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the Greater Shearwater {Pajjinus cinereus), (Zool., 1851, 



p. 323 1), but the mistake was subsequently corrected ; 



see Southwell, Zool, 1 883, p. 179; Trcms. Norf. Nat. Soc, 



vol. iii. p. 474 ; and " Bh'ds of Norfolk," vol. iii. p. 364. 

 Three off Flamborough Head, autumn 1866 : Clarke and 



Roebuck, " Handbook Yorks. Vert.," p. 86. 

 One off Scarborough, autumn, 1870, fide Col. H. W. 



Feilden. In the possession of Sir Wra. Feilden, who 



shot it. 

 One off Flamborough Head, Aug. 27, 1887 : Harper, Zool., 



1887, p. 430. 

 Several off the coasts of Kerry, Cork, and Waterford, 



Sept. 1900 : Ussher, Irish Nat, 1901, p. 42. 



Ohs. This bird, somewhat larger than P. anglorum, 

 and smaller than P. major, is doubtless often mis- 

 taken for the young of the latter, as, for example, 

 by so good an observer as the late Mr. Cordeaux. 

 (See Clarke and Roebuck, " Handbook Yorks. Vert.," 

 p. 86.) To judge from the few records of its capture 

 in British seas, although it has not occurred often 

 enough, nor in sufficient numbers, to entitle it to a 

 place in the first part of this " Handbook," there is, 

 nevertheless, reason to believe that it will be found to 

 be a regular visitor in autumn to the south coast of 

 Ireland and the English Channel. Referring to this 

 bird, I wrote in 1872: "I have seen two or three 

 specimens of a Shearwater taken on different yjarts 

 of the English coast, intermediate in size between 

 P. major and P. anglorum, and I have little doubt 

 that a careful examination of these would result in 

 the establishment of a fourth species of Puffinus in 

 the British list." P. faliginosus, Strickland (Proc. 

 Zool. Soc, 1832, p. 129), is the young of P. griseus, 



