BIRDS. 8S 



Order 6. TUBINARES. 



Fam. PROCELLARIID-ffi. 



358. Procellaria pelagica L. Storm-Petrel. 



Winter visitant, not uncommon on the coast during severe 

 weather, which drives them in from the open sea, and after 

 gales of unusual severity they are often picked up dead or 

 exhausted on the shores and in far inland localities. 



359. Procellaria leucorrhoa Vieill. Leach's Petrel. 



Casual visitant in winter, of rare occurrence. In the winter 

 of 183 1-2 many examples occurred far inland ; four were 

 picked up near York, one or two near Hull, one at Thirsk, 

 and three or four near Halifax. Since then they have 

 appeared several times, also far inland ; one at Doncaster 

 in 1837, one at Kirkhammerton in 1850-1, and one at 

 Beverley in the autumn of 1854. 



360. Oceanites oceanicus {Kuht). Wilson's Petrel. 



Accidental visitant from the Atlantic, of extremely rare 

 occurrence. 



Halifax, one shot at Southowram, late in Nov.," 1874; now in 

 the collection of Mr. Christopher Ward, to whom it was 

 brought in the flesh (Ward, MS.). 



361. PufFinus anglorum {Temm.\ Manx Shearwater. 



Periodical visitant, in spring and autumn, especially the latter 

 season, when it is not uncommon off the coast, particularly 

 at Flamborough, 



2i(i2. Puffmus griseus {Gm). Sooty Shearwater. 



Casual visitant, of rare occurrence, in the winter. Mr. 

 Dresser (Birds of Europe, parts 61 and 62, Aug., 1877) 

 remarks on this species that it ' is difficult to discriminate 

 the records of its occurrence in Great Britain, as it has so 

 very generally been confused with P. major, from which it 

 is clearly distinct' Gould (Birds of Europe) and Yarrell 

 both figured the present species as the Great Shearwater, 

 and the former remarks (B. of G. Brit, vol. 5) 'that out of fifty 



