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received in a fresh state, from the county of Tipperary, by Dr. R. 

 Graves, in whose collection I subsequently saw them : one had been 

 found dead on a mountain. About a fortnight afterwards a speci- 

 men was picked up, dead, at Malahide, on the Dublin coast ; — and 

 preserved for the Royal DiibKn Society.* On the 11th of De- 

 cember, 1834, Mr. R. Ball wrote to me from Dublin, that he had 

 lately seen in Mr. Glennon^s possession son^.e specimens which had 

 been procured inland. In 1818, the year in which the species 

 was discovered by Mr. Bullock at St. Kilda, Mr. R. Ball ob- 

 tained one of these birds in the county of Cork : it was found 

 in the month of September on a mountain, about eight or ten 

 miles from the sea. One was shot at Clontarf, DubHn Bay, on 

 the 2nd of December, 1835, and in December 1839 another was 

 found dead near Bray. One of these petrels was picked up dead, 

 on the lawn at New Chapel Glebe, about four miles from Clon- 

 mel, on the 4th of December, 1835, after a succession of severe 

 storms. t About Waterford fork-tailed petrels have been pro- 

 cured. J In December 1845, Mr. R. Chute obtained one on the 

 south-west of the island, and on the 20th of November, 1849, 

 he kindly sent me one of two specimens he had just then re- 

 ceived, remarking that for the preceding ten days many had been 

 seen about Tralee. This gentleman is not aware of any breeding- 

 haunt of the fork-tailed petrel on the coast of Kerry, though, as 

 he remarks, "the storm petrel breeds on many of the islands of 

 our coast." In reference to the last date, I was afterwards 

 informed that one day in November 1849 fork -tailed petrels were 

 flying " as numerous as swallows," above Tralee Bay. Some ol 

 them were shot, but they fell too far out in the water to be re- 

 covered, except in one instance. The reply to my inquiry respect- 

 ing the probable number seen, was, that " they kept apart from 

 each other, passed and repassed continually ; but not more than 

 eight or ten would be seen at once. Near every part of the shore 



* These three are perhaps the individuals noticed by the Rev. T. Knox in Lou- 

 don's ' Magazine of Natural History,' vol. v. p. 576 ; although the localities men- 

 tioned do not accord. 



t Mr. R. Davis, jun. + Dr. R. Burkitt. 



