1 02 Meteorological Remarks for 1 832, at Carlisle. 



gular variety of the Lapwing was obtained near the canal re- 

 servoir on the 13th of March. This specimen, which was a 

 male, had the whole of the back and wing-coverts white, 

 interspersed here and there with a few feathers of the usual 

 colour. 



204. Razor Bill (Alca Torda). — A remarkably fine adult 

 specimen of this bird was killed on the river Eden, near the 

 village of Beaumont, on the 18th of April. Young Razor Bills 

 are occasionally met with in this district; but the old birds 

 are exceedingly rare. 



211. Northern Diver (Coli/mbus glacialis). — On the 13th of 

 December a young male of the year of this bird was shot on 

 the river Eden, within a very short distance of Carlisle, and 

 nearly upon the very same spot where a very similar Northern 

 Diver was killed on the 21st of January 1789*. 



219. Fork-tailed Petrel [Procellaria Bullockii). — The first 

 specimen of this bird that has been detected in this neigh- 

 bourhood, was found dead upon the coast near Cardurnock, 

 on the 17th of December. Not very many years ago the 

 Fork-tailed Petrel was considered one of the rarest of the 

 British birds, but within these last few years several have been 

 met with from time to time in various parts of the kingdom ; 

 and during the latter end of the year 1831 it appears to have 

 visited this country in very considerable numbers, and is stated 

 to have been obtained amongst others at the following places ; 

 viz. 



One found dead near Chipping Norton, Oxon ; two on the 

 banks of the river Severn, Gloucestershire; several in the 

 vicinity of London. 



One found dead not far from Rington, Hertfordshire ; four 

 found dead a short distance from York ; three or four in the 

 vicinity of Halifax. 



One shot on the river Tyne, near Newcastle ; two or three 

 in the neighbourhood of Plymouth ; one or two on the coast 

 of Cornwall ; one at Thirsk, Yorkshire. 



One contiguous to Hanbury, Worcestershire; one or two 

 near Hull, &c. &c.f. 



A Jew Meteorological Remarks on the Spring and Summer of 

 1832 at Carlisle. 

 In this neighbourhood we were favoured with some delight- 

 ful weather for the season, from the 27th to the 31st of March, 



* Hutchinson's History of Cumberland, vol. i. p. 21. tiiup 



f Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. v. pp. 282, 283, 380, 388, &c. &c. 



