PETRELS 491 



British Islands. In the North Atlantic common along the 

 American coasts, visiting the West Indies and Mexico. 



Two, English Channel : Jenyns, " Man. Brit. Vert. An.," 



p. 286 ; Yarrell, " Hist. Brit. Birds," 3rd ed., vol. iii. 



p. 668. 

 Seen in abundance oft' the Land's End, May 1838: Gould, 



Froc. Zool. Soc, 1839, p. 139. 

 One, Polperro, Cornwall, Nov. 1838: Couch, Trans. Linn. 



Soc, vol. xviii. p. 688 ; " Cornish Fauna," ii. p. 70 ; 



Rodd, "Birds of Cornwall," p. 185. 

 One, Norfolk, spring 1839 : Yarrell (fide Buxton), op. cit. 



but considered doubtful by Stevenson. 

 One, Cumberland: Yarrell [fide Heysham), op. cif. 

 One said to have been killed on the Irish coast, August 



1840: Thompson, ''Nat. Hist. Irel. (Birds)," vol. iii. 



p. 417; Ussher, "Birds of Ireland," p. 388. 

 One, Sussex: Bond, ZooL, 1843, p. 148 ; Yarrell, op. cit. 

 One on the Avon, Sutton Benger, Wilts, Nov. 2, 1849 : 



Marsh, Zool, 1859, p. 6492. 

 One, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, Nov. 1863 : Delme Rad- 



cliffe. Field, Nov. 28, 1863 ; Zool., 1864, p. 8892. 

 One near Aldeburgh, Suffolk, "some years since" (1871): 



Hele, "Notes about Aldeburgh," p. 176. In the pos- 

 session of Col. Thelluson. 

 One near Halifax, Yorkshire, Nov. 1874: Eaoie Clarke, 



"Handbook Yorks. Vert.," p. 85. In the collection of 



Mr. Christopher Ward. 

 One picked up dead at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, autumn 



1888: Gurney, Zool., 1889, p. 150. 

 One shot on Lough Erne, co. Fermanagh, Oct. 1, 1891 : 



Wilhams, Zool, 1891, p. 428. 

 One picked up alive, Dunmurry, co. Antrim, Oct. 2, 1891 : 



Patterson, Field, Oct. 10, 1891 ; Zool., 1891, p. 427. 

 One caught in a net in Jura after a gale, Oct. 1, 1891 : 



H. Evans, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist, 1892, p. 18. The first 



known instance of its occurrence in Scotland. 



