174 THE BIEDS OF OXFOEDSHIEE. 



THE FORK-TAILED PETREL. 



Cymochorea leucorrhoa. 



The Fork-tailed, or Leact's, Petrel, has wandered to this 

 county on many occasions, being blown inland by storms. 

 The following- instances are on record : — One found dead in 

 a turnip-field near Chipping Norton, i6th December, 1831 

 (Lozidoti's 3Iagazine of Natural History, 1H32, p. 282). One 

 found dead, in February, 1838, at Weston-on-the-Green, 

 where others have been picked up in a similar condition; 

 one shot at Henley in 1847 [Zoologist, p. 2625). One 

 found dead in Blenheim Park, in the winter of 1850-1, 

 preserved in the Ashmolean Museum [Uj., p. 3 118). One 

 at the same place, November, 1859 [lb., p. 6780). One 

 picked up dead at Lower Heyford, early in December, 1881 ; 

 many of these bii'ds visited the English coast about that time, 

 and this example was probably blown inland by the storm 

 which occurred at the end of November. As will be observed, 

 most of the Petrels procured here had perished from ex- 

 haustion. 



A specimen procured at Standlake, some twenty years ago, 

 is preserved at Burford ; and there was an example in the 

 collection of the late Mr. W. Phillips, of Salford, to which 

 the marginal note. Chipping Norton Common, 1858, in a 

 marked printed list of British Birds with the collection, 

 probably had reference. 



THE STORM PETREL. 



Procellaria pelagica. 

 The Storm Petrel is a wanderer, driven inland by bad 

 weather. Lewin, at the end of the last centviry, mentions 

 the occurrence of one at Oxford [Birds of Great Britain). 

 Two were shot, from a little party of five, at Eynsham, in 

 December, 1837, and another was procured at Chipping 

 Norton, in November, 1846 [Zoologist, 2625). The Rev. 



