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[nec Gmelin]. Next in date, as regards England, is the 

 one obtained by the late D. W. Mitchell, in Mount's 

 Bay, Cornwall, in the autumn of 1838, and figured in 

 the woodcut with P. major in the present volume. Then 

 comes a bird purchased alive by Mr. T. Southwell, on the 

 26th July, 1851, of a boy who caught it sleeping on the 

 water at the mouth of the river Ouse, near Lynn, Norfolk, 

 and which, after being kept for five days, was set up 

 for the Museum of that town, where it still remains ; 

 but it was at the time recorded (Zool. pp. 8234, 3279) as 

 P. major, an error only recently corrected (Tr. Norw. N. 

 Soc. iii. p. 474). In the autumn of 1866 three Sooty 

 Shearwaters were obtained, and several more were seen, 

 as recorded by Mr. W. Boulton (Zool. 1867, p. 543), oflf 

 Bridlington, but these again were supposed to be the young 

 of P. major. At Whitby a specimen, now in the Museum 

 of that town, was taken in September 1870 (Zool. 1884, 

 p. 180) ; at Bridlington again, one presented to the Oxford 

 Museum was obtained in 1872 (Zool. 1883, p. 121) ; one 

 taken ofi" Flamborough in 1881, is in the collection of Mr. 

 J. Whitaker, of Rainworth Lodge, Mansfield ; two identified 

 by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, were captured in the same locality 

 in September 1883 ; and on the 17th of that month a 

 specimen, which the Editor exhibited at a meeting of the 

 Zoological Society, was shot by Mr. T. H. Nelson, off 

 Redcar. On the Northumberland coast one was taken in 

 August 1873, and is now in the collection of Mr. Eaine, 

 of Durham. According to Mr. Mansel-Pleydell, a Dorset- 

 shire specimen is in the Frome Scientific Institute ; and 

 Mr. Gatcombe answers for two near Plymouth. 



As regards Scotland, it would appear, from Saxby's * Birds 

 of Shetland ' (p. 363), and Mr. R. Gray's ' Birds of the 

 West of Scotland ' (p. 505), that a Shearwater, which they 

 call Pujfinus cinereus, has been obtained in the Shetland 

 Islands, and off Caithness ; but no descriptions are given to 

 lead to identification. Mr. J. J. Dalgleish has recently 

 informed the Editor that a bird shot off North Berwick 

 on the 27th August, 1878, and recorded (Pr. R. Phys. Soc. 



