. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. 270 THE BIRDS OF ESSEX. Order TUBINARES. Family PROCELLARIID^.. Storm-Petrel : Procellaria pelagica. Frequents the open seas around the United Kingdom, and breeds on various islands off the west coasts of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, but is never met with in Essex, except when blown in- land by severe storms. Lewin says (4. vii. 40) : " On land it is seldom seen, though one has been shot at AVallhamstow in Essex," Donovan, doubtless alluding to the same specimen, says (5. ^i. PI. cxxxix) : &qu
. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. 270 THE BIRDS OF ESSEX. Order TUBINARES. Family PROCELLARIID^.. Storm-Petrel : Procellaria pelagica. Frequents the open seas around the United Kingdom, and breeds on various islands off the west coasts of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, but is never met with in Essex, except when blown in- land by severe storms. Lewin says (4. vii. 40) : " On land it is seldom seen, though one has been shot at AVallhamstow in Essex," Donovan, doubtless alluding to the same specimen, says (5. ^i. PI. cxxxix) : " We possess one specimen, for- merly in the Leverian Col- lection, which is affirmed to have been shot at Waltham- stow in Essex," Sheppard and Whitear write (9, 54) : " The oil issued from the nostrils of one which we killed on the Stour, May 29th, ; Yarrell says {Zool. Joiirn. ii. 24.) :—" More than a dozen Storm-Petrels were procured on the eastern coast, principally during the remarkabl}' windy weather that occurred this month [Nov., 1824]. Mr. Clarke refers (24) to a specimen in the possession of the Rev. Robert Wilkes, of Lofts Hall, which was picked up many years ago at Elmdon, and to another found at Audley End in 1836. At Harwich," some are seen every winter. On Oct. 29th, 1880, several were seen in the harbour there, and one was picked up dead, probably exhausted by a recent storm" (Kerry—40. v. 26). Mr. Hope says it is seen in winter time in,Harwich Harbour and up the Orwell. On Nov. 6th, 1880, a dozen were observed round the Galloper Light Vessel (42). One was observed off Languard Point on -Oct. nth, 1882, and another at the Galloper L. V., Oct. 2nd, 1884 (42. iv. and vi). One was caught at the Languard on Oct. 25, 1885 ; several at the Kentish Knock on Nov. nth, 1885 ; one at the Swin Middle on Nov. roth, 1887 ; and another on the 14th ; and another on the lantern of Languard , on Dec. 24th, 1887 (42. vii,
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