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Flamborough, a male, 13th September 1865 (Boulton, 

 Zool. 1866, pp. 29-30). 



Bridlington and Flamborough, two at the former place 

 and one at the latter, 6th to 19th September 1866 {op. cit. 

 1867, p. 543). 



Flamborough, one, 15th October 1869 {Field, 30th October 

 1869). 



Bridlington, one shot, others seen, 1876 {Zool. 1876, p. 

 5116). 



From other sources, three " immature Great Shearwaters," 

 reported in the same year. 



At Redcar several Big Shearwaters were announced by the 

 Redcar fishermen to be out in the offing, in the autumn 

 of 1876, and I recorded them as Great Shearwaters, but, 

 in all probability, they were referable to the next species. 



SOOTY SHEARWATER. 



Puffinus griseus {Gmelin). 



Autumn and winter visitant, of fairly regular occurrence, but 

 uncertain as to numbers. 



The Sooty Shearwater is found in the North Atlantic, 

 and breeds in the Chatham group of islands off the coast 

 of New Zealand. 



The earliest known British example of this bird is that 

 originally recorded as a Great Shearwater, which was shot 

 by the late George Marwood, then of Busby Hall, in Cleve- 

 land, near the mouth of the Tees, on a very stormy day in 

 the middle of August 1828. It was seen early in the morning 

 sitting on the water like a duck, and was killed as it was 

 rising ; its manner of flight was consequently not noticed. 

 It afterwards passed into the possession of Arthur Strickland 

 of Boynton, near Bridlington, the friend and correspondent of 

 Thomas Allis, and was exhibited by its possessor at a meeting 



