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adult specimen was taken with a "click'' (vide 

 Glaucous Gull) off the chain-pier at Brighton. 



Manx Sheaewatee, Puffi^nus Anglorum. An 

 unusual and accidental visitor to this part of the 

 British Channel. Has been met with occasionally 

 at some distance from the shore. 



FoEK -TAILED Peteel, Thcdassidroma Leachii. 

 Several examples of the fork-tailed petrel have 

 been taken on the coasts of Sussex: almost in- 

 variably after south-westerly storms. It has oc- 

 curred at Pagham, Lancing, Shoreham, Brighton, 

 Newhaven, Pevensey, and Hastings. On the 

 23rd of November, ] 848, a specimen was shot at 

 Littlehampton ; and on the 14th of December, 

 in the same year, an example was taken on the 

 beach near Rottingdean, and brought alive to 

 Mr. Swaysland. The tips of the wings were worn 

 off, probably in its vain efforts to scramble up the 

 perpendicular chalk-cliff after it had alighted on 

 the shore. Although in a dying state, it evinced 

 a considerable degree of coolness and self-posses- 

 sion after its capture, disregarding the presence 

 of the spectators who surrounded it, and occa- 

 sionally pluming its wings with much care and 

 attention. In performing this operation it opened 

 its beak very wide, and causing the root of the 

 quill to fall into the angles of the mouth, it drew 



