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folowing counties :—Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Sussex, 
Norfolk, Yorkshire, Northumberland; and at North Berwick 
in Scotland! Among recent captures may be mentioned :— 
Two adults—a male and female—shot October Ynd, 1901, 
off the coast of Scarborough, and two others, one a female, 
the other of doubtful sex; from the same locality, obtained 
respectively on October Ist and 4th, 1904 (W. J. Clarke, 
‘Zoologist,’ 1901, p. 477, and zbid., 1905, p. 74). 
In Ireland the Sooty Shearwater has been obtained on 
four occasions and seen several times. A bird was procured 
off the Kerry coast (near the Little Skellig Island), in 
August, 1853, and identified by More (‘ Zoologist,’ 1881) ; » 
a second was taken off Bangor, co. Down, on September 
29th, 1869; a third was obtained off Achill Island on May 
92nd, 1901, and is in the Science and Art Museum, Dublin; 
and on September 13th, 1901, Mr. H. Becher shot four 
from among numbers of this and the last species between 
the Blaskets and the Skeligs; two of these he gave to 
the above Museum (‘Irish Naturalist,’ 1905, p. 43). Myr. 
Ussher, in his work on the ‘Birds of Ireland,’ p. 391, 
states that both Sooty and Great Shearwaters were seen on 
several occasions by Mr. Becher when yachting along the 
south-west coast of Ireland in September, 1899; again, in 
the ‘Irish Naturalist’ for 1901, p. 42, the same writer 
publishes a set of notes received from Mr. Becher, when 
cruising in September, 1900, off the coasts of Kerry, Cork 
and Waterford, where he found these birds ‘ surprisingly 
numerous.” Except for two days Sooty and Great Shear- 
waters were seen daily during a sail of seven days. On 
September 14th, ten or twelve Sooty Shearwaters were 
noticed, chiefly near the Fastnet Rock. On September 16th 
Mr. Becher estimates that he saw about half a dozen of 
both Sooty and Great Shearwaters, the birds “passing at 
intervals all day.’ The next day seven or eight Sooty and 
rather more Great Shearwaters, were seen. Again on 
September 9th, 1901, Mr. Becher met with about ten or 
twelve of this, and a flock of hundreds of the last species 
between Cape Clear and Mizen Head (‘ Inish Naturalist,’ 
1905, p. 43). The foregoing facts indicate that these two 
species of Shearwaters are more plentifully distributed 
along the south-western coast of Iveland than has been 
previously supposed. 
' Recently, viz., October 16th, 1902, a Sooty Shearwater was captured 
n Stromness Harbour, this being apparently the first record from the 
Orkneys. (Eagle Clarke, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1903, pp. 25, 26.) 
