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Professor Ansted's list, says, " The Storm Petrel 

 breeds in large numbers in Burhou, a few on the 

 other rocks near Alderney, and occasionally on the 

 rocks near Herm ; these are the only places where 

 they breed, although seen and occasionally killed 

 in all the Islands." I can add to these places 

 mentioned by Mr. Gallienne the little island, 

 frequently mentioned before, near Sark, Le Tas, 

 where Mr. Howard Saunders found several breeding 

 on the 24th June, 1878. I could not accompany 

 him on this expedition, so he alone has the honour 

 of adding Le Tas to the breeding-places of the 

 Storm Petrel in the Channel Islands, and he very 

 kindly gave me the two eggs which he took on that 

 occasion. When I visited Burhou in June, 1876, 

 I was unsuccessful in finding more than part of a 

 broken egg and a wing of a dead bird. But 

 Colonel L 'Estrange, who had been there about a 

 fortnight before, found two addled eggs, but saw no 

 birds. I thought at the time that I had been too 

 late and the birds had departed, but this does not 

 seem to have been the case, as Captain Hubback 

 wrote to me in July of this year (1878), and said, 

 " Do you not think that perhaps you were early 

 on the 14th of June ? Of the six eggs I took on the 

 2nd of July this year, two were quite fresh, three hard- 

 sat, and one deserted." I have no doubt he was 

 right, as the wing of the dead bird I found was, no 

 doubt, that of one that had come to grief the year 



