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This unprecedented and widespread immigration was attri- 
butable to the severe gales then experienced, and doubtless 
many more individuals must have been seen and procured.* 
On December 15th, 1893, a Leach's Fork-tailed Petrel 
was secured in one of the bird-nets on Caerlaverock shore, f 
and this is possibly the same specimen as that recorded 
by Mr. Hugh Mackay as caught in the nets at Caerlaverock 
in the beginning of January, 1894, and sent him by Mr. 
Turner to set up.$ 
The winter of 1906-1907 produced several records. On 
November 18th one was captured near Dunscore ; on the 
same day two specimens were picked up in the vicinity of 
Lochar Moss, and two days later a fourth was obtained at 
Castlemilk near Lockerbie. § Mr. J. Harkness informs me 
that he found the remains of a Leach's Fork-tailed Petrel 
in Newfield Wood (Ruthwell) in December, 1906 ; and Mr. 
J. McCarfrae writes me that he shot a Stormy Petrel [but 
which I suspect to have been an example of Oceanodroma 
leucorrhoa] in the winter of 1906 during a terrific gale, 
some thirty miles inland, on Crawick Water." Another 
was picked up dead near Annan on January 1st, 1907.|| 
This last local visitation was probably due to the severe 
NNW. gales which raged in the latter half of November ; 
and, as may be judged from the foregoing, the appearance 
of this species, though irregular, is nothing hke so rare as 
that of the preceding. 
This species occurs irregularly on all the coasts of Great 
Britain in winter, generally after gales, and breeds on St. 
Kilda, the Outer Hebrides, and in Mayo and Kerry on the 
west coast of Ireland. It is found on the Atlantic and 
Pacific Oceans, and may be termed an inhabitant of " the 
temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere." 
* Dumfries Courier and Herald, October 6th, 1891. 
t Op. cit, April 19th, 1894. 
+ Trans. D. and G. Nat. Hist. Soc, April 20th, 1894. 
§ Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1907, p. 113. 
11 Trans. Carlisle Nat. Hist. Soc, 1909, p. 89 
