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landed in Ireland at all. Anyhow, there is the evidence of such a 
bird passing down the western shores of that country in 1853, and 
in 1858 another (storm-driven most probably) is found dead, 
inland, in one of the eastern counties of England. Here also 
may bo mentioned the curious hxct as regards these waifs of the 
ocean, that the only specimen of the Capped Petrel {Procellar ia 
hesitata) known to have occurred, not merely in Great Britain, 
but in Europe, was captured alive on a heath at Southacre, near 
Swaffham, in this county, in either March or April, 1850, and is 
preserved in the collection of the late Mr. E. C. Newcome, of 
Eeltwell,— a still gi-eater rarity even than the bird now under 
consideration. 
Wli ether the Valcntia specimen of Pitffimts ohmirus is still 
preserved, and where, I am unable to say ; but in 'Wattcr’s ‘ Birds 
of Ireland,’ published in 1853, this species is included on Yarrell’s 
authority ; and klr, Blackburn’s specimen is there stated to have 
been “ exhibited at a meeting of the Linnrean Society on the 7th 
of Juno ” (1853). 
As the third volume, with appendix, of Thompson’s ‘Xatural 
History of Ireland,’ comprising the Xatatores, or swimming birds, 
was published in 1851, the Husky Shearwater is, of course, not 
included; but in his account of the j\Ianx Shearwater (P. anglonim) 
(p. 413), he mentions the flock of birds of this class described by 
authors as flying all day over the waters of the Dardanelles and 
Bosphorus, variously described as P. anglorum and P. ohscurus 
but on referring this disputed point to :Mr. H. E. Strickland, wlm 
had shot one on the Bosphorus in March, 1836, that gentlemen 
stated that his bird was undoubtedly P. anglonnn, but he adds : 
“ As both this bird and P. obscurus are known to inhabit the 
Mediterranean, I have no doubt that hoik frequently migrate up 
and down the Bosphorus, and as their mode of flight and general 
appcai-ance are similar, they have indiscriminately obtained the 
name of oiseaux damnes."* 
* 1 he cause of this startling appellation is thus explained by Bishop 
i^tanley m his ‘Familiar History of Birds,’ where, in treating of rapiditv 
of flight (2nd edition, 1865, p. 81), he alludes to the restless actions of these 
birds on the Bosphorus (as described in Walsh’s ‘Constantinople’ and 
other travellers’ stories), and gives as a reason for the above term, the super- 
stitious belief of the Turks, who call them Armidau, that their bodies, from 
