MANX SHEAKWATEK. 365 



and readily ate small fish, shrimps, or fresh beef. It 

 probably died of some injury received at the time of 

 its capture. After death it was set up by Foster, of 

 Wisbech, who found it to be a male, and it was deposited 

 in the Lynn Museum, 



PUFFINUS ANGLORUM (Temminck). 

 MANX SHEAE WATER. 



Sir Thomas Browne doubtless refers to this species 

 in the following passage which occurs in the " Account 

 of the Birds found in Norfolk : " — 



" A seafowl called a sherewater, somewhat billed 

 like a cormorant butt much lesser, a strono- & feirce 

 fowle houering about shipps when they cleanse their 

 fish. Two were kept six weekes, cramming them with 

 fish which they would not feed on of themselues. The 

 seamen told mee they had kept them three weekes 

 without meat, and I, giuing ouer to fee them found 

 they lined sixteen dayes without taking anything." 

 And, again, in the letter to Merrett, dated December 

 29 [1668], he says he sends "Also the draught of a 

 seafowle, called a sherewater, billed like a cormorant, 

 fierce and snapping like it upon any touch. I kept 20* 

 of them aliue five weeks, cramming them with fish, re- 

 fusing of themselues to feed on anything & wearied with 

 cramming them, they lined 17 days without food. They 

 often fly about fishing ships when they cleane their fish 

 and throw away the oifell." 



In the English translation of Willughby's Orni- 

 thology, " The sheare-water " is figured (plate Ixxviii.) 

 presumably from Sir T. Browne's drawing, as in the 

 text (p. 334), wherein the main facts as already stated 

 are again set forth. Whether the drawing sent by 

 Browne to Willughby was identical with that sent to 



* Professor Newton tells me that the figures 20 certainly occur 

 in the MS., but that they are probably a mistake. 



