418 LARID^. 



did not preserve any record of the locality. The species cannot, there- 

 fore, from this individual, be included in the Irish catalogue, but there 

 can be little doubt, from the distribution of the bird, of its occasionally 

 visiting Ireland. A few individuals have been procured in different 

 parts of England ; but none as yet iu Scotland (Jard. Macg.). Mr. 

 Gould, in a most interesting communication made to the Zoological 

 Society of London, on the birds met with at sea during his voyage from 

 England to Van Diemen's Land, informs us that " immediately off the 

 Land's End, Wilson's storm-petrel was seen in abundance, and con- 

 tinued to accompany the ship throughout the Bay [of Biscay]."* 



Two of these petrels, taken by young friends on the voyage from 

 Liverpool to New York, in May 1846, were sent to me. They were 

 procured after the bank of Newfoundland had been passed, by cotton 

 threads being suspended over the stern of the ship, among which the 

 birds' wings became entangled as they flew. 



Bulwek's Petrel, TJialassidroma Bulioeri, Jard. and Selby. — One 

 individual only, obtained in Yorkshire in 1837, was known to have 

 occun-ed within the British Islands, at the date of publication of the 

 2nd edition of Mr. YarreU's work in 1845. A second, procured at 

 Scarborough in the spring of 1849, has since been recorded.! 



THE STOEM PETEEL. 



Mother Gary's Chicken. 



Thalassidroma pelagica, Linn, (sp.) 

 Procellaria „ „ 



Is to be met with at all seasons about some parts of the 

 coast, and breeds in several of the islets. 



To begin with its most northerly breeding-haunts : — in 1832, 

 we were informed that " these birds breed in great numbers in 

 Tory Island [off the north-west of Donegal], in the rabbit-holes, 



* Zool. Proc. 1839, auid ' Ann. Nat. Hist.,' vol. v. p. 139. 

 t E. T. Higgins, iu ' Zoologist ' for September 1849, p. 3569. 



