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THE BIRDS OF ESSEX. 



me that another was taken on Mr. Gayton's farm at Siward's End, on Sept. 17th, 

 1884. These were probably Manx Shearwaters. 



Greater Shearwater : Puffimis major. 



An irregular autumn visitor to the British seas. It has, doubt- 

 less, occurred occasionally on the Essex coast, but I have only one 

 record. 



Mr. Clarke informs me that some twenty years or more ago one shot at Debden 

 was purchased by Mr. F. Bond. 



Fulmar : Fidmants glacialis. 



A rare winter visitor only to Essex, as to the whole of the 

 British Isles, except when at its breeding stations on the Island of 

 St. Kilda. 



Mr. Clarke mentions (24) 

 a fine specimen killed at 

 Chrishall in 1834. This is 

 still in the Saffron Walden 

 Museum and is doubtless 

 the "fine example" men- 

 tioned by Yarrell (14. iii. 

 501), Mr. Travis records (44. 

 i. Ixiii) one taken on Nov. 

 qth, 1879, at Battle's Bridge 

 by Mr. G. Pavitt, in whose 

 Collection it now is. Mr. 

 John Basham^ of Maldon, 

 shot one on St. Peter's Flats 

 at the mouth of the Black- 

 ■v\ater in Feb., 1880 (Fitch) 

 Mr. Saunders says (37. iv. 2) 

 that although rare on the east 

 coast, from Northumber- 

 land to Essex, " they are by no means uncommon at times on the fishing grounds 

 about thirty miles out." 



