112 THE BIRDS OF DORSET. 



I have notes of one killed on the Chesil Bank in 

 February 1855 ; another at Chickrell the same year; 

 a third on the Wareham river in 1868 ; and a fourth 

 at Weymouth in September 1870. 



ORDER TUBINARES. 



Fam. Peocellariid.e. 



FULMAK. Fulmarus glacialis, L. 



Yarrell, iv. p. i ; Havting, p. 79 ; Dresser, viii. p. 535 ; 

 Seehuhm, iii. p. 430; Ibis List, p. 199. 



The Fulmar with us is a rare winter visitant, as 

 it is to other southern counties. Its habits being 

 strictly oceanic, it seldom approaches land except at 

 its breeding stations. One was shot between Bexing- 

 ton and Abbotsbury (R. B. Roe) ; and another was 

 procured in Poole harbour, September 5, 187 1. 



GREAT SHEARWATER. Pufmus major, Faber. 



Yarrell, iv. p. 12; Hartlng, p. 79; Dresser, viii. p. 527; 

 Seehohm, iii. p. 417 ; Ibis List, p. 198 ; Procellaria puffinus, 

 Pulteney's List, p. 1 9. 



The Great Shearwater is not an unfrequent visitant 

 in autumn to the coasts of Devon and Dorset. One 

 was shot in Swanage Bay in the summer of 1868; 

 another was caught alive in Poole harbour, June 7, 

 1877. A third seen in Durleston Bay, Swanage, on 



