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MANX SHEARWATER, Puffinus Anglorum. An 

 unusual and accidental visitor to this part of the 

 British Channel. Has been met with occasionally 

 at some distance from the shore. 



FORK-TAILED PETREL, Thalassidroma Leachii. 

 Several examples of the fork-tailed petrel have 

 been taken on the coasts of Sussex : almost inva- 

 riably after south-westerly storms. It has oc- 

 curred at Pagham, Lancing, Shoreham, Brighton, 

 Newhaven, Pevensey, and Hastings. On the 23rd 

 of November, 1848, a specimen was shot at Little- 

 hampton; and on the 14th of December, in the 

 same year, an example was taken on the beach 

 near Rottingdean, and brought alive to Mr. Sways- 

 land. The tips of the wings were worn off, pro- 

 bably in its vain efforts to scramble up the per- 

 pendicular chalk cliff after it had alighted on the 

 shore. Although in a dying state, it evinced a 

 considerable degree of coolness and self-posses- 

 sion after its capture, disregarding the presence of 

 the spectators who surrounded it, and occasionally 

 pluming its wings with much care and attention. 

 In performing this operation it opened its beak 

 very wide, and causing the root of the quill to fall 

 into the angles of the mouth, it drew every por- 

 tion of the feather slowly through the closed man- 

 dibles. 



