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the difficulty of tracing specimens, some of which have been 

 altogether lost sight of. 



* Tees Bay, one shot in August 1828, at the Teesmouth 

 (mentioned at the commencement of this chapter). 



* Flamborough, a male, I3th September 1865 (Boulton, 

 Zool. 1866, pp. 29, 30). 



* Bridlington and Flamborough, two at the former place 

 and one at the latter, 6th to igth September 1866 (op. cit. 

 1867, p. 543). 



* Flamborough, one, I5th October 1869 (Boyes, Field, 

 30th October 1869). 



Whitby, one, September 1870. In the local Museum (T. 

 Stephenson MS. ; W. Eagle Clarke, Zool. 1884, p. 180). 



Bridlington, one obtained by Mr. J. Elton, 1872. Presented 

 to the Oxford Museum (H. A. Macpherson, op. cit. 1883, p. 121). 



* Same place, one killed, others seen, 1876 (op. cit. 1876, 

 p. 5116) ; and from other sources, three immature Great 

 Shearwaters, but probably referable to this species, were 

 reported in the same year. 



Scarborough, one 1879 ; m tne possession of Sir W. Fielden, 

 who shot it (Harting's " Handbook," 2nd Ed. p. 488). 



Filey, one is recorded in the same year as in the possession 

 of Sir W. Fielden, doubtless the same specimen (Harper, 

 Zool. 1887, p. 430). 



Flamborough, one, October 1881 ; in Mr. J. Whitaker's 

 collection. 



Redcar, one, I7th September 1883 ; in my collection. 

 Exhibited by Mr. T. Southwell before the Norfolk and Norwich 

 Naturalists' Society, and by Mr. Howard Saunders at the 

 Zoological Society meeting (P.Z.S. 1884, p. 150 ; Zool. 1884, 

 pp. 157, 180 ; Yarrell's " British Birds," 4th Ed. pp. 17, 18). 



Redcar, one, in Admiral Oxley's collection at Ripon 

 (Ex. litt. J. H. Gurney, 27th June 1887). (But I did not see 

 this when looking over the collection.) 



Flamborough, two, September 1883. Examined by Mr. 

 W. Eagle Clarke (Zool. 1884, p. 180). 



Those marked (*) were erroneously recorded as Great Shearwaters. 



