444 THE BIRDS OF KENT 



Captain H. W. Hadfield, writing from Tonbridge on 

 January 6, 1857, says : " I have lately seen in this town 

 a very fair specimen of this Petrel, which was, I am 

 informed, found dead some three or four years since at 

 Peckham in this neighbourhood." 



In 1868 Mr. J. Hunter, of Faversham, in Kent, says : 

 " A specimen of the Fork-tailed Petrel was shot near 

 here on October 3." 



A male specimen in the Maidstone Museum was picked 

 up alive in Mill Street, in that town, on November 27, 

 1881. 



Genus PUFFINUS, Brisson. 



GEEAT SHEAEWATEE. 



Puffinus major, Faber. Prodr. isl. Oru., p. 56 

 (1822). 



This Shearwater is only an occasional visitor to the 

 coast of Kent. 



In 1891 Mr. J. H. Gurney records that " on October 29, 

 1890, an adult male Great Shearwater {Piiffinus major) 

 was found alive by a boy on the rocks at Ramsgate. 

 This bird was taken to Mr. Softley, who, by feeding it 

 on fish, kept it alive until May 9 (more than six months), 

 hoping it would lay an egg ; a futile hope, as it proved to 

 be a male." 



