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246.— BLACK-NECKED, or EARED GREBE. Podiceps 

 nigricollis nigricollis Brehm. 



Rare ; met with chiefly in west Anglesey and Merioneth in spring and 

 autumn ; nests regularly in one locality. 



247.— LITTLE GREBE. Podiceps ruficollis ruficollis (Pall.). 

 Resident and generally distributed, but somewhat local. 



248.— STORM PETREL. Hydrobates pelagicus (L.). 



Met with on the coast occasionally during rough weather in winter. 



One was killed at the Bardsey light July 29-30th, 1911— 

 an unusual date for such an occurrence. C. D. Thurston, 

 in the Field, 2nd December, 1865, records one at 3Iach3Ti]leth. 



249.— LEACH'S FORK-TAILED PETREL. Oceanodroma 



leucorhoa leucorhoa (Vicill.). 



Occasional winter visitor to both west and north coasts. 



Mr. R. W. Jones saw one below the Great Orme's Head 30th 

 September, 1911 : a week later one was knocked do^^Ti with 

 a cap at Llanllugan, Montgomeryshire. 



250.— MANX SHEARWATER. Puffimis puffinus puffinus 



(Briiim.). 



Breeds in Lleyn and on adjoining islands ; frequent on west coast and off 

 Anglesey. 



IVfr. T. A. Coward (F. Fauna Cheshire, I., 457) states that he 

 has seen birds in June in the Rock Chaimel off the mouth of 

 the Dee ; and on 30th June, 1909, Mr, L. N. Brooke saw four 

 in the Dee off Gayton. Mr. H. G. Attlee observed small parties 

 off Mochras, 30th June, 1909. Mr. R. W. Jones says Shearwaters 

 are to be seen almost any day in summer from the Orme's Head 

 passing between Anglesey and Liverpool Bay. 



In the Zoologist, 1910, 101, Mr. O. V. Aplin describes the down- 

 plumage of the young from a nestling taken in Lleyn in 1905. 



[GREAT SHEARWATER. {Piiffinus gravis.) 



A Shearwater thought to be of this species was seen by Dr. 

 N. F. Ticehurst flying at sea off the south end of Bardsey, 12th 



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