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October 4th and 9th, a straggling Woodcock {Scolopax 

 Rusticola) was seen ; on November 3rd Woodcocks were seen 

 for the first time this season in any number together, but still 

 very few arrived. This has been an unfavourable year for 

 these birds. 



October 9th, Redwings {Tardus iliacus) arrived. 



November 3rd, dense flocks of Golden and Common Plo- 

 vers {Charadrius Pluvialis) and Lapwings (Vanellus crista- 

 tus) were seen. 



November 22nd, a large oblong Sunfish (Orthagoriscus 

 ohlongus, Schneider,) was left ashore last night below Monk's 

 House ; its length was 4 ft. 5J in., and depth 2 ft. 9^ in. ; 

 and its weight was estimated by Mr. R. Patterson of Monk's 

 House to be 336 pounds. 



Botanical Notes. By Archibald Jerdon. 



This summer, Goodyera repenSy in some abundance, waf? 

 discovered by Mr. Alexander Curie, one of our members, in 

 a fir plantation near Gattenside. In the same plantation I 

 observed a patch of Hypnum crista-castrensis — a northern 

 Cryptogam, as the Goodyera is a northern Phoenogam. 



Notice of Thalassidroma Bullochii, Selhy, {Procellaria 

 Leacliii of Temminck), the Fork-tailed Stormy Petrel. 

 By Fred. J. W. Collingwood, of Glanton Pyke. 



On Sunday, December let, 1867, we had a fine calm warm 

 morning ; but at 2.30 p.m. a violent storm suddenly arose 

 from north-east by east. On the following day a fine female 

 specimen of this rare Petrel was picked up by a labourer at 

 the Low Pyke, which is distant from the sea twelve miles, 

 and nine miles west of Alnwick. It was given to my game- 

 keeper and was then alive, but so much exhausted that it 

 died soon afterwards. It is now stuffed and placed in my 

 museum at Glanton Pyke. In the Field newspaper of 

 December 14th, there are two other notices of this Petrel be- 

 ing found, one at Colchester and the other at Spalding. This 

 species was first observed and discriminated by Mr. Bullock, 

 at St. Kilda, in 1818; and therefore in justice to the discover- 

 er, both Fleming and Selby have adopted the specific name 

 Bullockii, instead of Leachii, which was given to it by Tem- 

 minck. 



