86 BIRDS. 
or eighty specimens which had come under his notice, not 
more than three or four were’ of ‘the present species, all the 
rest being Great Shearwaters, which shows that, asa rule, it is 
much less numerous on our coasts than P. major—though on 
the east coast the reverse would appear to be the case, at 
least off the Yorkshire coast, for Mr. Cordeaux, who 
believed the present species to be the young of P. major,’ 
says ‘that most of the large Shearwaters which occur there 
are referable to this species, and Mr. Boulton obtained 
three near Flamborough in the autumn of 1866.’ 
363. Puffinus major faser. Great Shearwater. 
Casual visitant, of rare occurrence, in autumn and winter. 
Mr. M. Bailey, of Flamborough, informs me that he shot a 
fine adult on the 1oth Jan., 1874. 
After what Mr. Dresser has said, as quoted under P. griseus, 
great difficulty arises in giving instances of the occurrence 
of that and the present species, the records being inextri- 
cably entangled, and it would be an impossibility, without 
examining the specimens, to assign them to either form. 
364. Fulmarus glacialis (Z.). Fulmar. 
Casual visitant to the coast, in autumn and winter, of rare 
occurrence. Often seen in large numbers at sea off the 
coast. 
365. CEstrelata hesitata (Kuh/). Capped Petrel. 
366. Bulweria columbina (4og.-Zand.). Bulwer’s Petrel. 
Accidental visitant from the Atlantic, of extremely rare 
occurrence. 
Tanfield, one picked up dead on the banks of the Ure, May 
8, 1837; in the collection of Colonel Dalton (Yarrell, 1843, 
lll. 514). : 
Scarborough, one, in the spring of 1849 (Higgins, fide 
Graham, Zool., 1849, p. 2569). This record is eminently 
unsatisfactory, from the absence of details necessary to 
substantiate the occurrence of so rare a bird. 
These appear to be the only recorded occurrences for the 
British Isles and the European Continent, Madeira and 
the Canaries being its only known localities, 
