252 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
ORDER TUBINARES. 
FAMILY PROCELLARIIDA. 
STORM PETREL. 
PROCELLARIA PELAGICA, Linnzeus. 
Heavy weather occasionally drives the Storm Petrel 
upon our coasts, and exhausted birds have been picked 
up in inland localities. Brockholes, who had one that 
was found dead near Puddington, stated that he had 
several times seen Storm Petrels on the Mersey near 
Birkenhead.t_ The bird has been observed at Ince, and 
in the winter of 1880-81 several were shot at New 
Brighton.2, On November 10th, 1885, a Storm Petrel 
struck the lantern of the Dee Lightship* There is 
an example from Walton in the Warrington Museum. 
In the winter of 1856 an exhausted bird was picked up 
near Stockport ;* and two are said to have been captured 
in the east of the county in March 1894.5 Mr. R. 
Nunnerley of Congleton has a Storm Petrel which he 
shot at Macclesfield some years ago. 
1 Brockholes, op. cit. p. 16. 
* Dobie, op. cit. p. 349. 
3 Report on the Migration of Birds in the Spring and Autumn of 
1885, p. 116. 
4 L. Grindon, Country Rambles, 2nd edition, p. 289. 1882. 
5 Manchester Guardian, March 20, 1894. 
