1924. Rogi<:rs I-)RAMBKLL— iVo/t\s and Records of Irish lUrds. 107 



1. An adult female speeinien in full spring plumage is 

 now in the National Museum. Tlie following data were 

 written on the stand by Blake Knox : — " Rlack-throated 

 Diver 1268. Ad. ? spring. Dublin Bay. ^lay, 1874. 

 Restuffed, H. B. Knox." This specimen has not, I believe, 

 been previous^ recorded. 



2. An adult in winter plumage, but retaining much of 

 the black throat, is now in my collection. Blake Knox 

 records this bird in the Zoologist, 1868 (p. 1424). The stand 

 bears the following note in Blake Knox's handwriting. 

 "Black throated Diver. February nth, 1867. Salt Hill, 

 Dublin Bay. H. Blake Knox. This bird has retained a 

 large amount of the summer plumage and apparently made 

 but little autumn molt. 347." 



In 1866 and again in 1867 Blake Knox records in the 

 Zoologist obtaining a specimen of this species. I have not, 

 however, been able to discover the existence of these speci- 

 mens. 



Leach's Fork-tailed Petrel. Oceanadroma leitcorrJioa 

 Vieillot. 



A mounted specimen obtained in Co. Dublin in March, 

 1867, is now in my collection. 



In the Zoologist for 1868 (p. 1424) Blake Knox records 

 shooting a specimen, which was in compan}^ with others, 

 in Dublin Bay on Jan. loth. I have not discovered this 

 specimen . 



Sooty Shearwater. Puffinus griseus J. F. (imelin. 



A mounted specimen now in my collection bears the 

 data : — " Co. Mayo. October." Ussher, in the " Birds of 

 Ireland," only records two instances of this rare Shearwater 

 being obtained in Ireland, though seen more frequently. 

 So far as my knowledge goes, this bird has not been recorded 

 previously. 



The only British specimen, and the second European 

 of the American Black-billed Cuckoo {Coccyziis erythroph- 

 thahnus Wilson), which was obtained in Co. Antrim on 25th 

 September, 1871 (ZooL, 1872, p. 3022, and Zool. vSoc. Proc, 



