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THE BIRDS OF ESSEX. 



Order TUBINARES. 



Family PROCELLARIID^. 



Storm-Petrel : Procellaria pelagica. 



Frequents the open seas around the United Kingdom, and breeds 

 on various islands off the west coasts of England, Scotland, Wales 



and Ireland, but is 

 never met with in Essex, 

 except when blown in- 

 land by severe storms. 



Lewin says (4. vii. 40) : 

 " On land it is seldom seen, 

 though one has been shot at 

 AVallhamstow in Essex," 

 Donovan, doubtless alluding 

 to the same specimen, says 

 (5. ^i. PI. cxxxix) : " We 

 possess one specimen, for- 

 merly in the Leverian Col- 

 lection, which is affirmed to 

 have been shot at Waltham- 

 stow in Essex," Sheppard 

 and Whitear write (9, 54) : 

 " The oil issued from the 

 nostrils of one which we killed on the Stour, May 29th, 1820." Yarrell says 

 {Zool. Joiirn. ii. 24.) : — " More than a dozen Storm-Petrels were procured on the 

 eastern coast, principally during the remarkabl}' windy weather that occurred 

 this month [Nov., 1824]. Mr. Clarke refers (24) to a specimen in the possession 

 of the Rev. Robert Wilkes, of Lofts Hall, which was picked up many years ago at 

 Elmdon, and to another found at Audley End in 1836. At Harwich, " some are 

 seen every winter. On Oct. 29th, 1880, several were seen in the harbour there, and 

 one was picked up dead, probably exhausted by a recent storm" (Kerry — 40. v. 

 26). Mr. Hope says it is seen in winter time in, Harwich Harbour and up the 

 Orwell. On Nov. 6th, 1880, a dozen were observed round the Galloper Light 

 Vessel (42). One was observed off Languard Point on -Oct. nth, 1882, and 

 another at the Galloper L. V., Oct. 2nd, 1884 (42. iv. and vi). One was 

 caught at the Languard L.H. on Oct. 25, 1885 ; several at the Kentish Knock 

 L.V. on Nov. nth, 1885 ; one at the Swin Middle L.V on Nov. roth, 1887 ; and 

 another on the 14th ; and another on the lantern of Languard L.H, on Dec. 24th, 

 1887 (42. vii, and ix.). At Marsh House, Tillingham, Mr. Robert Page has a 

 specimen caught in his decoy there. 



STORM I'ETREL, 



