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Leach's Fork-tailed Petrel : Procellaria leucorrhoa. 



A rare straggler to our coast during stormy weather, after which 

 it is sometimes blown far inland. It breeds on St. Kilda and perhaps 

 elsewhere in the United Kingdom. 



One was taken alive on the Essex coast in Nov., 1823, and brought into the 

 London market, where it was purchased by Mr. Yarrell, but it died the same day 

 {Zoological Journal^ ii. 25 .and iii. 495). Hoy records one (29. Nov. g, 1867) 

 picked up in an exhausted state near Coggeshall in the winter of 1827-28. 

 Yarrell mentions (14. iii. 521) the occurrence of "one near Saffron Walden " 

 previous to 1843. Henry Doubleday says (10) : — " On one stormy day [about 

 Jan. 20th, 1837] a very fine specimen oiThalassidromaj£achii\\2iS picked up by a 

 boy in our forest and brought to me." He afterwards mentions (10) another 

 specimen, brought to him about the middle of Nov., 1840, having been " found 

 dead in a field [near Epping] after a storm," , At his sale in 1871, these two speci- 

 mens (one of which Mr. Hope now has) sold for 21s. Mr. Harting (^Birds of 

 Middlesex^ p. 271), records one shot near the Steam Mill, opposite Bow Creek, in 

 March, 1864, Dr. Bree records (34. 1060 and 29. Apr. 14. 1874) that during the first 

 week of Dec, 1867, which was exceedingly rough and stormy, a boy was cleaning 

 an engine at the Colchester Railway Station about fivco'clock in the morning, when 

 a bird of this species flew against his lantern with great force and was stunned. 

 Mr. Hope says it is sometimes seen in winter time in Harwich Harbour and up 

 the Orwell. 



Manx Shearwater : Puffinus aiigloruiu. 



An uncommon winter visitor to our coast, and occasionally 

 picked up inland especially after storms. It breeds on the west 

 coasts of England and 

 Scotland. 



Edward Doubleda}', in 1835, 

 says (15) that a " She nr water " 

 [species not stated, but probably 

 the above] had been " picked 

 up dead in a field near the 

 town," having no doubt been 

 driven inland by severe weather. 

 Henry Doubleday says (34. 

 526) that another was picked up 

 dead in a garden at Epping on 

 Sept. 21st, 1866. One was 

 killed by flying against the 

 telegraph wires near Colchester, 

 in Sept., 1876 (29. Sept. 23), and 

 another was found in an ex- 

 hausted state at Bishop Stortford early in Sept., 1883. 



Mr. Travis records that (44. i, Ixii.) on or about Sept. 6th, 1878, after a very 

 rough night, a Dusky Shearwater, Puffinus obsatrus, was found in the early morn- 

 ing by the roadside at Sampford by a postman. It seemed very fatigued, but 

 lived two days in Mr. Travis's possession, during which time it ate a few slugs and 

 sometimes used its hooked bill to assist it in climbing about its cage. He informs 



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