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shot from a small flock in Loch Broom, Wester Ross, on 31st October 1897, and 

 a few were observed off the Flannans on 21st September 1904 (cf. J. T. Henderson 

 Annals Scot. Nat. Hist., 1906, p. 114 ; and Clarke, A. S. N. H., 1905, p. 86). 

 To Ireland the great-shearwater is an uncertain visitor, chiefly to the west and in 

 autumn (cf. Ussher and Warren, B. of Ireland, 1900, p. 389). It was found to be 

 " surprisingly numerous " off the south of Ireland in September 1900, eight to ten 

 being seen daily ; and on 9th September 1901 four were shot from a flock of from 

 two to three hundred birds met with between Cape Clear and Mizen Head, while 

 on the 13th large numbers were seen off Valentia and between the Blaskets and 

 the Skelligs (cf. Ussher, Irish Naturalist, 1901, pp. 42-3, and 1905, p. 43). In 1906 

 many were observed off Kerry in August, and off Cork on 1st November, and 

 several off Kerry on the 6th ; off the same coast in 1907 many were seen in August, 

 a few in September, and several in November ; and in 1908 two in August and 

 many in November (cf. G. P. Farran, Irish Naturalist, 1907, pp. 163, 184, and 

 1909, p. 80). As our knowledge on this subject is still very incomplete, the data 

 do not admit of ready summarisation, and have of necessity been given somewhat 

 fully : the frequence of November records and the existence of still later ones 

 is worthy of remark. It will be seen from the above that the species is gregarious 

 and sometimes met with in large flocks : note also the records in which the birds 

 were recorded as paired. [A. L. T.] 



4. Nest and Eggs. Does not breed in the British Isles. [F. c. R. j.] 



5. Food. Pilchards and other fish, crabs and other Crustacea, and sea- 

 weed. Nothing is yet known of the young, [w. P. p.] 



MANX-SHEARWATER {Puffinus puffinus puffinus (Briinnich); 

 Puffinus anglorum (Temminck). Puffin, Manx-puffin, mackarel cock ; cuckle 

 (Lundy) ; lyre bird (Orkneys) ; lyrie (Shetlands) ; skidden, crew (Scillies) ; 

 perkins (Eigg). French, petrel manks ; German, nordischer Taucher- 

 Sturmvogel ; Italian, berta minore (P. p. yelkouan)]. 



I. Description. The Manx-shearwater is easily identified by its slender 

 hooked beak, long body, black upper and white under parts ; it recalls the little 

 dusky shearwater, but differs sharply therefrom in its vastly superior size. The 

 sexes are alike, and there is no seasonal change of coloration. (PI. 174.) Length, 

 14^ in. [368 mm.]. The upper parts are black, save^the lower part of the side of 

 head, which is white like all the under parts, but the sides of the base of the neck 



