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LARIDiE. 
THE EULMAE. 
Procellaria glacialis , Linn. 
Is extremely rare. 
It was first recorded by me as Irish in the following communica- 
tion, published in 1846, in the 18th volume of the f Annals of 
Natural History ’ (p. 312). 
“ Among ornithological notes made by the Eev. Joseph Stop- 
ford — a gentleman well acquainted with our native birds — and 
communicated to Dr. Harvey of Cork (by whom I have been 
favoured with them) — is one of a fulmar having been shot at 
Inchidoney Island, on the southern coast, in 1832, by Captain 
Hungerford. It was sent to the writer, by whom it was presented 
to Sir Charles Paget, then forming a collection of birds at Cove. 
In January 1846, Mr. T. W. Warren of Dublin kindly commu- 
nicated to me a detailed description of a bird shot on the North 
Strand, Dublin Bay, on the 1st of that month, mentioning at the 
same time that it was a species which had never before come under 
his notice, nor that of Mr. Glennon, taxidermist, through whose 
hands so many rare birds have passed within the last thirty years. 
The description marked it as a fulmar in adult plumage — I 
have since seen the specimen in Mr. Warren’s collection. 
A third instance of the fulmar’s occurrence has been made 
known to me : — one having been shot by the Eev. J. Stopford at 
Castle Ereke, county Cork, in the month of October 1845. 
The fulmar is very little known as a British bird, excepting at 
St. Kilda and the neighbouring islets of Borrera and Soa, where 
it breeds annually in multitudes, and is their most valuable pro- 
duct ; the eggs and birds themselves being used as food, and the 
oil for various purposes. Sir William Jardine is not aware of 
this bird’s occurrence on the shores of the mainland of Scot- 
land (‘Brit. Birds/ 1843); but a few individuals have been 
obtained at different parts of the coast of England and Wales 
(Yarrell). It inhabits the arctic regions of both hemispheres. 
