242 BIRDS. 



heard when searching for eggs, is peculiar, and may be pretty 

 accurately rendered by the syllables " ti-tee-tik," repeated 

 several times in succession. 



Procellaria leucorrhoa, Vleill. Leach's Petrel, 



[Obs. We have no actual record of specimens of this bird being 

 obtained in Orkney, but both Mr. Moodie-Heddle and his father 

 suspected that the bird occurred, having, as they thought, seen 

 it following other petrels with a N.W. gale. 



Seeing that this petrel breeds not uncommonly in some of 

 the islands of the Outer Hebrides, its presence in Orkney might 

 be reasonably suspected.] 



Puffinus anglorum (Temm.). Manx Shearwater. 

 Ore. = Lyrie. 



We find Wallace mentioning the "Lyre" as "very fat and 

 delicious so fat as you would take it to be all fat." He also 

 adds, " They roast it with the guts on a spit, that it may cut the 

 pleasanter (for it hath something of a fishie taste), and they 

 sprinkle it with ginger and vinegar." 



Low in his Tour mentions seeing Shearwaters in Hoy and 

 S. Ronaldsay. 



Salmon met with the Shearwater in Hoy, in 1831, and thus 

 writes in his Diary, June 1st: 



" The Shearwaters (Procellaria puffinus) select similar situa- 

 tions to the last (Puffin) for the purpose of depositing their 

 single egg. They are more difficult of access, as they make their 

 hole nearer the water-edge. We could not obtain more than one 

 single egg and the old bird. (The man who took this) 

 informed us that the rats destroy a great many, and that they 

 are becoming very (rare) there." 



Mr. Moodie-Heddle sends us the following notes on this 

 bird, and, as they breed commonly on his property, he has 

 ample opportunities of watching them, and so we give them in 

 extenso : 



" This bird goes out so early and returns to land so late, that 

 it is more numerous than is supposed. I have found it breeding 



