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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
An example was found near Stockbridge, about the 
year 1884. (J. H. Willmore.) 
Mr. Poole, of Shanklin, informs us that a specimen has 
been procured at St. Lawrence, in the Isle of Wight, and 
that others have been killed at the lighthouses. 
Mr. Willett records one from St. Catherine's Lighthouse, 
in a fog, on April 23rd, 1894— on the same date as specimens 
of Leach's Petrel and the Little Gull were obtained. 
275. Procellaria letuorrhoa. Leach's Petrel. 
Fork-tailed Petrel. 
A rare occasional visitor, generally during stormy 
weather. 
Our earliest record relates to the Isle of Wight, a 
specimen having been picked up at Freshwater in 1857. 
(More.) 
Wise ^ records one, on the authority of Rake, which 
was picked up dead near Fordingbridge, in November, 
1859. 
Bell mentions a specimen obtained many years ago 
at Alton. 
Mr. Hart says that they were particularly abundant 
at Christchurch in November, 1881. 
Mr. Corbin has recorded several from the neigh- 
bourhood of Ringwood in December, 1882, and one in 
December, 1885.2 
There is an example in the Earl of Malmesbury's 
collection at Heron Court. 
Mr. Willett has a record of one from St. Catherine's 
Lighthouse, on April 23rd, 1894, in a fog. 
^ "New Forest," ' "Zoologist." May, 1886. 
