THE BIRDS OF DEVONSHIRE. 187 



STORM FETREh.—P roceUaria pelagka, Linu. 



An occasional visitant, chiefly noticed in boisterous 

 weather during winter. The Rev. M. A. Mathew 

 writes that this species nests upon Lundy Island, 

 where Mr. Rawson has met with the bird in the 

 month of June, Even on the South Coast, 

 stragglers sometimes occur during the breeding 

 season. Mr. Gatcombe records that a Herring Gull 

 knocked down a Storm Petrel in the Docks at 

 Plymouth, on the 22nd of June, 1883 ; as also, the 

 capture of several exhausted birds in Plymouth 

 Sound, on the 16th of August, 1876. In October 

 of the former year, he examined a very young 

 specimen, still shewing some of the nestling down, 

 though captured by a cat in a garden in the centre 

 of Plymouth. I have a specimen in my collection 

 which was shot at Topsham, October 16th, 1886. 



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