STORM-PETREL — LEACH’S PETREL — MANX SHEARWATER. 
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Order TUBINAEES. 
Family PEOCELLAEIID.iF. 
STOEM-PETEEL. Procellaria pelagica, Linnaeus. 
“ Mother Carey’s Chicken.” * 
A rare and accidental straggler from the coast. — Harley noted one shot on 
23rd Oct., 184G, close to the town of Leicester, on the Eiver Soar, a few 
yards below the West Bridge. Mr. Macaulay states (‘Mid. Nat.,’ 1882, p. 80) 
that in 1862 another was found dead at Gumley, and is in the possession of 
Eev. A. Matthews. The late Mr. Widdowson wrote : — “ Several have been picked 
up dead near Melton,” Mr. G. H. Storer informs me that he has seen a nice 
specimen (mounted), which was picked up dead in a field near An sty, after 
very stormy weather, in 1875 ; and Mr. G. H. Nevinson has one that was 
caught in Dover Street, Leicester, about the year 1882, having flown against 
a wall. 
LEACH’S PETEEL. Procellaria leucorrhoa (Vieillot). 
A very rare straggler from the coast. — This bird is recorded in Mr. 
Babington’s list (Appendix ‘Potter,’ p. 70) under the name of “ Thalassidroma 
Bullockii. Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel,” as thus : — “ One found in Gopsal Park is in 
the possession of the Earl Howe. Communicated by Dr. Kennedy.” Harley stated 
that one, collected by the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, was 
obtained in the county, but the precise locality is unknown. 
JMANX SHEAEWATEE. Pu^nus anglorum (Temminck). 
A rare straggler ; sometimes driven inland by gales on the coast. — 
According to Harley, who called this bird the “ Cinereous Shearwater,” one 
was captured by a Shepherd Dog, in a turnip-field near the Eiver Soar 
at Cossington, in 1840. For several days it was confined to a grass plot by 
the foot, and during its captivity it was observed to grow less sociable, 
especially on the appearance of a Dog or Cat, or, indeed, any domestic creature, 
for, no sooner did one venture near, than it rushed at it with fury, and, with 
its sharp bill, drove it away. Mr. Macaulay states (‘Mid. Nat.,’ 1882, p. 80) 
that one, picked up nearly dead at Gumley^ in November, 1867, is in the 
collection of Eev. A. Matthews ; and another was found dead at Billesdon in 
1879. With reference to this last I am informed that the date is 1877, and 
that two others which I reported in the ‘ Zoologist,’ 1886 (p. 412), as being 
taken at Billesdon, are referrible to this single specimen, which was, it 
appears, caught in a hedge by a Eetriever belonging to the late Mr. T. 
* A popular name for all Petrels. 
