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Oceanodroma leucorhoa. The last of October a Leach’s Petrel was 
captured alive on the Connecticut River, in the extreme southern part of 
Northampton. There are numerous records of the presence of this bird 
here, the earliest being previous to 1839 , when W. B. O. Peabody stated 
that although this bird seemed so bound to the ocean by all its habits and 
wants, he had one brought him that was taken near Chicopee River, in 
Springfield, seventy miles from the shore. It has been supposed that 
these petrels were driven inland by storms, but in October of this year we 
had no severe gales in New England that were noticed inland at Spring- 
field ; in fact, generally currents in the upper air were so sluggish that the 
numerous balloons that were sent up from this point were unable to cover 
any great distance, and it is also singular that if the appearance of these 
birds inland depends on storms, that they should be found here only in 
autumn and usually in October. 
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has more recent information on the subject, it would be as well, to publish 
it. The only known breeding places on the East Atlantic are the West- 
mann Isles in Iceland, the Flannans, St. Kilda group and N. Rona in 
Scotland and islets off the Kerry and Mayo coast in Ireland. — F. C. R. 
Jourdain, Appleton Rectory, Abingdon, Berkshire, England. 
