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P. obscurus, but that it was not left for him at the British Museum, 
as Dr. Frere intended some day to make a closer examination for 
himself. Mr. Yarrell seems to think the P. obscurus and P. cinereus 
one and the same ; but these eggs are vastly different from those of 
the Great Shearwater above mentioned [§ 5094]. In the same 
letter of 8 October, Dr. Frere wrote :—“ With regard to the 
genuineness of these particular eggs, the skins are here, and 
Gardiner and Mr. Gray both speak to this Great Shearwater, while 
Mr. Gray told me that the other was Puffinus obscurus; but that 
he would look at it again if I would leave it at the Museum.... 
Is it not a hard egg for a Shearwater?’ Mr. Gould figures a small 
Shearwater in his ‘ Birds of Europe’ (pl. 444) as the P. obscurus, 
and says it is precisely like P. anglorum, except in being much 
smaller in size. He gives no particulars of its history. 
[Three of the above, with a down-clad bird (now in the Cambridge 
Museum), given to my brother and myself by Dr. Frere, were from the same 
consignment as those to which the two eggs given to Mr. Wolley belonged. | 
[§ 5118. Oxe.—Porto Santo, 30 January, ) 
1893. From Padre E. 
> Schmitz, through 
[§ 5119. One.—Porto Santo, 22 February, | Mr. Borrer. 
1893. J 
Sent with two other eggs and the skin of an adult bird to Mr. Borrer, to 
whom I returned the skin and the other two eggs. They correspond accurately 
with those formerly received by Dr. Frere (§ 5117). ] 
FULMARUS GLACIALIS (Linneus). 
FULMAR. 
§ 5120. One—* St. Kilda,’ 1847. From Mr. Graham. 
Mr. Henry Milner told me that they had great difficulty in blowing 
the Fulmars’ eggs on their way home, as most of them were hard sat 
upon, and this at a time when the Common Storm-Petrels had only 
just begun to lay—say about the 10th of June. St. Kilda is very 
seldom visited. The natives could not speak a word of English, but 
