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have got another Procellaria buUochii, found also on a road. 
The only bird worth noting this winter." Writing in 1843 
Sir William records* a specimen sent him from Lower 
Annandale by Sir Patrick Maxwell, and this I have ascer- 
tained was procured on December 2nd, 1838, near Springkell 
(Kirkpatrick-Fleming). In the Catalogue of the Birds con- 
tained in the collection of Sir William Jar dine there is included 
a Leach's Fork-tailed Petrel,t picked up on the Glasgow and 
Carlisle road by Mr. John Jardine ; it was " still alive, but 
exhausted, dying within ten minutes of being found. "J 
William Hastings told Mr. R. Service that about 1865 
one of these birds was sent to him, which had been found 
alive in a ditch near Parkgate (Lochmaben) ; and a bird 
of this species was observed near Newbie (Annan) on 
October 3rd, 1885. On November 21st, 1888 Mr. Service 
records in his MS. Diary that he received one from Mr. John 
Kennedy, Priestside, which " had been blown in by the 
continued gale of the past week." 
In the autumn of 1891 a visitation of Leach's Fork-tailed 
Petrels in unusual numbers occurred in Scotland and Ireland, 
as also on the Cumberland coast§ ; and the following speci- 
mens were obtained locally. On September 27th, one killed 
by telephone-wires in High Street, Annan, was found by 
Mr. W. Wright. The following day Mr. Wardrop shot one 
from a flock of six or eight near Solway Viaduct, and shortly 
after saw four or five at Annan Water-foot, and later, 
a single bird at Milnfield Railway Bridge. On the same day 
two were caught at Newbie (Annan), and Mr. Farish of Kirk- 
land (Kirkmichael) found one at Gamerigg plantation fifteen 
miles from the sea ; while another was picked up in the 
High Street of Moffat, some twenty-five miles inland. On 
November 2nd a specimen was picked up near Monybuie 
(Kirkcudbrightshire), just outside the limits of Dumfriesshire. 
* Nat. Lib., 1843, Vol. XIV., p. 262. 
t Cat. Birds in coll. Sir W. J., p. 208 (8468), a. 
t Nat. Lib., 1843, Vol. XIV., p. 262. 
§ Fauna of Lakeland, 1892, pp. 455, 456. 
