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may alike feel the force of their logic; they draw themselves up to their 
fullest height, outwardly calm and self-contained, pausing in the discourse 
to note its effect upon the audience, and collect their wits for the next 
rhetorical flourish. And no distant likeness between these frothy orators 
and others is found in the celerity with which they subside and seek their 
holes on the slightest intimation of danger.” 
Thus have we wandered on from one pleasant extract to another, 
until we fear we have more than occupied our allotted space; and 
still are there many more passages we should like to present to 
the reader. We have not touched on the great family of raptorial 
birds, save a notice or two upon the owls, some of its humblest 
members; and many of the larger American hawks are interesting 
to us from the fact that individuals have strayed to the British 
Islands. It would appear that there is an American condor which 
as yet has not come into the hands of any naturalist for scientific 
description. This is the Queleli of the Indians, a bird regarded 
by them with the utmost veneration, concerning which they have 
strange legends. The people of Sonora declare that it possesses 
four wings. \n Mr. Boyle’s amusing tales of adventure in America, 
“Camp Notes,’ we read of the mysterious Queleli having been seen 
in Arizona. It swept on its great wings low above the privileged 
spectator. The bird is described as of great size, and of an almost 
pure white plumage. Inhabiting those dangerous tracts of country 
still infested by savage Indian tribes, some time may still pass 
before a specimen of it be procured. But there is no doubt that 
an undescribed condor or vulture exists to-day among the mountain 
districts which are the homes of the Apaches. 
Murray A. MatTHew. 
Bishop’s Lydeard, August 16, 1876. 
Occurrence of the Whitesided Dolphin on the Irish Coast—It is with 
great pleasure that I am able to record an interesting addition to our Irish 
Fauna, through the occurrence of a fine specimen of this rare cetacean (the 
Delphinus acutus of J. E. Gray), which was washed ashore here dead, but 
in a perfectly fresh state, on the 19th of July, and measured about seven 
feet six inches, of which one foot was tail, and the depth of this appendage 
was twenty-three inches. As usual in such cases, I did not hear of the 
incoming of this individual until too late; when I got to the scene of action 
the idle part of the population had mutilated the remains, one man having 
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