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Flamborough fishermen had that season seen scores 

 of them off the coast about thirty miles from land. 



One in my possession, a storm- driven bird, was 

 killed by a groom on the 18th of October, 1867, 

 in a turnip-field at Barnoldby-le-Beck; it was un- 

 wounded, but apparently incapable of rising from the 

 land*. 



The stomachs of Fulmar Petrels shot off this coast, 

 examined by myself and Mr. Gurney, have contained 

 the jaws of cuttlefish, as well as numbers of small 

 globular semiopaque substances, apparently the air- 

 bladders of some species of Algae. 



272. PUFFINUS MAJOR, Faber. Greater Shearwater. 



An occasional, but rather rare autumn-visitant to 

 the east coast of Yorkshire, almost always birds in 

 the deep-brown plumage of immaturity. 



Several were seen near Flamborough in the autumn 

 of 1866, three of which were received by Mr. Boulton 

 in the flesh : they were all in the young plumage. 



273. PUFFINUS ANGLORUM (Temminck). The Manx 

 Shearwater. 



Not uncommon in the autumn along our coast, 

 arriving in small parties, and is by no means unusual 

 at this season off the Flamborough Headland. 



Mr. Boulton has frequently obtained them shot on 

 the eastern seaboard in all stages of plumage. 

 * Zoologist, 1868, p. 1030. 



