38 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
a strange bird lying dead beneath a hedge hy the 
cross-roads at Marshalltown, distant about eight miles 
from the nearest ocean beach. The bird was in 
splendid condition, evidently not long dead, without 
a mark of any sort on it. It had lost its bearings, and 
either struck some obstacle or simply died from 
exhaustion. The boy took it to his teacher at Ger- 
mantown, Mr. H. B. Williamson, whose love of nature 
we have to thank for this record, the first, I believe, 
for Victoria. He forwarded it to the authorities of 
the Melbourne Museum, where it may now be seen. 
WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL 
Pelagodroma marina howei 
A GRACEFUL little sca-bird, with upper surface grey 
and brown and pure white face and under parts, this 
is the commonest of the smaller Petrels (if we except 
the easily distinguishable Prions) on our southern 
coast ; so that if one hears, as sometimes happens, of 
the finding of a Petrel inland, this is most likely to 
be the bird, though of course it may be something 
much rarer. 
I was once asked to look at an unknown bird which 
a gentleman living in Newtown had found the night 
before on his lawn, and had brought to town carefully 
enclosed in a brown-paper bag. I was no less sur- 
prised than delighted to find, when the bag was 
opened, that the occupant was a veritable White- 
