BIRDS. 85 
Order 6. TUBINARES. 
Fam. PROCELLARIIDA. 
358. Procellaria pelagica Z. Storm-Petrel. 
Winter visitant, not uncommon on the coast during severe 
weather, which drives them in from the open sea, and after 
gales of unusual severity they are often picked up dead or 
exhausted on the shores and in far inland localities. 
359. Procellaria leucorrhoa Vier//. Leach’s Petrel. 
Casual visitant in winter, of rare occurrence. In the winter 
of 1831-2 many examples occurred far inland; four were 
picked up near York, one or two near Hull, one at Thirsk, 
and three or four near Halifax. Since then they have 
appeared several times, also far inland; one at Doncaster 
in 1837, one at Kirkhammerton in 1850-1, and one at 
Beverley in the autumn of 1854. 
360. Oceanites oceanicus (Xwh/). Wilson’s Petrel. 
Accidental visitant from the Atlantic, of extremely rare 
occurrence. 
Halifax, one shot at Southowram, late in Nov., 1874; now in 
the collection of Mr. Christopher Ward, to whom it was 
brought in the flesh (Ward, MS.). 
361. Puffinus anglorum (Zzemm.). Manx Shearwater. 
Periodical visitant, in spring and autumn, especially the latter 
season, when it is not uncommon off the coast, particularly 
at Flamborough. 
362. Puffinus griseus (Gm.). Sooty Shearwater. 
Casual visitant, of rare occurrence, in the winter. Mr. 
Dresser (Birds of Europe, parts 61 and 62, Aug., 1877) 
remarks on this species that it ‘is difficult to discriminate 
the records of its occurrence in Great Britain, as it has so 
very generally been confused with P. major, from which it 
is clearly distinct.’ Gould (Birds of Europe) and Yarrell 
both figured the present species as the Great Shearwater, 
and the former remarks (B. of G. Brit.,vol. 5) ‘that out of fifty 
