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yelkoua7ius) off the Yorkshire coast. In his " Monograph of the 

 Petrels," now in course of pubhcation (p. 107), Dr. Godman 

 gives the range of this species as practically confined to the 

 Mediterranean, although its disposition to wander northwards 

 occasionally was evidenced by the fact that it had been re- 

 corded several times from the seas to the south and east of 

 Great Britain. If we exclude the Yorkshire records, these 

 occurrences appear to be as follow : Devon, three ; Hamp- 

 shire, one ; Kent, one ; Northumberland, one. The 

 Yorkshire records up to the date of Mr. Clarke's most recent 

 observations are as follow : — 



1. 1877, autumn, near Redcar (T. H. Nelson, B. of Yorks, p. 760). 



2. 1880 (about), Flamborough Do. Do. 



3. 1890, Aug. 16th. Flamborough Do. Do. 



4. 1898, Oct., Bridhngton (R. B. Sharpe, Bull. B.O.C., X., p. 48). 



5. 1899, Feb. 4th, ? adult, Scarborough (T. H. Nelson, B. of Yorks, 



p. 761). 



6. 1900, Sept. 13th, ? jun., Scarborough Do. Do. 



7. 1900, autumn, Scarborough Do. Do. 



8. 1902, Sept. 1st, <S adult, Scarborough Do. Do. 



9. 1904, Sept. 17th, ?, Scarborough (W. J. Clarke, ZooL. 1905, p. 74). 



10. 1904, Sept. 27th, Scarborough Do. Do. 



11. 1907, Sept. 9th, ?. Scarborough (W. J. Clarke, in Hit.). 



12. 1907, Sept. 19th, ?, Scarborough Do. 



13. 1907, Sept. 19th, <?, Scarborough Do. 



14. 1907, Sept. 28th, ?, Scarborough Do. 



15. 1908, Sept. 4th, 6, Scarborough Do. 



16. 1908, Sept. 21st, Scarborough Do. 



17. 1908, Sept. 24th, Scarborough Do. 



Mr. Clarke writes that out of twenty-two Shearwaters 

 which he has had through his hands since 1890, twelve have 

 been specimens of the Levantine species. With one excep- 

 tion, all these were shot from a boat from four to eight 

 miles from land, and most of them in the dusk of the 

 evening. Mr. Clarke, who has himself obtained several of 

 these birds, considers the Levantine to be the com- 

 monest Shearwater off the coast of Yorkshire in the autumn, 

 but in his experience it never approaches near the shore, and 

 must be sought in the dusk. It looks on the wing, he says, 

 distinctly larger and darker than the Manx Shearwater. 



It would certainly seem by Mr. Clarke's valuable observations 

 that the Levantine Shearwater migrates regularly northward 

 in autumn, and if this be the case not only is our knowledge 

 of the distribution of the bird affected, but we have the 

 anomaly of a species migrating north in autumn. Shearwaters 

 are difficult birds to observe, and the Levantine has for many 

 years been confused Avith the Manx Shearwater, but for those 

 who like to repeat that there is nothing more to be learnt 

 about British birds, and that there is nothing to be learnt from 



