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CINEREOUS SHEARWATER. 



GREATER SHEARWATER. DUSKY SHEARWATER. 

 HACKBOLT. HAGDOW^. 



ins cinereus, SELBY. EYTON. GOULD. 



fuliyinosus, EYTON. 



" major, TEMMINCK. 



Procellaria puffinus, JENYNS. 



" fuliyinosus, JENYXS. 



Puffinus ? Cinereus. Cinereous Ash-coloured. 



THIS species has been noticed in Iceland, and appears to 

 be common on the coast of Spain, and in other parts of the 

 Mediterranean. In America it is very abundant at Newfound- 

 land, where it breeds. It has been procured also in Africa, 

 on the southern coast. 



In Yorkshire one of these birds was taken alive in a fishing 

 net, at Robin Hood's Bay, near Whitby, in the North Riding. 

 One was shot by Mr. George Marwood, Jun., of Busby Hall, 

 in Cleveland, at the mouth of the River Tees, in the middle 

 of August, 1828. Another also near Robin Hood's Bay, and 

 one or two near Burlington Quay. One was taken alive in 

 Leeds, October 6th., 1854, as recorded by Dr. Hobson, in 

 'The Naturalist,' volume v., page 144. In Northumberland, 

 one, a young bird, on the coast. W. P. Cocks, Esq. has 

 recorded this species as rare in the neighbourhood of Falmouth, 

 Cornwall, in 'The Naturalist,' vol. i., page 140. He also 

 writes me word of two he saw at St. Ives, in the year 1843. 

 Many were seen in Mount's Bay, and three taken; one at 

 Newlyn, near Penzance, in November, 1839; one the previous 

 year. Thousands are seen some autumns off Looe and Polperro. 

 Several specimens have occurred at different times on the 

 Devonshire coast. 



Mr. Thomas Southwell has informed me that one of these 



