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whose possession it came (Mr. Newcome, of Hockwold Hall, 

 near Brandon), allowed the specimen to be sent up to Lon- 

 don ; and, after some search, a figure of the bird was found 

 in Forster's unpublished drawings of birds in the British 

 Museum, the name of hasitata being written on the drawing. 

 Specimens of this species have at different times been pro- 

 cured from the Indian Ocean, the South Seas, the Austra- 

 lian Seas, and from the West Indies ; and Mr. Gould men- 

 tions having seen birds belonging to it off the Western Isles. 



We are not at present in possession of the materials ne- 

 cessary to furnish an account of its nidification. 



THE CINEREOUS SHEARWATER. Puffinus cinereus. The 

 Shearwater Petrels are more slender in their form than the 

 Fulmar, and the legs are placed further back. The present 

 species is considered to have a wide foreign distribution, 

 and is described as appearing in great numbers at times in 

 Mount's Bay, in Cornwall, although it has not often been 

 captured, we believe, on our shores. With the occasional 

 exception of the Storm Petrel, the egg of which is sometimes 

 finely spotted, all the Petrels with whose habits we are ac- 

 quainted lay but one egg each, of a pure white colour; so 

 that, in the absence of direct information, we have little 

 doubt but the habits of the present bird, did we know them, 



