FORK-TAILED PETREL. 253 
FORK-TAILED PETREL. 
OcEANODROMA LEUCORRHOA (Vieillot). 
The Fork-tailed Petrel has occurred several times in 
Cheshire after heavy weather in winter. One was found 
dead in a ploughed field near Wilmslow about the year 
1824.1. In the stormy winter of 1886-87, when Fork- 
tailed Petrels were recorded from inland localities in 
different parts of England, one was picked up near the 
Northgate Station, Chester, on December 8th, and 
another was shot at Queensferry on January 10th.2 An 
exhausted bird was picked up in Eccleston Meadows, 
near Chester, on October 10th, 1892;2 and a few 
days later a dead bird was found near Macclesfield.* 
There is an example in the Warrington Museum, 
obtained at Latchford in 1897. During the third week 
in September 1899, a number of storm-driven Fork- 
tailed Petrels were obtained in West Cheshire. Mr. R. 
Newstead saw three and heard of two others in the 
neighbourhood of Chester, whilst a sixth was shot 
on Frodsham Marsh. This last bird was erroneously 
reported as a Storm Petrel in the Manchester Guardian 
of September 25th, 1899. 
1 J. Blackwall, Loudon’s Magazine of Natural History, vol. ii. 
p- 275. 1829. 
2 Dobie, op. cit. p. 349. 
3 N. Neave, Natural History Journal, vol. xvii. No. 145, p. 16. 
1893. 
