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Order 6. TUBINARES. 
Family PROCELLARIID^. 
358. Procellaria pelagica, L. Stormy Petrel. 
Apparently a rare visitant. A specimen in the Dunrobin 
Museum was taken at Scourie on the 30th of October 1845. 
We have never found this species breeding in Sutherland, 
but can scarcely believe but that it is to be found nesting 
on the Badcall Isles, and elsewhere (see under StaeliiN^g, 
antea, p. 144). They occur in misty or hazy weather, not 
infrecLuently at the lighthouse lanterns of Cape Wrath, and 
they were discovered breeding in peat-hags on Eoan Island, 
Kyle of Tongue, in 1884 for the first time. 
An occasional visitant to Caithness, but often seen by the 
fishermen, when fishing off the coast (0. MSS.). 
Mr. Dunbar says, " found inland some miles," and records 
a specimen so found — !N"ovember 3, 1884, and others are 
not infrequent under similar conditions. Occurs commonly 
in the Pentland Firth, as well as out at sea, being often 
seen by Wick fishermen. One caught by a Wick fisherman 
is in the collection of Mr. H. W. Doeg, and this was sent 
him in the flesh. Breeds upon the Pentland Skerries, but, 
so far as known, only very sparingly. 
359. Procellaria leuoorrhoa, FieiU. Leach's Petrel. 
A rare visitant. There is a specimen in the Dunrobin Museum 
that was taken at Forsinard on January 10, 1877.^ 
[In Dr. Sinclair's collection; called Bullock's Petrel by Messrs. 
Sinclair and Wilson.] 
^ As this species breeds on North Rona, it may occasionally be expected to 
occur in Sutherland. (See Mr. J. Swinburne's Notes, Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc, 
1883-4, and Harvie-Brown, op. cit. 1885-6.) 
