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STORMY PETREL. 
J. Lister, postmaster of Barnsley, informs me; one on the 
beach at Bedcar, November 13th., 1851; another near Knares- 
borough, the latter end of October, 1846; one at Halifax, 
picked up in Broad Street in that town at about the same 
date; one was found dead in a field near Bipon, and sent 
to Bewick, by Lieutenant-Colonel Dalton, of Sleningford, of 
the 4th. Dragoons; one was observed swimming in the river 
in the town of Sheffield; it flew up andk settled on a house, 
and was then shot; some few individuals have occurred near 
Leeds; others near Huddersfield and Hebden Bridge; one at 
Keighley. In Norfolk, some of these birds are generally killed 
every winter; in the month of November, 1824, between two 
and three hundred were shot after severe gales; considerable 
flights have occasionally been seen on the coast; one bird 
flying over the Biver Ouse, near Lynn, on the 6th. of October, 
1852. In Cambridgeshire, a specimen was found at Whittles- 
ford, November 15th., 1852; one at Bottisham, October 6th., 
1855; another near Newmarket, October 17th., 1855. In 
Surrey, several specimens have been obtained near Godaiming; 
one on the banks of the Thames, near Bichmond, about the 
end of January, 1835. In Sussex, one was blown against the 
spire of the parish church of Hailsham, on the 26th. of 
February, 1848, and was picked up in the churchyard; one shot 
near Seaford, in October, 1856. One was found dead near 
Buckingham, as James Dalton, Esq., of Worcester College, 
Oxford, has informed me. One also in Northamptonshire, near 
Barton Segrave. In Derbyshire, it has occurred near Melbourne; 
and Bewick mentions that the late Marmaduke Tunstall, Esq., 
of Wycliffe, had one sent to him which was shot near Bake- 
well. In Oxfordshire, one near Oxford; another killed by a 
boy near Chipping Norton, in November, 1846; other two 
occurred there in the winter of 1846-7; two shot out of a 
flock of five, near Ensham, in December, 1837. In Cornwall, 
one was captured on the night of the 1st. of October, 1856, 
at the house of Mr. Hamilton, Wood Lawn, Falmouth; others 
near there, and at Carrick Boad, and about Marazion and 
Penzance, but rarely; many occurred near Looe in the autumn 
of 1852. In Somersetshire, one near Bath. Several were met 
with on the Hampshire coast during severe weather in Jan¬ 
uary, 1857. In March, 1825, one was shot from a barge in 
the Biver Thames, in the very centre of London, between 
Blackfriars’ Bridge and Westminster Bridge. In Warwickshire, 
three or four are noticed as having been caught in the streets 
