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part of his Manual, p. 507, under the name of Puffinus 

 major of Faber, and considers the lighter-coloured bird 

 as a male, the darker bird as a female. M. Temminck 

 also refers to, and includes under this species, a dark- 

 coloured bird obtained on the coast of Northumberland, 

 by Mr. Selby, who considers it to be a young bird. Mr. 

 Harley sent me notice of one killed in Leicestershire. 

 Dr. Edward Moore, in his Catalogue of the Birds of 

 Devonshire, mentions that several specimens have been 

 obtained on that coast, but had not till lately been dis- 

 tinguished from the Manks Shearwater, Puffinus anglorum. 

 For the two birds from which the figures here given 

 were drawn, I am indebted to the liberality of D. W. 

 Mitchell, Esq., of Penzance, who supplied me, in addition, 

 with the following account of the appearance of this species 

 on the coast of Cornwall : " In November, 1839, a man 

 brought me a Puffinus major alive, which he said he had 

 found asleep in his boat when he went off to unmoor her, 

 preparatory to a fishing expedition. I suppose this hap- 

 pened about three in the afternoon, and the bird had, 

 probably, taken up his quarters at daylight. The moorings 

 at Newlyn are from one hundred to two hundred yards 

 from the shore. There were great numbers of this species 

 off Mounts Bay at that time, and I soon after had two 

 more brought to me, which had been taken by hooks. 

 One of them is the light-coloured specimen in your col- 

 lection. The dark-coloured bird which you have figured 

 was, I believe, obtained in a similar manner about the 

 same period in 1838. It is the only example in that 

 state which I met with during my residence in Cornwall. 

 The adult bird appears pretty regularly every autumn, 

 though not always in equal numbers. It has long been 

 in several collections at Plymouth, though it does not 

 appear to have been distinguished there from P. an- 



