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the darker bird as a female. M. Temminck also refers to, 

 and includes under, this species a dark-coloured bird obtained 

 on the coast of Northumberland by Mr. Selby, who considers 

 it to be a young bird. Dr. Edward Moore, in his Catalogue 

 of the Birds of Devonshire, mentions that several specimens 

 have been obtained on that coast, but had not till lately 

 been distinguished from the Manks Shearwater. Piiffitius 

 anglorum. 



For the two birds from which the figures here given Avere 

 drawn, I am indebted to the liberality of D. W. Mitchell, 

 Esq., of Penzance, who supplied me, in addition, with the 

 following account of the appearance of this species on the 

 coast of Cornwall: — "In November, 1889, a man brought 

 me a PuJJinus major, alive, which he said he had found asleep 

 in his boat when he went off to unmoor her, preparatory to 

 a fishing expedition. I suppose this happened about three 

 in the afternoon, and the bird had, probably, taken up his 

 quarters at daylight. The moorings at Newlyn are from one 

 hundred to two hundred yards from the shore. There were 

 great numbers of this species oflT Mounts Bay at that time, 

 and I soon after had two more brought to me, Avhich had 

 been taken by hooks. One of them is the light-coloured 

 specimen in your collection. The dark-coloured bird which 

 you have figured was, I believe, obtained in a similar man- 

 ner about the same period in 1838. It is the only example 

 in that state which I met with during my residence in Corn- 

 wall. The adult bird appears pretty regularly every autumn, 

 though not always in equal numbers. It has long been in 

 several collections at Plymouth, though it docs not appear to 

 have been distinguished there from P. aiiglorum, until Dr. 

 Moore published his Catalogue of the Birds of Devon. The 

 latter is not a very common bird there, which may have been 

 the cause of such a mistake. 



" P. major is very well known to the Scilloniaus, by whom 



