332 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
1 should say in the first year’s plumage—thrown up on the Moy- 
view shore, the tide having brought it in from the open bay. It 
was in such good condition that I sent it to my friend Dr. Harvey, 
of Cork, for his fine collection of native birds. For some days 
previously to the 24th October, 1862, there was a succession of 
south and south-westerly gales, but on the night of the 23rd the 
wind changed to the north and blew very heavily. This induced 
me to visit Enniscrone on the 24th, to look out for any storm- 
driven birds that might have come ashore. In the course of my 
search | found several dead Puffins (both adults and young of 
the year), and picked up one alive, but so exhausted that it died 
shortly afterwards. While engaged in examining the Puffin, my 
attention was attracted by a Great Black-backed Gull dragging 
and trying to tear something that was lying partly in the water and 
had just been washed ashore by the surf. On reaching the spot, 
I picked up an adult Fulmar, in a most wretched condition, com- 
pletely water-soaked and so utterly worn ont as to be unable to 
stand. It died shortly after | put it into my bag. A few hundred 
yards farther off 1 shortly afterwards saw the same gull, at the 
edge of the water, watching something he apparently feared to 
attack. I at once hastened to the spot, and found a second 
Fulmar just come ashore, and in as miserable a state as the first, 
except that it was not quite so weak, being able to walk a little 
and to use its powerful beak in self-defence against the attacks 
of the gull. On November 3rd, 1865, 1 found another specimen, 
quite fresh, on the sands of Enniscrone, but unfortunately the 
gulls had got at it before me and rendered it quite useless as 
a specimen. On the 38rd October, 1867, I also found a Fulmar 
cast upon the same part of the shore, and so fresh and uninjured 
that I sent it to the Dublin Society’s Museum; and on the 2lst 
October, 1868, 1 got another at the same place, which | sent 
to the Belfast Museum. In 1870, on the 4th March, I found the 
remains of one destroyed by gulls on the Bartragh sands; and 
sometime during the winter of 1872 or 1873, I got a fine bird on 
the Enniscrone sands, which I have now set up for myself. I have 
no doubt that specimens of the Fulmar would be found every year 
on the Enniscrone shore, and also of other migratory sea-birds, 
if a careful search was made during the months of October and 
November, and up to the middle of December, especially after 
heavy gales. 
