MANX SHEARWATER. 



NAT A TO RES. 



631 

 LARWJE. 



THE MANX SHEARWATER 

 Puffinus anglorum. 



Procellaria puffinus, Shearwater Petrel, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 206. 



TJie Shearwater, MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 206. 



Puffinus anglorum, Manks Puffin, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 1 37. 



Shearwater, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 529. 



Procellaria JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 285. 



Puffinus GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xiv. 



Procellaria Petrel Manks, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 806. 



Puffinus vol. iv. p. 509. 



So exclusively aquatic, says Mr. Gould, is this little 

 tenant of the ocean, that the impulse of incubation alone 

 induces it to visit land, on which occasion it resorts to 

 those portions only of the shore which are washed by the 

 surge, generally selecting such places as small islands, 

 which, from the danger of approach, or their rocky nature, 

 are seldom made the residence of man. Whenever he 

 does take up his abode there, the number of birds speedily 



