246 leach's petrel. 



warning given by the Petrels, and so abuse and dread the birds 

 who give it. 



O'er the deep ! — o'er the deep ! 

 Where the whale, and the shark, and the sword-fish sleep, 

 Out-flying the blast and the driving rain, 

 The Petrel telleth her tale in vain ; 

 For the mariner curseth the warning bird 

 Who bringeth the news of the storm unheard. 



Barry Cornwall. 



The only recorded instances of the occurrence of the Storm- 

 Petrel in Herefordshire, are — at Shobdon, where one was shot after 

 some very severe weather in the Channel, in December, 1867 ; and 

 at Carthage, in the parish of Foy, near Ross, a Storm-Petrel flew 

 against a window and was killed, in the year 1877. Local tradition 

 also states that another was taken many years since at Hurstley 

 Common, in the parish of Kinnersley. 



PROCELLARIA LEUCORRHOA— Leach's Petrel. 



Vel mare per medium fluctu suspensa tumenti 

 Ferret iter, celeres nee tingeret sequore plantas 



ViKGIL. 



She swept the seas, and as she skim'd along, 

 Her flying feet, imbath'd on billows hung. 



Brydets— Trans. 



The Fork-tailed Petrel is a very shy and rare bird. A 

 specimen was picked up dead, at Dewsall, by the Rev. A. W. 

 Horton, after the very severe snow-storm in the winter of 1879-80. 

 It was presented by Mr. Horton to the Hereford Museum, where 

 it can now be seen. 



[Genus — Oceanites.] 

 [Oceanites oceanicus — Wilson's Petrel.] 

 [Oceam'fes oceanica — Yarrell?[ 

 A rare visitor to the coasts of England. 



