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CINEREOUS SHEARWATER. 
GREATER SHEARWATER. 
HACKBOLT. 
Pujfinus cinereus, 
“ fuliginosus , 
“ major, 
Procellaria pujfinus, 
“ fuliginosus , 
DHSKT SHEARWATER. 
HAGDOWH. 
Selby. Eyton. Gould. 
Eyton. 
Temminck. 
Jenyns. 
Jenyns. 
Pujfinus —.? 
Cinereus. Cinereous —Ash-coloured. 
This species has been noticed in Iceland, and appears to 
be common on the coast of Spain, and in other parts of the 
Mediterranean. In America it is very abundant at Newfound¬ 
land, where it breeds. It has been procured also in Africa, 
on the southern coast. 
In Yorkshire one of these birds was taken alive in a fishing 
net, at Robin Hood’s Bay, near Whitby, in the North Riding. 
One was shot by Mr. George Marwood, Jun., of Busby Hall, 
in Cleveland, at the mouth of the River Tees, in the middle 
of August, 1828. Another also near Robin Hood’s Bay, and 
one or two near Burlington Quay. One was taken alive in 
Leeds, October 6th., 1854, as recorded by Dr. Hobson, in 
‘The Naturalist,’ volume v., page 144. In Northumberland, 
one, a young bird, on the coast. W. P. Cocks, Esq. has 
recorded this species as rare in the neighbourhood of Ealmouth, 
Cornwall, in ‘The Naturalist,’ voi. i., page 140. He also 
writes me word of two he saw at St. Ives, in the year 1843. 
Many were seen in Mount’s Bay, and three taken; one at 
Newlyn, near Penzance, in November, 1839; one the previous 
year. Thousands are seen some autumns off Looe and Polperro. 
Several specimens have occurred at different times on the 
Devonshire coast. 
Mr. Thomas Southwell has informed me that one of these 
