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"1871. One, on good authority [the late E. L. 

 King], said to have been seen at Lynn, in February." 



To these may be added one mentioned in Salmon's 

 Diary, in a note copied from the "Norfolk Chronicle" 

 for the 31st January, 1835, said to have been killed by 

 Rev. George Hogg " while skimming over the waves 

 near Holme," about the 25th January. Mr. Stevenson 

 records one " said to have been obtained at Yarmouth " 

 in April, 1876. One was seen on Durrant's stall, at 

 Yarmouth, on the 18th November, 1883 ; and, in the 

 autumn of the same year, Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., 

 had a fork-tailed petrel's wing sent him by the master 

 of the Happisburgh floating light. 



The above is a list of all the recorded occurrences of 

 this bird in Norfolk with which I am acquainted ; it has 

 generally been met with under the same circumstances, 

 and frequently associated with the storm petrel, and 

 like it has probably always been an involuntary visitor. 



PROCELLARIA PELAGICA, Linnaeus. 

 STORM PETREL. 



This pretty little wanderer may be found out at sea 

 off the Norfolk coast every autumn and early winter, 

 and is frequently observed from the light vessels. It is 

 only after severe weather that it frequents the estuaries 

 and harbours, and is sometimes, as will be seen, found 

 far inland, dead or dying from exhaustion. 



Hunt, in his "British Ornithology" (1822), states 

 that Mr. Lombe, " kept a stormy petrel alive for a few 

 days, and that in removing itself from one part of its 

 place of confinement to another, it made use of its beak, 

 in a manner similar to the parrot." (Of. also fulmar, 

 p. 360). In his " List " the same author says, " For the 

 last two years [1826 and 1827?] this bird has been 

 numerous off the Yarmouth coast, where numbers have 

 been taken. Mr. J. Harvey, of that town, had, at one 

 time, upwards of fifty specimens. In the winter before 

 the last (1826) a poor man caught one of these birds 

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