VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF LEICESTERSHIRE. 411 
years ago a specimen was shot between Old Belgrave Locks and 
“Lady Bridge,’ and was sold by him to “Old Mansfield,” a 
Birmingham eye-maker, since deceased. 
Stercorarius catarrhactes (Linn.). Common Skua.—Although 
this species is mentioned in Potter’s ‘History of Charnwood 
Forest’ as having been taken at Wymeswold, I should imagine 
that S. pomatorhinus was probably the species procured; 
especially as Harley mistook one for the other, and subsequently 
corrected his error. 
Stercorarius pomatorhinus (Temm.). Pomatorhine Skua.—A 
rare and uncertain straggler from the coast. One shot near 
Leicester, in Nov., 1846, being merely wounded, was kept some 
time in a state of captivity. Another, an immature bird, killed 
near Hinckley in the autumn of 1879, and secured for the 
collection of Mr. R. W. Chase, of Birmingham, has since been 
presented by that gentleman to the Leicester Museum, which 
also contains an immature specimen shot at Somerby, in Nov., 
1881, almost identical in plumage with that last mentioned. 
Stercorarius crepidatus (Gmelin). Richardson’s Skua.—A 
rare straggler from the coast. In the autumn of 1880 I saw, in 
the possession of a man named Donnell, a nearly adult specimen, 
said to have been shot at Enderby. 
Order Tuprnares.—Family ProcELLaRup2&. 
Procellaria pelagica, Linn. Storm Petrel.—A rare and 
accidental straggler from the coast. Harley has noted one shot 
close to the town of Leicester, on the River Soar, a few yards 
below the West Bridge. Mr. Macaulay states (Mid. Nat., 1882, 
p. 80) that in 1862 another was found dead at Gumley, and is in 
the possession of Rev. A. Matthews. The late Mr. Widdowson 
wrote, ‘Several have been picked up dead near Melton”; and 
Mr. G. H. Nevinson has one that was caught in Dover Street, 
Leicester, about three years ago. 
Procellaria leucorrhoa, Vieill. Leach’s Petrel.—A very rare 
strageler from the coast. Harley states that one, collected by 
the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, was obtained in 
the county, but the precise locality is unknown. Dr. Kennedy 
informed the author of the ‘ History of Charnwood Forest ’ that 
one, found in Gopsall Park, was in the possession of Earl Howe. 
Puffinus anglorum (Temm.). Manx Shearwater.—A rare 
