The Zoologist— July, 1871. 2665 



Black Tern.— The late Mr, Walcott, of Worcester, a good orai- 

 thologist, observed this bird flying over the Severn some years 

 since, as he informed me, and did not kill it, so possibly it 

 got back to the sea. One killed in 1855 is in the Worcester 

 Museum. 



Lesser Tern. — A sea-bird that, according to Temrainck, is 

 " tres-rareraent sur les lacs et les rivieres." Observed in the Avon 

 above Tewkesbury by the late Mrs. G. Perrot. 



Arctic Tern. — 



[No specimen is mentioned as having occurred at Malvern, but the name 

 is in Mr. Lees' list. — E. Newman.'] 



Fulmar Petrel. — A specimen was taken alive, and was seen by 

 the late Mrs. G. Perrot, who made a sketch of it. 



Storm Petrel. — This bird of the ocean and foreteller of storms 

 flies before them even inland, and numerous instances of its 

 pi-esence after gales and furious tempests have occurred. " During 

 the autumnal races a strange bird was observed to fly several times 

 over the artificial water-leap on Pilchcroft, opposite to the Grand 

 Stand. It turned out to be a stormy petrel, or ' Mother Carey's 

 chicken.' The little creature continued to hover about the Grand 

 Stand for some time, flying among the people, and eventually took 

 itself off". No doubt the fearful hurricane of the previous night had 

 driven it so far inland." — Worcester newspaper. 



Leach's Petrel. — A very rare wanderer from northern regions. 

 I have a note that four were killed on a meadow flooded by the 

 Severn near Worcester, in 1832. One of them was swimming on 

 the water. 



Smew. — Killed on the Severn above Worcester in the spring of 

 1855. 



Summer Duck. — Killed in the autumn of 1846, and shown to 

 me by Mr. T. Kobinson, who preserved the bird for its destroyer — 

 of course a gamekeeper. This is an American species, abundant in 

 the United States and Mexico, and must have flown across the 

 broad Atlantic ocean. One is in the Worcester Museum, taken at 

 Mathon by the Rev. S. Vale. 



Eider Duck. — Killed on the Avon, from the information of the 

 late Mrs. G. Perrot. 



Gannet. — This remarkable straggler was met with flying over 

 an arable field at Alfrick, in the winter of 1833. Killed accordingly, 

 and deposited in the Worcester Museum. Mr. Cecil Smith, in his 



