446 THE BIRDS OF KE^;T 



LESSEE DUSKY SHEAEWATEE. 



Puffinus assiinilis, Gould. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1837, 

 p. 156 ; Birds of Australia, vii., pi. 59 (1848). 



Dr. N. F. Ticehurst exhibited, at a meetinc;; of the 

 British Ornithologists' Club, held on December 13, 1905, 

 " a male specimen of the Lesser Dusky Shearwater 

 {Puffinus assimilis) which had been caught alive by Mr. 

 WalHs, of Lydd, Kent. It had been caught near that 

 town after that disastrous south-west gale of Novem- 

 ber 26 to 27, and kept alive for two days in a pool of 

 water. When examined it was covered with sand and 

 sodden with sea-water." 



Family COLYMBID^. 



Genus COLYMBUS, Linnffius. 



GEEAT NOETHEEN DIVEE. 



Colymhiis glacialis, Linnaeus. S.N., i., p. 221 

 (1766). 



The specimens of this northern species which have 

 been procured on the coast of Kent are immature birds, 

 taken during the winter, v,'hich have been driven down 

 south by severe weather. 



It is included in Boys' Birds of Sandwich, 1792. The 

 Eev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, 1844, says : " This bird has 

 been observed in Komney Marsh." There is a Kentish 

 specimen in the Maidstone Museum presented by Major 

 Best. Mr. G. Dowker says that it is " met with in severe 

 weather, chiefly off Whitstable and the Kiver Stour." 



Mr. W. Prentis also states that " immature birds are 

 sometimes met with and shot on the Medway." 



