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THE GREAT SHEAR\\'ATER. 



Puffi'nus .major, F. Faber. 



The Great Shearwater — represented by the lower figure in the 

 illustration — is an irregular autumnal visitor to the British coasts ; 

 sometimes making its appearance in considerable numbers from 

 August onwards off Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, where it is 

 called the ' Hackbolt.' It is also not unfrequent near Devon and 

 Dorset, and in the latter it has been obtained as early as the 

 month of Tune ; but on the east coast it is comparatively rare, 

 though, according to ]\Ir. Gordeaux, many were seen off Flam- 

 borough in September 1881. In Scotland, the Rev. H. A. Mac- 

 pherson found a dead bird at Lowergill in Skye, on July 13th 1S85 ; 

 and I saw a large Shearwater— probably this species — in the Sound 

 of Harris on August 6th 1886. On the shores of Ireland it has 

 been captured on several occasions, and under the name of ' Hag- 



