382 REPORT—1840. 
that ‘‘ this beautiful gull has lately visited the western shores 
of Ireland,” (p. 35). Capt. James Ross, the author of this 
Appendix, has informed me that early in the year 1834 he 
derived that information from Joseph Sabine, Esq., and that 
he knows nothing of it further than what is published. For 
some years, however, I have had a note communicated by the 
late Thomas F. Neligan, Esq., of Tralee, who was well versed 
in British Birds, that “ in January 1835 he saw a gull in a 
field near that town, and four miles from the sea, which he 
was satisfied was the L. eburneus; he watched it for about 
twenty minutes, and was at first attracted by the ivory tint of 
its plumage and its black legs.” All the species of Cataractes 
do in autumn and winter, at least occasionally, visit the Irish 
coast. Puffinus cinereus has been obtained near Dungarvan, 
county Waterford, and is believed to breed there. P. An- 
glorum is known to me only as an occasional visitant ; it would 
seem to be more rare now in Ireland than formerly, as is the 
case in other of the British islands: in Harris’s Down and 
Smith’s Cork it is mentioned. Thal. pelagica is at all times to 
be met with on the coasts of Ireland washed by the Atlantic, 
and breeds on several of the islets ranging from north to 
south of the western coast. Thal. Bullocki (Proc. Leachii, 
Temm.) has been obtained on various occasions in all quarters 
of Ireland; it breeds on some of the western islets. 
Sterna Caspia and St. Anglica have ina very few instances 
been obtained in England. Larus atracilla, as a British bird, 
was known only to Montagu, who on two occasions met with 
it on the coast of Sussex. Proc. glacialis is, except in the 
North of Scotland, an occasional visitant to the shores of Great 
Britain; P. fuliginosa has but once been procured in Eng- 
land. 
In the preceding catalogue of Irish Birds, all the species 
noticed by Mr. Selby as indigenous to Great Britain will be 
found—either as such, or as visitants—except the following: 
Melizophilus provincialis, Parus cristatus, Emberiza Cirlus, 
Passer montanus, Picus viridis*, Sitta europea, Columba 
Gnas, Lagopus mutus. With these may be mentioned three 
more which are said to have been found in Ireland, but are not 
now indigenuus—Picus minor, Tetrao Tetrix, Otis tarda. 
* T have been assured that this bird is found in some localities in Ireland, 
but have not scen specimens. 
