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Title: The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Nelson, Thomas Hudson, d. 1916 Clarke, William Eagle, 1853-1938 Boyes, F
Subjects: Birds -- England Yorkshire
Publisher: London : A. Brown
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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enumerated in the list of birds. Thomas Allis, in his Report, made in 1844, wrote :— Thalassidroma pelagica.—Storm Petrel—J. Heppenstall informs methat one was found swimming in the river in a populous part ofSheffield ; it flew up and settled on a house, where it was shot. It israre at Leeds ; rarely seen about Hebden Bridge ; one specimen wasshot at Keighley about four years since ; it is met with about Hudders-field. A. Strickland has known considerable flights of this bird occa-sionally, on the east coast, where many specimens have been procured,but these visits are very uncertain, and seem entirely the effect ofaccidental causes. This little wanderer is an autumn or winter visitant,not uncommon in some years, but, being essentially a roverof the deep sea, it is not often observed close to land, unlessin wild and stormy weather, when it is compelled to fly beforethe gale and seek refuge from the storms which rage withterrible frequency on our eastern seaboard. Arthur Strick-
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STORM PETREL. 749 land informed AUis that considerable flights occurred beforer.844, and, in October and November 1867, a number of thesePetrels appeared in Bridlington Bay, where eight or nine werekilled ; they exhibited no fear of the presence of man, andone was knocked down by a short gaff. Off the Redcar coastsome were seen in November and December 1877 ; as alsoat Redcar, Spurn, and other stations on 28th October 1880,and the 14th of the same month in the year following, duringheavy northerly gales ; on the latter date one was blownagainst a bathing van and captured alive ; I kept it forsome days, when it readily fed on oil which it took from thesurface of water in a saucer, skimming to and fro like aSwallow. In the great hurricane from the north-north-east,on i8th November 1893, five or six of these birds were storm-driven and picked up dead or exhausted on the sands. Although not usually observed before the month of October,it occasionally occurs at an earlier date ; I saw one

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