262 FORK- TAILED STORM PETREL. 
was originally discovered by Mr. Bullock in St. 
Kilda during the season of incubation ; “ and subse- 
quent observation has shown that they annually 
resort to the island for that particular purpose.” We 
believe no other breeding station is now upon record. 
It has generally been found upon the mainland, at a 
distance from the sea, either dead or very much ex- 
hausted, evidently driven out of its course. There 
has occurred to our own observation one picked 
up dead in the lower part of Annandale, and kindly 
sent to us by Sir Patrick Maxwell, Bart, of Spring- 
hall; a second by Mr. John Jardine, on the Glas- 
gow and Carlisle road, still alive, but exhausted, and 
dying in ten minutes after it was found ; and the 
remains of the third were picked up on St. Bos- 
well’s Green, Roxburghshire, sufficient parts being 
preserved to identify the species. Other European 
localities seem scarcely ascertained, specimens being 
accidentally found in different parts, as in this 
country. It is an American species. Audubon 
writes, in his Journal from this country, that Wil- 
son’s Petrel was first seen about two hundred miles 
from England, and the Fork-tailed only came in 
sight when the middle of the Atlantic was reached. 
The Fork-tailed Petrel was also shot by Mr Audu- 
bon on the banks of Newfoundland, in company 
with fhe two last. 
In this bird, as the name implies, we have a third 
form of tail, a fork of nearly an inch ; in the second 
specimen we alluded to above, in full and very 
clean and perfect plumage ; the head, neck, and 
