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are only ' long-shore ' birds that can lie snug in 

 harbour, like their rivals the fishermen, in a gale of 

 wind, and suffer, like them, mainly from the inter- 

 ruption of their fishing. 



When the true ocean birds, like the petrels, are 

 found scattered inland, dead or dying, we may safely 

 infer that the weather from side to side of the 

 Atlantic has borne hardly, not only on the ships, but 

 on the friendly birds that love to follow them. 

 Numbers of these, of at least two different kinds, 

 one of which, as a rule, makes the Azores the eastern 

 limit of its ocean range, appeared on our coasts or 

 inland during the gales of October 1892. Wilson's 

 petrel was seen in Ireland, in County Down, and a 

 second is said to have been shot on Lough Erne. 

 The fork-tailed petrel, another ocean species, appeared 

 in far greater numbers. These birds were seen in 

 Donegal, and in Argyllshire, in Westmoreland, and 

 in the Cleveland district in Yorkshire. As the last 

 appeared after a strong north-westerly gale, it seems 

 that it must not only have come in from the Atlantic, 

 but have flown over England before falling exhausted 

 to the ground. They were also seen in Mayo, in 

 Tipperary, at Limerick, Dumfries and Northampton. 

 From an account given of these petrels in Argyllshire, 

 it is clear that they retained after their long journey 

 all that misplaced confidence in man which marks 



