16 BRITISH BIRDS. 



19th, 1903, he examined in the flesh, another specimen 

 shot three days before at Hunstanton, Norfolk. 



The bird is a well-known North American species, 

 occurring' in the Chukchi Peninsula, North-eastern 

 Siberia, but not recorded in Europe till now. 



XIX. — The Greater Yellowshank. 



Totanus melanoleucus (Gmelin). 



On behalf of Capt. Arthur Dorrien-Smith, Mr. A. F, 

 Grifiith exhibited an example of this species, shot by the 

 former at Tresco Abbey, Scilly Islands, on September 16th, 

 1906 (Bull. B.O.C., XIX., p. 7 ; also Field, November 10th, 

 1906, p. 823, fig'.). This is the first record of the present 

 species in England, or in Euroj)e ; of the Smaller Yellow- 

 shank there have been two occurrences, and one of these 

 at Marazion, in Cornwall. 



XX. — The Mediterranean Great Shearwater. 



Puffinus huhli (Boie). 



A female example, picked up dead on Pevensey beach, 

 Sussex, on 21st February, 1906, was exhibited at the 

 B.O.C. by Mr. W. R. Butterfield (Bull., XVI., p. 71). He 

 considered it to belong- to the form well known in the 

 Mediterranean, and subsj)ecifically distinct from the 

 P . flavirostris of Gould, found in the Atlantic. The late 

 Mr. Salvin saw no reason for separating them. 



