198 BRITISH BIRDS. 



BULWER'S PETREL IN SUSSEX. 

 On October 24th, 1911, during a strong gale from the south- 

 west, a sjoecimen of Bulwer's Petrel {Buhveria bulweri) was 

 picked U13 on the shore at Pevensey, Sussex. Upon dissection 

 it proved to be a male. This is the fifth British example, 

 and with one exception, all have been obtained in Sussex. 



H. W. Ford-Lindsay. 



"CAWNOGE," THE IRISH FOR "SHEARWATER.' 



My use of the expression white " Cawnoges " {mitea, p. 141) 

 must be explained. The Manx Shearwater {Puffinus anglorum) 

 a familiar bird to Irish fishermen, is known to them as the 

 " Cawnoge," ^^hile the name of " Shearwater " is unheard of, 

 except to the educated. I was asking the North Mayo 

 men where the Cawnoges (Shearwaters) bred, and this 

 led to their telling me that some white birds of that descrip- 

 tion, which I understood to be Fulmars, had settled and bred 

 in their cliffs, and so it proved. Mr. Colgan tells me that 

 the Hooded Crow is called in Clare Island " AVhite Cawnoge " 

 (C4|i05 bai); = white Chough, but this has nothing to say to 

 " CaA\ noge " (Gat)65), and is probably a clumsy descriptive 

 term, the Hooded Crow being generally called Fanoge or 

 Finnoge (?)or)i)63 T^^^^'5-) R- J- Ussher. 



FULMARS IX ORKNEY AND SHETLAND. 



With reference to the note in the October number of British 

 Birds (]). 141) on the 8])read of the Fulmar, it may be worth 

 recording that in May. 1896, I found a dead female amongst 

 weed and debris washed up by the tide at Stromness. Orkney, 

 which on being opened m as discovered to have a fully-shelled 

 egg ready for extrusion. 



I was informed at the time that a few pairs had established 

 themselves on Hoy, some four miles cUstant, and I concluded 

 that the bird was a member of that colony, that had somehow 

 or other met an untoward fate. It w as quite fresh, and could 

 not have been dead many hours. The man who skinned 

 it considered it was egg bound. I still have both the l)ird 

 and the egg. 



In June, 1901, 1 was staying for some days at Sandness 

 on the west coast of Shetland, eight miles north of Walls. 

 On a headland which the natives called the "* Noup o' 

 Norby," there were several pairs of Fulmars, perhaps six 

 or eight, and these I have no dou])t whatever were breeding 



