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Island and the Scilly Islands as its only nesting 
places in the vicinity! I have seen this Petrel on 
the whiting grounds outside Tor Bay, and Manx 
Shearwaters, too, during summer; but where they 
éreed is another matter, so skulking and secretive are 
their movements near and on the land. So far as 
is known, there is no breeding-place of the Stormy 
Petrel on the entire eastern coast-line of England 
and Scotland. The German Ocean is a land-locked 
sea, and it is more than probable the Stormy Petrel 
breeds nowhere on its coasts; but that its nesting- 
places extend far up the English Channel—much 
further east than Tor Bay—there can be little 
doubt. There are many known breeding-places of 
this Petrel from the Scilly Islands northwards, 
along the west coast of England, Wales, and 
Scotland to the Shetlands, and many others round 
the coasts of Ireland. The favourite breeding 
haunts of the Stormy Petrel are rocky islands, 
rising in uneven turf-clad downs, strewn with 
masses of rock and stones. The bird probably 
pairs for life, and is more or less gregarious at its 
breeding-places. The slight nest of dry grass is 
placed in an old rabbit earth or Puffin burrow, 
under a rock or heap of loose stones, or in ruins, 
and amongst masonry. In some cases no nest 
whatever is made. The single egg is laid normally 
in June. This is pure white in ground colour, with 
a faint zone of minute dust-like red specks round 
the larger end. Like all its kindred, the Stormy 
