglass?-I have heard
from fishermen of another variety
called in Irish calliogh.

the fish not eaten; the entrails yield
oil; it is called by the Irish gub.
boch; the skin used by cabinet-
makers. It is, perhaps, the most
long-lived of all fish, out of water.
five or six rows of teeth; darker on
the back and wider in the nostrils
than the former; sometimes eaten.
I saw one at Culmore; another near
the Bann.

taken in salmon nets in the Foyle river, sometimes seven feet long; the Ash eats like veal.

one of these is depicted as a curiosity, taken shortly after the date of the siege of Derry, ou a map of that day; another was taken at Culmore about twenty years ago, and a third in the summer of 1802, near the mouth of the Bann; it resembles the amputated head of a fish.

Grah or King Fish: 28at long, 10 In: broad

Fins Scarlet. Upper part of Body Green. Belly Silver. Spots bluish white.