508 



LARID.E, 



NATATORES. 



LARIDJE. 





THE MANX SHEARWATER. 



Procellaria puffiims, Shearwater Petrel, Penn. Brit. Zool, vol. ii. p. 206. 



„ ,, Tlie Shearwater, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



„ „ ,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 258. 



Puffiiius anglorum, Manks Puffin, Flem. Brit. An. p. 137. 



,, ,, ,, Shearwater, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 529. 



Procellaria ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 285. 



Puffiiius ,, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xiv. 



Procellaria ,, Petrel Mauks, Temm. INIan.d'Ornith. vol.ii. p. 806. 



Puffiims „ „ ,, „ „ „ vol. iv. p. 509. 



So exclusively aquatic, says Mr. Gould, is this little tenant 

 of the ocean, that the impulse of incubation alone induces it 

 to visit land, on "which occasion it resorts to those portions 

 only of the shore which are washed by the surge, generally 

 selecting sucli places as small islands, which, from the danger 

 of approach, or their rocky nature, are seldom made the resi- 

 dence of man. Whenever he does take up his abode there, 

 the number of birds speedily diminishes ; and this is shown 



