262 FORK-TAILED STORM PETREL. 



was originally discovered by Mr. Bullock in St. 

 Kilda during the season of incubation ; " and subse- 

 quent observation has shown that they annually 

 resort to the island for that particular purpose." We 

 believe no other breeding station is now upon record. 

 It has generally been found upon the mainland, at a 

 distance from the sea, either dead or very much ex- 

 hausted, evidently driven out of its course. There 

 has occurred to our own observation one picked 

 up dead in the lower part of Annandale, and kindly 

 sent to us by Sir Patrick Maxwell, Bart, of Spring- 

 hall ; a second by Mr. John Jardine, on the Glas- 

 gow and Carlisle road, still alive, but exhausted, and 

 dying in ten minutes after it was found ; and the 

 remains of the third were picked up on St. Bos- 

 well's Green, Roxburghshire, sufficient parts being 

 preserved to identify the species. Other European 

 localities seem scarcely ascertained, specimens being 

 accidentally found in different parts, as in this 

 country. It is an American species. Audubon 

 writes, in his Journal from this country, that Wil- 

 son's Petrel was first seen about two hundred miles 

 from England, and the Fork-tailed only came in 

 sight when the middle of the Atlantic was readied. 

 The Fork-tailed Petrel was also shot by Mr Audu- 

 bon on the banks of Newfoundland, in company 

 with the two last. 



In this bird, as the name implies, we have a third 

 form of tail, a fork of nearly an inch ; in the second 

 specimen we alluded to above, in full and very 

 clean and perfect plumage; the head, neck, and 



