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terously pulled itself up by tlie hooked bill, until the claws got on 
the edge. When handled it bit severely.” 
The second specimen was received alive on the 19th of Septem- 
ber, 1839, by Mr. Davis, who informed me that — “it was captured 
one or two miles outside Dungarvan by a person fishing for hake 
\Merlucius vulgaris] with a hook and line, it having taken his 
bait. I kept it alive for about a week, but not having a suitable 
place for it, had the bird killed and set up. It was more lively 
than the former one — which, so far as can be recollected, it re- 
sembled in every respect as to plumage — and ran along with the 
breast about an inch and a half from the ground. Having on one 
occasion placed this bird on a roof, it seemed to be more at ease 
on the inclined plane afforded by that situation than on a flat 
surface ; and mounted rapidly to the top, though on reaching the 
edge, no attempt at flight was made, and it fell heavily to the 
ground. It rarely stirred at all during the day, but kept itself as 
much out of view as possible, and if the body could not be con- 
cealed would endeavour to hide its head.” On visiting Dun- 
garvan in the summer of 1840 Mr. Davis learned that — “ this 
species is never met with near the shore, but only far out, and is 
occasionally taken on the hook and line employed in hake-fishing. 
The fishermen sometimes keep them for weeks about their houses, 
and in some instances the birds have become tame : they never 
attempt to fly. A man had one a few days before I went there, 
but killed it with dogs on a piece of water. I could not hear of 
this species having ever been shot, or otherwise taken than on a 
hook. It is commonly known by the name of hagdown .”* The 
Manx shearwater seems to be unknown there. Both Mr. Davis's 
birds have, through his kind attention, come under my examina- 
tion. This gentleman remarks on the figures of P. major in Mr. 
Yarrell's ' British Birds/ that judging from his two living ones 
the attitude is incorrect, and if the bird could assume it at all 
(which he doubts) it would be impossible for it to remain in the 
position for a second of time. 
Mr. B. Ball, when dredging off Bundoran, on the west coast 
* It is called hacklolt at the Sciliy Islands (Mr, Mitchell) . 
