BIRDS 204. Leach's Fork-tailed Petrel. Oceanodroma 205. Manx Shearwater. Pufftnus anglarum leucorrhoa (Vieillot) (Temminck) This, like the storm-petrel, only occurs as Occasionally a shearwater of this species is a storm-driven straggler, but certainly much found on the ground and unable to rise after more frequently inland than that species. In a strong gale from the Bristol Channel. One every instance which has come to the know- was taken up alive and unhurt in a field of ledge of the writer the bird has been taken wheat, then in shuck, near Stratford-on-Avon up dead or too much exhausted to make any in the fourth week in August, 1888. It was attempt at escape. About a dozen specimens brought to the writer on the following day, examined by the writer have been found in and proved to be a male in fine plumage, the valley of the Avon, some of which were Another was taken up in Chandos Road, in Warwickshire. A bird of this species was Birmingham, on 5 September, 1880, as is picked up dead on 4 September, 1883, in a recorded by Mr. Chase, yard in Guild ford Street, Birmingham. 207
