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LAEIDJE. 
(( Mr. Glennon, bird- preserver, Dublin, states that a specimen 
sent to him for preservation, was procured on the 7th in one of 
the streets of the town of Cavan, and that on the same day another 
was found at Brown Hall, county Carlow. Mr. C. Carleton I/Es- 
trange informed me, that when woodcock-shooting in the planta- 
tions at Colonel Eniry*s demesne some miles from the town of 
Cavan, about a week after the 7 th of January, he found two 
petrels which had evidently been dead for a few days, or from 
about the time of the hurricane : they were too much injured by 
exposure to the weather to be preserved. Mr. 14. Ball was sent 
a Thai, pelagica from Kells, county of Meath, where it was pro- 
cured on the 7 th — on which day a petrel, picked up near Mullin- 
ger, county of Westmeath, was sent to a gentleman of my ac- 
quaintance in Dublin ; and on this day also I have been informed 
that one was found dead near the town of Wicklow. Of all these 
specimens I have seen but the two noticed as T. pelagica ; of two 
or three others I could not obtain information sufficiently satis- 
factory to enable me to judge whether they were of this or the 
fork-tailed species (Thai. Leachii ) ; but the remainder were de- 
scribed in such a manner as to leave no doubt on my mind as to 
their being the T. pelagica. Of the petrels that I had before 
seen, and which were obtained at various times and places through- 
out Ireland, about as many were of the T. Leachii as of the other, 
considered the more common species. 
“ There have been different conjectures as to the cause of the 
petrels* appearance on land, but in this instance, when more 
of them were found scattered over the country than on any 
previous occasion, immediately after the greatest hurricane that 
has, within the memory of the oldest persons, swept over Ireland, 
we are compelled to attribute their presence to its agency alone. 
Erom several of these birds having been found in the extreme 
east, as well as the more central portion of Ireland, it would 
seem, from the fact of the hurricane ranging from the north- 
west to the south-west, that some of them had been blown 
from the Atlantic, almost entirely across the island, a circum- 
stance which, strange as it may appear, is less singular than 
