ADDITIONS SINCE 1899. 369 



Scotland. — One was shot at Lendalfoot (xA.yr) on January 

 27th, 1906. The species had not previously been recorded 

 in the Clyde area {Ann. S.N.H., 1907, p. 207). 



Ireland. — A male " coming into summer plumage " was 

 shot on Belfast Lough on February 28th, 1907 (W. H. Work- 

 man, ZooL, 1907, p. 111). Has been obtained in twenty- 

 four instances (R. J. Ussher, List of Irish Birds, p. 53). 



Food. — In the stomach of one shot March 2nd, 1898, at 

 Strathbeg (Dee area), were found many feathers, amongst 

 which were numbers of a stalk-eyed crustacean {Mysis 

 vulgaris), showing that though killed on a loch, it had shortly 

 before been feeding in the sea (G. Sim, Vert. Fauna of Dee, 

 p. 190). 



STORM-PETREL Procellaria pelagica L. S. page 727. 



Breeding on the East Coast. — A pair, at first thought 

 to be Fork- tailed Petrels, but afterwards identified as of this 

 species, were found breeding on the Bass Rock in 1904 (H. N. 

 Bonar,' Field, 1904, pp. 908 and 983 ; W. E. Clarke, A7in. 

 S.N.H., 1905, p. 55). 



LEACH'S FORK-TAILED PETREL Oceanodroma leucorrhoa 

 {Vieill.). S. page 729. 



Flannan Islands (Outer Hebrides). — Regarded as the 

 chief breeding stations of the species in the British Isles. On 

 Eilean Mor they are more plentiful than the Storm-Petrel. 

 They lay earlier — the first eggs being found on May 29th, 

 but their nesting habits are similar. The chicks are sooty- 

 black and much darker than those of the Storm-Petrel (W. 

 Eagle Clarke, Ann. S.N.H., 1905, p. 86). 



Ireland. — A very few have been found breeding on islands 

 off Mayo and Kerry (R. J. Ussher, List of I. Birds, p. 53). 



MADEIRAN FORK-TAILED PETREL Oceanodroma castro 

 (Harcourt). S. page 731. 



A female (the second British example) was shot near Hythe, 

 Kent, on November 8th, 1906, while flitting along the shore 

 in a tired manner after a heavy south-westerly gale (N. F. 

 Ticehurst, Bull. B.O.C., XIX., p. 20). 



WILSON'S PETREL Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl). 

 S. page 733. 



[Surrey. — Four specimens in the Charterhouse Collection 

 are said to have been killed on Godalming Pease Marsh, after 



