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Moult and Habits. — In the specimens recorded above under 

 Scotland, as taken in July and August, Professor Newton 

 found that the primaries were all new and only partially grown, 

 and he concludes that the birds were practically incapable of 

 flight {loc. cit.). The birds observed in June, 1894, were 

 subsequently seen by Mr. H. L. Popham, who reports that 

 " there were no young birds amongst them, but the old birds 

 could scarcely fly, having apparently moulted out their 

 primaries " (c/. Trans. Boy. Irish Acad., XXXI., Pt. III., p. 72). 

 Howard Saunders, in replying to a question of Newton's as 

 to the statement in the " Manual " that this bird strikes the 

 water with great violence on alighting, gives as his authority 

 Captain J. W. Collins, who had had remarkable opportunities 

 for observing this species on the American fishing banks. 

 The habit had also been observed by Mr. R. Warren (c/. 

 Zool., 1894, p. 22). Mr. Saunders further remarks that Captain 

 Collins stated that the primaries and other flight-feathers 

 of this species were shed and renewed somewhat abruptly 

 from the end of June to the latter part of July, and that 

 Baron d'Hamonville had drawn attention to the rapid moult 

 of the flight-feathers in the Manx Shearwater (Howard 

 Saunders, t.c, 1901, pp. 15-18). 



SOOTY SHEARWATER Puffinus griseus (J. F. Gm.). 

 S. page 739. 



Cornwall. — One was shot near Looe on August 21st, 1899 

 (J. Clark, Zool, 1907, p. 287). 



Yorkshire. — " Now known to be a fairly regular visitant 

 to the Yorkshire coast in autumn and winter " (T. H. Nelson, 

 B. of Yorks., p. 756). Records since 1899 : — A male and 

 female October 2nd, 1901, one October 1st, one October 4th, 



1904, all off Scarborough (W. J. Clarke, Zool, 1901, p. 477, 



1905, p. 74). Others reported in 1904 off Flamborough and 

 BridHngton (T. H. Nelson, t.c, p. 758). Mr. Clarke also in- 

 forms us that he obtained another example also off the coast 

 of Scarborough on October 6th, 1908. 



Kent and Sussex, cf. supra, p. 243. — Three recent occur- 

 rences. 



Scotland. — A female was captured in Stromness Harbour 

 on October 16th, 1902. Of extreme rareness in Scottish seas, 

 this bird is new to the fauna of the Orkneys (W. E. Clarke, 

 Ann. S.N.H., 1903, p. 25). In the mouth of the Firth of 

 Forth Mr. William Evans is disposed to consider it " a fairly 

 regular, though usually far from common, autumn visitant." 

 It appears that only two specimens have been preserved, but 



