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it is also worthy of note that in the edition of Bewick's 

 ' British Birds,' published in 1826 (vol. ii., p. 244), this 

 species is first figured and described by that author from 

 a specimen and notes supplied him by the late Mr. 

 Yarrell, the bird itself having been bought alive in 

 Leadenhall Market, on the 3rd November, 1823, and 

 said to have been caught on the Essex coast. 



"Selby records one in the late Rev. R. Hamond's 

 collection, as ( picked up dead upon a warren in 

 Norfolk,' the date not given ; but Selby's ( British Orni- 

 thology ' was published in 1833. In 1849, Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney recorded in the ' Zoologist ' the occurrence of 

 a male and female of this petrel at Yarmouth, in the 

 months of October and December, 1849 ; and in Mr. 

 Gurney's collection is also a specimen from Yarmouth, 

 but the date uncertain. On the 17th November, 1862, 

 an example, in my own collection, was shot on the coast 

 at Salthouse ; and another was picked up dead, inland, 

 after a gale, at East Bradenham, on the 21st November, 

 1864. Since that date my notes show the following 

 repeated occurrences : 



" 1867. One at Yarmouth, on the 6th of July, as 

 recorded at the time (July 13th) in the ' Field ' a 

 strange date for such a bird. One November 14th; 

 one December 2nd, male [on the sea bank] ; one De- 

 cember 2nd, male [in the harbour] ; one December 7th, 

 male; one December 14th, female; one December 9th ; 

 all shot at or near King's Lynn, with many of the storm 

 petrels at the same time. Records in the ( Field ' of one 

 at Colchester, and one at Spalding, about same date. 



" 1868. One at Babingley, near King's Lynn, Decem- 

 ber 19th. 



" 1869. One shot on the river Bure, near Yarmouth, 

 October 26th. 



" 1870. One at Gooderstone, near Lynn, the first 

 week in January. 



possession of [C. S.] Girdlestone, Esq." Mr. Lubbock, also, in 

 the MS. notes in his copy of Bewick, states that it "was bought 

 by Girdlestone." Mr. Dawson Turner, also referring to the same 

 bird, remarks that so stormy an autumn as that of 1823 " was 

 never knowi*." 



