2056 The Zoologist — March, 1870. 



October. 



Storm Petrel. — Between the 18th of this month and the 1st of 

 November a very considerable number of these birds, storm driven, 

 appeared on our coast, of which upwards of twenty specimens were 

 either shot or picked up dead in different localities, but chiefly in the 

 vicinity of the sea. Some iew, however, as usually occurs at that 

 season, were met with far inland, one being picked up dead near the 

 Foundry Bridge, Norwich, on the 19lh of October, and another at 

 Catton on the 21st, more than twenty miles from the coast: another 

 was found dead at the foot of a tree in a plantation at Catton, against 

 which it had probably flown in the night. About this time many were 

 seen, sheltering from the heavy storm outside, in the outer harbour at 

 Lowestoft, on the Suffolk coast. Some of these birds had a iew 

 minute black seeds in their stomachs. 



Forklailed Petrel. — But one example of this rarer species has 

 come under ray notice this autumn, shot on the North River, near 

 Yarmouth, on the 2Cth of October. 



Pomariue and Btiffon^s Skuas. — On the 30th of October a pomarine 

 skua (apparently in its second year's plumage) and a Buffon's skua (a 

 bird of the year) were sent up to Norwich, from Cluy, next the sea, 

 with two or three storm petrels. 



Gray Phalar ope. — A single bird was killed at Stalham on the 18lh. 



Little Gull. — On the 2;3rd of October an immature specimen was 

 sent me from Salthouse, and a second, in similar plumage, was killed 

 at Blakeney, on the 30lh, by Mr. R. Upcher, which was consorting at 

 the lime with some gray plovers, in a marsh near the sea, which was 

 partly flooded from the sea breaking over the banks during the recent 

 gales. The feet and legs in my own specimen, when recently killed, 

 were of a livid pink colour. 



Purple Sandpiper. — On the 30th a single specimen of this sand- 

 piper was shot at Blakeney by Mr. R. Upcher. 



November. 



Fulmar Petrel. — A grayish-looking bird of this species, somewhat 

 scarce on our coast, was shot whilst swimming in the river Bure, near 

 Yarmouth, on the 3rd of November. The worn and weather-beaten 

 state of the plumage was explained, on dissection, by the appearance 

 of an old shot-wound and a piece of tarred rope in the interstices, 



