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one had been found dead on a mountain. About a fortnight afterwards a specimen was picked 

 up, dead, at Malahide, on the Dublin coast, and preserved for the Royal Dublin Society. On 

 the 11th of December, 1834, Mr. E. Ball wrote to me, from Dublin, that he had lately seen in 

 Mr. Glennon's possession some specimens which had been procured inland. In 1818, the year 

 in which the species was discovered by Mr. Bullock at St. Kilda, Mr. It. Ball obtained 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, Dublin 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 Clonmel, 

 on the 4th of December, 1835, after a succession of severe storms. About Waterford Fork-tailed 

 Petrels have been procured. 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 received, 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 Derry, though, as he remarks, ' the Storm-Petrel breeds on many parts 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 of 

 them were shot ; but they fell too far out in the water to be recovered, except in one instance. 

 The reply to my inquiry respecting 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 that was visible they appeared as numerous as from the 

 canal piers, whence they were particularly observed.' In June 1850 my correspondent saw one 

 off Kerry Head. On the 2nd of August, the same year, two were noticed on wing above the 

 canal at Tralee; and one of them was obtained." Professor Reinhardt (J. f. O. 1854, p. 442) 

 states that it has been met with on the coast of Greenland ; but I do not find it recorded from 

 Iceland, nor is it found at the Fseroes, except at sea near those islands in the summer. Mr. R. 

 Collett writes (Norg. Fugl. p. 76) that two specimens were shot on the fjord outside Christiania, 

 in Norway, in the autumn of 1847, and in January 1851 ; and there is a third Norwegian-killed 

 specimen in the Lund Museum. He thinks that it is probably not rare off the coast of Norway. 

 It does not appear to have occurred in Sweden or in Finland, though Dr. Palmen refers (Finl. 

 Fogl. p. 632) to a Petrel having been seen off the Finnish coast which may possibly have been 

 T. pelagica or this species. Professor Blasius (Ibis, 1862, p. 72) states that it has occurred at 

 Heligoland ; and it has once been recorded from Germany by Naumann, who states (Vog. 

 Deutschl. x. p. 580) that a specimen was obtained near Frankfort-on-the-Maine ; and Kjser- 

 bolling (Danm. Fugl. p. 321) says that one was shot at Copenhagen on the 25th of November, 

 1848, after a storm of several days' duration. Baron von Droste Hiilshoff writes (Vog. Bork. 

 p. 370) that one was killed near Leer, in East Friesland; and Professor Schlegel says that it has 

 been seen on the Dutch coast. Baron de Selys-Longchamps gives three instances of its occur- 

 rence in Belgium — one at Louvaine, one at Antwerp, and one at Namur ; and, according to 

 Degland and Gerbe, it has frequently been obtained on the northern and western coasts of France 

 after severe weather ; and it has been likewise met with on the portions of that country bordered 

 by the Mediterranean, several instances of its occurrence near Cette being recorded by Jaubert 



