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it was on wing over the f Long Bridge :' the day was rather 
stormy. It was probably before this time that a storm petrel, 
taken about the river Lagan, ftear Lisburn, was sent to the 
Natural History Society of Belfast. At May's embankment, close 
to this town, one was found dead. In October 1832, after stormy 
weather, one endeavoured to alight in a small boat in Belfast Bay, 
but was frightened off; in making a second attempt, however, 
when the boat had proceeded about a mile farther, it was struck 
down with an oar, and secured alive. On the 5th of December, 
1833, a bird was shot at Lough Neagh : there had been a gale from 
the west and north-west for several days previously. In the be- 
ginning of December 1836, one was taken near Comber, county 
Down. In the ‘ Northern Whig' newspaper of September 15th, 
1838, it was stated, that — “ a stormy petrel was found on the 
23rd of August last, at Hockley, near Armagh; it was recently 
dead, and its plumage unruffled, but its condition poor. It may 
be presumed that it was carried by the violent gales of the 20th 
and 21st of August, to this unusual distance from the sea, and 
died of exhaustion." On October 30th, 1838, a bird, in a fresh 
state, was sent to Belfast from Toome, near to which place it was 
captured when flying above the river Bann. This species is said 
to be not unfrequently seen on Lough Neagh in stormy weather. 
Two storm petrels {T. pelagica ?) have been obtained at Brown 
Hall in the county of Carlow ; one after a storm in December 
1831 ; the other in November 1835 * A letter from Mr. B. 
Davis, jun., of Clonmel, dated August 14th, 1844, mentioned 
that he had lately received a living bird of the species, found on a 
mountain south of that town : — a previous letter (August 10th, 
1838) had announced his having just received two recent speci- 
mens ’which had flown on board a fishing-boat at Dungarvan, 
county Waterford, and were taken alive. Mr. B. Ball once ob- 
served storm petrels flying up and down a bog- drain, at about 
one hundred yards from the sea in the county of Cork, apparently 
searching for food. About the month of August this gentleman 
has often seen these birds in the bay at Youghal, and on one oc- 
Mr. T. W. Warren, 
