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this species is the least often met with in this district, the 
Fork- tailed or Leach's Petrel being obtained more frequently." 
On October 1st, 1900, an individual was shot on Hightae 
Moor near Lochmaben ; Mr. R. Service, who records this 
occurrence, adds that it was the first local specimen he had 
ever handled, all the others having been Fork-tailed Petrels.* 
Richard Bell of Castle O'er states that on December 10th, 
1901, a shepherd going his rounds in Eskdalemuir, found a 
Storm-Petrel buried in the snowf ; and Mr. C. Sanderson 
assures me that a bird of this species was shot during the 
covert-shooting at Castlemilk (St. Mungo) in December, 1907. 
In its range outside the British Isles the Storm-Petrel 
breeds in the Faeroes, north-west France, and on both sides 
of the Mediterranean as far as the Ionian Sea. It visits 
the Madeiras, Canaries, Azores, and the west coast of Africa 
to Cape Colony in winter ; and though it has been found in 
north-east America it is not known to breed there. It is 
found in autumn on all the seas around Great Britain, 
and breeds on the islands off the coasts of Scotland and 
Ireland, and more sparsely on those off the west of England. 
LEACH'S FORK-TAILED PETREL. 
Oceanodroma leucorrhoa (Vieillot). 
An irregular autumn and winter-visitor. 
Leach's Fork-tailed Petrel is an irregular visitor in October 
and November to the Solway Firth, being at times driven 
inland during tempestuous weather ; as in September, 1891, 
when an unusual number were noticed around the Irish and 
Scottish coasts. In fact, after any severe NNW. gales, 
individuals of this species, " flung across the country," 
may be expected locally. 
Sir William Jardine in a letter dated from Jardine Hall, 
December 23rd, 1831, to his friend P. J. Selby, says : " I 
* Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1901, p. 80. 
•f My Strange Pets, pp. 149, 150. 
