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MANX SHEARWATER. 



PETREL. MAKX PUFFIN. SHEARWATER PETREL. 

 SKRABE. LYRE. 



Pwffinus Anglorum, FLEMING. SELBY. GOULD. 



Procellaria puffinus, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Anglorum, JENYNS. TEMMINCK. 



Puffimis ? AnglorumQi the English. 



THE present, as a European species, has occurred in the 

 Mediterranean, Norway, the Islands of Denmark, the Faroe 

 Islands, Iceland, Holland, Italy, and France. In America 

 it extends in its range from Labrador, down by Newfound- 

 land to the south, through the States. In Asia, it has been 

 noticed in Asia Minor. It is included also among the birds 

 of Madeira. 



This bird was formerly very plentiful in the Isle of Man, 

 whence its name. 



The Manx Shearwater breeds in the Hebrides, at St. Kilda 

 and Soa; also in Zetland, at Foula and Unst. In Orkney, 

 in the Islands of Papa Westray and Waas. 



In England, on Annet, one of the Scilly Islands, and 

 on the coast of Wales. Many which are on sale in Lead- 

 enhall market in the spring of the year, are taken in 

 rabbit-warrens in Wales, Mr. John Button writes me 

 word. 



In Yorkshire specimens of this bird are occasionally found 

 along the coast in the autumn. It has also occurred near 

 Yarmouth, but rarely. One or two off the Northumbrian 

 coast, near the Fern Islands. Specimens have been seen off 

 the shores of Dorsetshire and Devonshire. In Oxfordshire 



