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LEACH'S PETREL. 



FORK- TAILED PETREL. FORK-TAILED STORM PETREL. 

 BULLOCK'S PETREL. 



Proce/faria Leachit, BEWICK. JENTNS. TEMMIKCK. 



Thalassidroma Leuchii, GOULD. 



Bulhckii, SBLBY. EYTON. 



Procellaria. ProceUaA storm. LeachnOf Leach. 



THE Fork-tailed Petrel was formerly esteemed a very rare 

 bird, but many have since occurred to reward babits of 

 attention and observation. 



A few have been obtained in France, Holland, and Belgium. 

 In America, it is common on the banks of Newfoundland 

 and some parts of the coasts of the north. 



Several examples of this species were procured in England 

 in the autumns of 1823, 1825, and 1831; in the first-named 

 of these years, one, said to have been caught on the Essex 

 coast, was bought in Leadenhall Market, London. In Dor- 

 setshire, I once obtained one found dead near Charm outh. 

 In Worcestershire, where one had been found before, a speci- 

 men was shot near the city of Worcester, November 12th., 

 1849. In Warwickshire, one, a male, was found dead on the 

 estate of J. E. West, Esq., of Alscot, near Stratford-on-Avon ; 

 five others in the same county in previous years. In Norfolk, 

 three were seen near Lowestoft, on the 28th. of November, 

 1849, and one, a male, shot at Yarmouth a day or two after, 

 as another had been in the middle of October; a specimen 

 was found on the beach near that town, December 25th., 1823; 

 another, a female, on Caistor beach, near there, on the 4th. 

 of December in the same year; also one found dead on a 

 warren. In Devonshire, a Fork-tailed Petrel was picked up 



