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alive, the irides were the most brilliant red I ever 

 saw" (Zool 1875. p. 4382). 



LITTLE GREBE.— Podidjm pwiatilis (Tuiistall). 



A RESIDENT species, common in Torbay and 

 Plymouth Sound during the winter months, of fairly 

 general distribution in the breeding season. 



Order TUBINAKES. 



Family PnocELLARiiDiE. 

 FULMAR.— i^///;«^//-«s //lac/a/is (Limi). 



A RARE winter visitant. A. Fulmar was captured 

 near Plymouth in November 1844 ; Mr. Cecil Smith 

 captured another on the South Coast of Devon, 

 November 30th, 18G6. Mr, J. H. Gurney received 

 from Plymouth a Fulmar caught alive in that 

 locality, October 24th, 1867, which he describes as 

 "a female, a young bird and darker than any 

 which I afterwards got." A specimen kdled near 

 Topsham, ou the Exe, is preserved in the Exeter 

 Museum. Pulman records the Fulmar as having 

 been killed on the Axe (Book of the Axe, p. 27). 

 In the North of the County, the Rev. M. A. 

 Mathew records a bird captured in Barnstaple, 

 during the prevalence of a N.W. gale, February 

 2nd, 1859. 



