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another (also an adult bird) about the sands and river. At length, 
on the 23rd of the same month, I shot it near Ballysokeery. It 
was a fine bird, with some of the dusky colour of the winter plumage 
about the head and neck. I shot an immature bird in the winter 
of either 1874 or 1875—I am not certain which, as I did not note 
it at the time. Again, during the past winter, I several times 
observed a Glaucous Gull on the river and estuary; and as I was 
passing the Moyne channel in my punt, on the 28th March last, 
it flew close by me, and I could not resist the temptation of 
bringing it down. It proved to be a beautiful adult bird, and the 
only trace of either winter or immature colours was the angle of 
the bill being horn-colour. 
Pomarine Skua, Lestris pomarinus.—On October 22nd, 1862, 
I saw several flocks passing to the southward on their autumnal 
migration, and obtained two birds. Both were nearly adult. As 
‘I have already given a detailed account of the occurrence of this 
and the following species in my notes of the autumnal migration 
of these two Skuas in ‘ The Zoologist’ for November, 1875, it will 
be unnecessary to repeat my observations here. 
Richardson’s Skua, Lestris Richardsoniit.—Also seen on their 
autumnal migration, and specimens obtained at various times. 
Long-tailed Skua, Lestris Buffonii.—Has only twice come under 
my notice. In the first instance, on October 24th, 1862, I fired at 
a small Skua near Scurmore, but, although badly hit, it got away 
over the sand-hills. The next day, when walking on the Ennis- 
crone sands, I found a dead Skua, which I brought home, and on 
skinning it I found gun-shot wounds, which proved it to have been 
the bird I had wounded the day before. On October 10th, 1867, 
Mr. N. Handy, of Ballintubber, near Killala, gave me a bird of 
this species that he had shot on his grouse mountain as it rose 
from the carcase of a dead horse upon which he said it was 
feeding. This specimen was nearly adult, but unfortunately had 
been kept too long, and was unfit for preservation. 
Fulmar Petrel, Procellaria glacialis.—This bird (so rare on 
the Irish coast that Thompson mentions only three specimens as 
having come under his notice) has on several occasions in winter 
been found on the Enniscrone sands, thrown up by the surf, and 
occasionally on the sands of other parts of the bay which open to 
the north. Except in one instance, the birds were dead but 
quite fresh. On the 24th January, 1857, I found a young Fulmar— 
