284 THE BIRDS OF SUSSEX. 



motion over the water, and may be readily recognized at 

 almost any distance. In the ' Zoologist ' (p. 6606) we find 

 the following from Mr. John Wilson : — '' Manx Shearwater, 

 1847/^ in a list of rare birds near Worthing, Avitli no remark. 

 And on p. 9102, for 1864, Mr. Button writes of this bird 

 that one was shot off Beachy Head about two years since, 

 which came into his possession. In the ' Zoologist ' (p. 391 

 of the volume for 1890), Mr. T. R. Harden, of Hastings, states 

 " that on going into the garden of a house at Hurst Green, 

 in August 1882, he saw a strange bird coming towards him 

 in apparently a very exhausted state, which alighted in the 

 garden, and was caught by his dog, when he found it to be a 

 Manx Shearwater. A strong south-western gale was blowing 

 at the time, and Hastings, the nearest sea-point, is fourteen 

 miles distant. He has it still, preserved.'^ 



FORK-TAILED or LEACH'S PETREL. 



Cymoclwrea leucorrlioa. 



This species is much less common than the Storm Petrel, 

 most of the specimens met with having been driven ashore, 

 or even far inland, by heavy storms. I have noted that on 

 November 15th, 1840, two were picked up dead on the beach 

 at Brighton ; one of them had lost a foot, but the stump was 

 perfectly healed and covered by two scutes ; and on December 

 2nd in the same year, one was picked up dead and much de- 

 composed, near Lancing, about a mile from the shore, having 

 no doubt been driven in by the same gale. On November 

 23rd, 1841, a specimen was shot from the beach between 

 Shoreham and Hove, and another from a boat off Brighton. 

 This latter was attracted by liver which had been thrown out 



