BIRDS 



204. Leach's Fork-tailed Petrel. Oceanodroma 205. Manx Shearwater. Pufftnus anglarum 



leucorrhoa (Vieillot) (Temminck) 



This, like the storm-petrel, only occurs as Occasionally a shearwater of this species is 



a storm-driven straggler, but certainly much found on the ground and unable to rise after 



more frequently inland than that species. In a strong gale from the Bristol Channel. One 



every instance which has come to the know- was taken up alive and unhurt in a field of 



ledge of the writer the bird has been taken wheat, then in shuck, near Stratford-on-Avon 



up dead or too much exhausted to make any in the fourth week in August, 1888. It was 



attempt at escape. About a dozen specimens brought to the writer on the following day, 



examined by the writer have been found in and proved to be a male in fine plumage, 



the valley of the Avon, some of which were Another was taken up in Chandos Road, 



in Warwickshire. A bird of this species was Birmingham, on 5 September, 1880, as is 



picked up dead on 4 September, 1883, in a recorded by Mr. Chase, 

 yard in Guild ford Street, Birmingham. 







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