leach's petrel 443 



to be a female, was picked up on the beach close to 

 Littlestone, a small village 6 miles noi'th of Dungeness, 

 on December 5 (1895) last, at a time when strong north- 

 westerly gales were prevalent. It was taken the next 

 day to Mr. Bristow, at St. Leonards, and there I saw it 

 in the flesh. It was in poor condition, and clearly, in 

 appearance, a storm-beaten victim. This specimen was 

 subsequently exhibited by Mr. Howard Saunders at a 

 meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club, on April 15, 

 and the fact that it was found on the English Coast will 

 be of interest to ornithologists, not only because it adds 

 a fresh species to the British ProcellariidcB, but also on 

 account of the recent discovery by Mr. Ogilvie Grant of 

 the breeding of this species in the Canary seas, where it 

 had been previously confounded with Leach's Fork-tailed 

 Petrel." A second specimen was exhibited by Dr. N. F. 

 Ticehurst at a meeting of the British Ornithologists' 

 Club, held on November 21, 1906, "which had been 

 obtained near Hythe, in Kent, on November 8, 1906. 

 On dissection it proved to be a female. The bird was 

 shot while flitting along the shore in a tired manner 

 after the subsidence of the heavy south-west gale that 

 blew in the Channel from November 4 to 8." 



LEACH'S PETREL. 



Procellaria leucorrlioa, Vieillot. Noiiv. Diet., xxv., 

 p. 422 (1817). 



Fork-tailed Petrel. 



In 1844 the Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett mentions that 

 Dr. F. Plomley obtained a specimen of this rare bird. 



