2i 8 THE BIRDS OF BERKS AND BUCKS. 



up. It was a male bird. The stomach was empty, 

 the whole frame was very thin and emaciated, and it 

 was much battered about the head, as if it had been 

 pecked at by other birds, or come in contact with 

 boughs of some sort. This bird, which was brought 

 to and examined by Mr. Burgess, is now in the 

 collection of Lord Chesham. Another specimen of 

 this rare straggler was picked up in an exhausted 

 state at Woughton, in Buckinghamshire. 



STORM PETREL (Thalassidroma pelagicd]. This, 

 the last and least of our web-footed birds, appears 

 occasionally on the coast in small flocks, and is 

 sometimes, though rarely, driven inland to some 

 distance by adverse winds. Yarrell says that Mr. 

 Bicheno recorded a specimen which was taken near 

 Newbury, in Berkshire. A second Storm Petrel, a 

 female, in tolerably good plumage, although thin, 

 was taken to a taxidermist named Hall, who resides 

 in Cambridge Terrace, Windsor, about the year 

 1855. It belonged to Mr. Pidgeon, who killed it 

 while it was flying over the gravel pits at Clewer. 

 For some days previously high winds had prevailed. 

 In a large field in the neighbourhood of Burnham, 

 in Buckinghamshire, a third example was shot and 

 preserved by a man named Hebbs ; this was in 

 1865, and the bird, I am informed, was in very 

 poor condition. 



A few days after the memorable wreck of the 

 Royal Charter which was lost upon the 26th of 



