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received in a fresh state, from the county of Tipperary, by Dr. R. 
Graves, in whose collection I subsequently saw them : one had been 
found dead on a mountain. About a fortnight afterwards a speci- 
men was picked up, dead, at Malahide, on the Dublin coast ; — and 
preserved for the Royal Dublin Society.* On the 11th of De- 
cember, 1834, Mr. R. 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. R. Ball ob- 
tained 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 Clon- 
mel, on the 4th of December, 1835, after a succession of severe 
storms. t About Waterford fork-tailed petrels have been pro- 
cured. J 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 re- 
ceived, 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 Kerry, though, as 
he remarks, “ the storm petrel breeds on many 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 oi 
them were shot, but they fell too far out in the water to be re- 
covered, except in one instance. The reply to my inquiry respect- 
ing 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 
* These three are perhaps the individuals noticed by the Rev. T. Knox in Lou- 
don’s ‘ Magazine of Natural History,’ vol. v. p. 576 ; although the localities men- 
tioned do not accord. 
f Mr. R. Davis, jun. 
| Dr. R. Burkitt. 
