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tained in the neighbourhood of Lewes. One, a 
female, weighed 7 ozs. It was obtained 10th Oct., 
1867. The remaining specimen (the one on the 
extreme left) was obtained near Oxford, October, 
1867, where it was purchased by the late Mr. J. R. 
Griffith. It was presented by the late Mrs. Griffith, 
in 1893. 
FORK-TAILED PETREL. 
Case 320. 
These birds are resident in St Kilda and one or 
two other islands of the Outer Hebrides; they are 
occasionally obtained in stormy weather on our 
southern coasts. Two birds are stuffed in a flying 
position, The one nearest the front of the case was 
found lying dead under telegraph wires at Creagorry, 
Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, November 5th, 1894, 
and was presented by Mr. William Bain, of that 
place. The other flying bird, a female, was picked 
up in Arundel during a gale, on Nov. 20th, 1898, 
and brought to Mr, P. E. Coombe who presented it in 
1803. Two others are perching on the stones of 
which the old wall is built. | One of these was shot 
at Loch Melford, Argyleshire, September 28th, 1891 
by Mr. A. D. Laurie, who presented it to the Museum. 
The fourth (with its head in the hole) was picked up 
dead* on the Brunswick Lawns, Brighton, in the 
winter about 1870 and was purchased in 1895. 
The specimen of Helix Caperata is from Ben- 
becula and those of Bulimus Acutus are from close 
to Flora Macdonald’s birthplace in South Uist. 
An adult bird was caught in a lark net near the 
Cement Works, Beeding, Sussex, September i7th, 
1907, in bright, calm, weather. It seems extra- 
ordinary that such a sea-loving bird should then have 
been found some three miles inland. 
* As to the way in which this species flies in to land during severe 
gales, and is then attracted to puddles of water (where pre- 
sumably light is reflected), see Dawson’s Ornithological 
Miscellany, Vol. I1., p. 108. 
