A3A PUFFINUS ANGLORUM. 
PUFFINUS ANGLORUM (Temminck). 
MANKS SHEARWATER. 
§ 5100. Onze.—{Shetland?] From Mr. Hewitson, 1844. 
Of two, the other given to Dr. Brewer. They are very like Hens’ 
eggs, but may be distinguished by the more chalky feel, the greater 
thinness of the shell, and the greenish appearance on being held 
to the light, so as to shew the inside. 
[Apparently obtained by Mr. Hewitson in Shetland, where he states (British 
Oology, text to plate xxxix.) that he procured about fifteen specimens :— 
“These I had some difficulty in obtaining, from the very high estimation in 
which they are held by the fishermen as food.” He adds that Dr. Edmondston 
told him that the knowledge of their breeding-places is kept as a family 
secret, and handed down from father to son. This was in 1832.) 
§ 5101. One—From Mr. Hancock, 1846. 
§ 5102. One.—From Mr. Robert Dunn, 1848. 
§ 5103. Four.—Hoy, Orkney. From Mr. George Harvey, 
1848. 
Mr. Harvey had a large stock of the eggs of this bird, of which 
I took the half. 
§ 5104. Onve.—Sund, Strémoe, Ferde, 7 July, 1849. 
“J. W. ipse.” 
Of the Shearwater we examined two holes on the 7th of July, 
near Sund. <A boy knew the holes and he carefully worked down to 
them through sods carefully packed. In one was a young bird 
covered with very long Ostrich-feather-like, grey down. The other 
nest had one egg in it, on which was the bird, which I caught and 
examined, The egg had a largish young one in it. The nest made 
of grass and moss. There were other holes, but I did not care to 
examine them, as it was so late in the year. In Naalsée the old 
jomer cculd not find them for us. I saw many of the birds between 
Strémoée and Cisterde. Their flight is very peculiar. 
I saw several Shearwaters in the Firth of Forth off Kinghorn in 
‘August, 1850. 
