370 BRITISH BIRDS. 



a very severe storm, but no dates are given, and Mr. Bucknill 

 does not consider them to be sufficiently authenticated (J. A. 

 Bucknill, B. of Surrey, p. 352).] 



GREAT SHEARWATER Puffinus gravis (O'Reilly). 

 S. page 737. 



SciLLY Isles. — A fairly regular visitor in flocks during 

 autumn and winter to the seas around the islands. Never 

 seen among the islands (J. Clark and F. R. Rodd, t.c, 1906, 

 p. 346). 



Suffolk. — One was obtained off Lowestoft in November, 

 1898 (T. Southwell Knowledge, 1899, p. 41). 



Lincolnshire. — About November 27th, 1902, a male was 

 shot near the mouth of the River Welland (F. L. Blathwayt, 

 ZooL, 1903, p. 30). 



Yorkshire. — Autumn, 1904, a female at Scarborough. 

 A number of examples obtained prior to 1899 are also detailed 

 (T. H. Nelson, B. of Yorks., p. 754). 



Scotland. — On June 27th, 1894, between the Butt of Lewis 

 and North Bona forty to sixty pairs were seen, " nearly each 

 pair sitting [on the water] lovingly together." On June 24th, 

 1895, between Barra Head and St. Kilda over fifty pairs were 

 seen sitting on the sea in pairs. A specimen was killed by a 

 fisherman on August 7th, 1897, and two others in the fourth 

 week of July, 1899, near St. Kilda (Alfred Newton, Ann. 

 S.N.H., 1900, pp. 142-147). One was obtained from a small 

 fiock in the Summer Islands, Loch Broom, on October 31st, 

 1897 (J. T. Henderson, t.c, 1906, p. 114). A few were 

 seen off the Flannans on September 21st, 1904 (W. E. Clarke, 

 t.c, 1905, p. 86). 



Ireland. — In September, 1900, when cruising off the coasts 

 of Kerry, Cork, and Waterford, Mr. H. Becher found this 

 species surprisingly numerous ; on several days he saw eight 

 or ten (R. J. Ussher, /. Nat., 1901, pp. 42-43). On September 

 9th, 1901, the same observer sailed into a flock of two to three 

 hundred of these birds between Cape Clear and Mizen Head 

 and shot four. On September 13th he again saw large numbers, 

 both off Vale7itia and between the Blaskets and Skelligs {id., 

 t.c, 1905, p. 43). In 1906 Mr. G. P. Farran saw many in 

 August off CO. Kerry, and on November 1st off co. Cork ; and 

 several on November 6th off co. Kerry {id., t.c, 1907, pp. 163 

 and 184). In 1907 the same observer saw off the same coast 

 many in August, a few in September, several in November, 

 and in 1908 two in August and many in November {id., t.c, 

 1909, p. 80). 



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