The white birds were all shot in the month of September, 1837, by different persons ; three were suffered to go to decay, and only one prepared for the private cabinet of the gentleman who shot it.

A more beau- tiful bird I never beheld; the plumage was of the purest white throughout, without a single speck or flaw of any other colour.

The eye was of that bright red peculiar to albinoes ; as the white rabbit, polar bear, ferret,I never saw a ptarmigan whose plumage was of a clearer white than this partridge ; which is the more remarkable, as the so-called white part- ridges are seldom without an admixture of feathers of the usu- al grey colour.

The Stormy Petrel.

After a dreadfully severe storm of wind in September, 1837, a stormy petrel, (Thalassidroma pelagica), was picked up on Preston Moor, by a little boy, alive, but completely exhausted, although it survived its cap- ture two clays, and so far recovered its strength and activity, that had it not been killed for the purpose of mounting, it would probably have flown off.