FORK-TAILED STORJU-PETREL. 
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Norfolk, Sussex, and Cumberland. From other ac- 
counts, its nearest ordinary approach to our shores is 
from about two hundred miles distance to the vici- 
nity of the Azores. It was originally distinguished 
and named by the Princo of Canino, and the Ameri- 
can seas seem more properly its habitation. Audu- 
bon says it breeds on the southern extremity of 
Nova Scotia, on some small islands called Mud 
Islands, where it forms burrows to the depth of two 
or two and a half feet ; he also found it abun- 
dant towards Charlestown. We have never met 
this species recent, but Mr. Yarrell describes a fine 
specimen as seven and a half inches in length ; “ the 
bill black, the head, neck, back, wing-primaries and 
tail-feathers, dark brownish black ; greater wing- 
coverts and the secondaries dark rusty brown, lighter 
in colour near the end, with the extreme edges and 
tips white ; upper tail-coverts white ; chin, throat, 
breast, and all the under parts, sooty black, except 
the feathers near the vent on each side, which are 
white, and some of the under tail-coverts are tipped 
with white; legs long and slender, and with the 
toes and their membranes black, but with an oblong 
greyish yellow spot upon each web.” 
Fork-tailed Storm Petrel, Thalassidroma 
Leachii. — Procellaria leachii, Steph., Temrn . — 
Procellaria bullockii , Flem ., Selby. — Petrel de 
Leach , Temm. — The Fork-tailed , Bullock’s and 
Leach’s Petrel of modern authors. — This Petrel 
