442 THE BIRDS OF KENT 



Family PROCELLARIID^, 



Genus PROCELLARIA, Linnaeus. 

 STOEM-PETEEL. 



Procellaria peJagica, Linnaeus. ^.N., i., p. 212 



(17GG). 



Storm Finch. 



This curious hfctle bird is often beaten on to the coast 

 of Kent during heavy weather. Boys mentions an in- 

 stance at Margate in 1792. 



The Kev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, in 1844, says : " These 

 ill-omened birds are sometimes to be seen on the Kentish 

 coast in stormy weather. I once observed several 

 from the pier at Dover. The ' Mother Carey's Chickens,* 

 or ' Spencies,' as they are cahed by sailors, are interesting 

 birds, not only from the superstition which attaches to 

 them, of causing storms and shipwrecks, but also from 

 their swiftness of flight, and the apparent ease with 

 which they fly immense distances." 



Mr. W. Prentis mentions that a shepherd boy picked 

 up a Stormy Petrel alive near Eainham. 



EIDGWAY'S PETEEL. 



ProcellariacryiJtoleucura (Eidgway). Proc. U. S, 

 Nat Mus., iv., p. 337 (188-2). 



The particulars respecting this bird, which was found 

 in Kent, are taken from Captain Boyd Alexander's notes 

 in the Zoologist (1896, pp. 167-08) : " An example of 

 Oceanodrovia crijptolcucura, which proved, on dissection, 



