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Professor Ansted's list, and there is no specimen 

 in the Museum. 



174. Manx Shearwater. Piiftinus amilornm, 

 Temminck. French, " Petrel Manks." — The Manx 

 Shearwater can only be considered as an occasional 

 wanderer to the Channel Islands, and never by 

 any means so common as it is sometimes on the 

 opposite side of the Channel about Torbay, especially 

 in the early autumn. I have one Guernsey speci- 

 men, however, killed near St. Samson's on the 

 28tli September, 1876.* As far as I can make out 

 the Manx Shearwater does not breed in any part 

 of the Channel Islands, but being rather of nocturnal 

 habits at its breeding-stations, and remaining in 

 the holes and under the rocks where its eggs are 

 during the day, it may not have been seen during 

 the breeding- season ; but did it ])reed anywhere in 

 the Islands more birds, both old and young, would 

 l)e seen about in the early autumn when the young 

 first begin to leave their nests ; and the Barbelotters 

 would occasionally come across eggs and young 

 ])irds when digging for Puffins' eggs. 



The Manx Shearwater is not included in Pro- 

 fessor Ansted's list, and there is no specimen in 

 the Museum. 



'-!^ This is since my note to Mr. Dresser, published in bis 

 ' Birds of Enrope,' when I said I had never seen it in tlie 

 Channel Islands, aUliou,£:h it prol)al)ly occasionally occurred 

 there. 



