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it was on wing over tlie ' Long Bridge •/ the day was rather 

 stormy. It was probably before this time that a storm petrel, 

 taken about the river Lagan, near Lisburn, was sent to the 

 Natural History Society of Belfast. At May's embankment, close 

 to this town, one was found dead. In October 1832, after stormy 

 weather, one endeavoured to alight in a small boat in Belfast Bay, 

 but was frightened off; in making a second attempt, however, 

 when the boat had proceeded about a mile farther, it was struck 

 down with an oar, and secured alive. On the 5th of December, 

 1833, a bird was shot at Lough Neagh : there had been a gale from 

 the west and north-west for several days previously. In the be- 

 ginning of December 1836, one was taken near, Comber, county 

 Down. In the 'Northern Whig' newspaper of September 15th, 

 1838, it was stated, that — "a stormy petrel was found on the 

 23rd of August last, at Hockley, near Armagh ; it was recently 

 dead, and its plumage unruffled, but its condition poor. It may 

 be presumed that it was carried by the violent gales of the 20th 

 and 21st of August, to this unusual distance from the sea, and 

 died of exhaustion." On October 30th, 1838, a bird, in a fresh 

 state, was sent to BeKast from Toome, near to which place it was 

 captured when flying above the river Bann. This species is said 

 to be not unfrequently seen on Lough Neagh in stormy weather. 

 Two storm petrels {T. pelagica ?) have been obtained at Brown 

 Hall in the county of Carlow ; one after a storm in December 

 1831; the other in November 1835.^ A letter from Mr. E. 

 Davis, jun., of Clonmel, dated August 14th, 1844, mentioned 

 that he had lately received a living bird of the species, found on a 

 mountain south of that town : — a previous letter (August 10th, 

 1838) had announced his having just received two recent speci- 

 mens which had flown on board a fishing-boat at Dungarvan, 

 county Waterford, and were taken alive. Mr. R. Ball once ob- 

 served storm petrels flying up and down a bog- drain, at about 

 one hundred yards from the sea in the county of Cork, apparently^^ 

 searching for food. About the month of August this gentleman 

 has often seen these birds in the bay at Youghal, and on one oc- 

 * Mr. T. W. Wurreu. 



