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Rare at Walton and Felixstowe (Kerry MS.). One killed on the Stour 

 in May 1820 (S. and W. u. s.) 



4. Captured in an exhausted state in 1SG7 in the garden of Mr. G. C. 

 Mason, who presented it to the Museum (Ipswich Museum; C. B.!). 

 Obtained off Felixstowe, in Mr. Kerry's Collection (C. B.!). Two caught 

 by Mr. Boyle on the lantern-glazing of the Light-house on Landguard 

 Fort; the last, a very fine bird, in Sept. 1883 (Boyle in litt.). 



West Suffolk. 



5. One shot at Redgrave about 1872 (G. H. Wilson MS.). One 

 picked up in a dying state near Eye in the end of Oct. 1869 (W. H. 

 Sewell in litt., who has it). 



6. One shot at Somerton in 1876 by the Rev. J. Ford (Cutmore 

 v.v.). Nayland about 1870 (L. Travis in litt). 



7. One picked up in a dying state on the Undley Hall Estate at 

 Lakenheath, on a piece of land called Long Border, October 22, 1869 

 (A. Wainwright v.v., who has it ; C. B.!). Elveden (Cambridge Museum, 

 skeleton). A fine specimen picked up in the street of Newmarket in an 

 exhausted state in Nov. 1855 (A. Fuller in Z. 5065); two found on the 

 Heath Jan. 13 1868 (Tearle MS. from Howlett). 



8. One picked up in a field at Barrow in 1865 (Bilson in Journ. Stiff. 

 Inst. 46). One picked up dead in Ickworth Park (Bilson MS.). 



Months. — January, May, September, October, November, 

 December. 



Districts. — All. 



Essentially a bird of the sea, but like other birds of the 

 same kind, it is not unfrequently found dead or dying far 

 inland. 



Leach's or Fork-Tailed Petrel, Procellaria Leachii 

 (Temminck). 



East Suffolk. 



1. One killed near Yarmouth about the middle of Oct. 1849 (J. H. 

 Gurney in Z. 2622); three observed between Yarmouth and Lowestoft 

 Nov. 28, 1849; one shot at Yarmouth a day or two after (J. 0. Harper 

 in Z. 2991); another June 1850 (J. B. P. Dennis MS. note, in Bury 

 Museum), and another July 6, 1867 (The Field oi July 13, quoted from 

 Mr. Stevenson in Dresser, B. of Eur. viii., 499), Mr. Stevenson remarks 

 that it is a strange date for such a bird; Mr. Gurney has one from 

 Yarmouth, date uncertain (Dresser B. of Eur. viii., 498). At Lowestoft, 

 once only; bought by J. F. Thirtle of a boy who had caught it alive 

 (Thirtle in litt.). 



3. One from Butley Creek ; it was riding among a number of teal 

 and other fowl in a heavy gale; preserved in the Seckford Reading Room, 



