STOEM PETREL — LITTLE AUK. 175 



F. O. Morris mentions the oecurrenee of three near Chipping 

 Norton [Jlistory of Br Huh Birds, vol. viii), and examples have 

 been obtained in recent years at Heading-ton, and on the Isis 

 above Oxford, where one flew into Bossom^s barge in bad 

 weather (H. A. Macpherson, MS.). The Storm Petrel has 

 also occurred in the north of the county, near Banbury. 



THE RAZOR-BILL. 



Alca iorda. 



The Razor-bill is an accidental wanderer from the coast. 

 It has been procured on the Isis at Oxford in April, 1853 [Zoo- 

 logist, p. 3946), on Clattercote Reservoir in December, 1878, 

 and at Nuneham (E. W. Harcourt, MS.). 



THE COMMON GUILLEMOT. 



Uria t)-oiIe. 



The Common Guillemot is an accidental wanderer from the 

 coast. An example w^as shot on the Isis at Sandford in 

 October, 1840 {Zoologist., p. 3623), and another was caught on 

 a night-line set in the Cherwell, near Somerton, some years 

 ago. 



THE LITTLE AUK. '; t) -^ 



Mergidus (die. 



The Little Auk is an accidental wanderer from the coast, 

 generally after bad weather. The ]\Iessrs. Matthews record 

 that several examples have been caught alive, the last of them 

 being captured, in an exhausted condition, in Christ Church 

 Meadow, in November, 1845 [Zoologist, p. 2623). Another 

 was taken at Salford in December, 1847 (Morris, Eistonj of 

 British Birds, vol. vii), and Messrs. H. A. Macpherson and 

 J. R. Earle found in a local collection belonging to a rat- 

 catcher, at Clifton Hampden, a specimen of the Little Auk, 

 shot in 1872. 



