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did not preserve any record of the locality. The species cannot, there- 
fore, from this individual, be included in the Irish catalogue, but there 
can be little doubt, from the distribution of the bird, of its occasionally 
visiting Ireland. A few individuals have been procured in different 
parts of England; but none as yet in Scotland (Jard. Macg.). Mr. 
Gould, in a most interesting communication made to the Zoological 
Society of London, on the birds met with at sea during his voyage from 
England to Yan Diemen’s Land, informs us that “ immediately off the 
Land’s End, Wilson’s storm-petrel was seen in abundance, and con- 
tinued to accompany the ship throughout the Bay [of Biscay].”* 
Two of these petrels, taken by young friends on the voyage from 
Liverpool to New York, in May 1846, were sent to me. They were 
procured after the bank of Newfoundland had been passed, by cotton 
threads being suspended over the stern of the ship, among which the 
birds’ wings became entangled as they flew. 
Bulwer’s Petrel, Thalassidroma Bulweri , Jard. and Selby. — One 
individual only, obtained in Yorkshire in 1837, was known to have 
occurred within the British Islands, at the date of publication of the 
2nd edition of Mr. Yarrell’s work in 1845. A second, procured at 
Scarborough in the spring of 1849, has since been recorded.! 
THE STORM PETREL. 
Mother Cary’s Chicken. 
Procellaria „ „ 
Is to be met with at all seasons about some parts of the 
coast, and breeds in several of the islets. 
To begin with its most northerly breeding-haunts - in 1832, 
we were informed that “ these birds breed in great numbers in 
Tory Island [off the north-west of Donegal], in the rabbit-holes, 
* Zool. Proc. 1839, and ‘Ann. Nat. Hist./ vol. v. p. 139. 
t E. T. Ifiggins, in ‘Zoologist’ for September 1849, p. 2569. 
