ii2 THE BIRDS OF DORSET. 



I have notes of one killed on the Chesil Bank in 

 February 1855 ; another at Chickrell the same year; 

 a third on the Wareham river in 1868 ; and a fourth 

 at Weymouth in September 1870. 



ORDEK TUBINARES. 



FAM. PEOCELLARIID^;. 



FULMAR. Fulmarus glatialis, L. 



Yarrell, iv. p. i ; Harling, p. 79 ; Dresser, viii. p. 535 ; 

 Seebohm, iii. p. 430 ; Ibis List, p. 199. 



The Fulmar with us is a rare winter visitant, as 

 it is to other southern counties. Its habits being 

 strictly oceanic, it seldom approaches land except at 

 its breeding stations. One was shot between Bexing- 

 ton and Abbotsbury (R. B. Roe) ; and another was 

 procured in Poole harbour, September 5, 1871. 



GREAT SHEARWATER. Puffinus major, Faber. 



Yarrell, iv. p. 12; Harting, p. 79; Dresser, viii. p. 527; 

 Seebohm, iii. p. 417 ; Ibis List, p. 198 ; Procellaria puffinus, 

 Pulteney's List, p. 19. 



The Great Shearwater is not an tmfrequent visitant 

 in autumn to the coasts of Devon and Dorset. One 

 was shot in Swanage Bay in the summer of 1868; 

 another was caught alive in Poole harbour, June 7, 

 1877. A third seen in Durleston Bay, Swanage, on 



