228 THE BIRDS OF CORN"WALL. 



migratory raovements seem to occur in winter ; fairly common in 

 summer from Northern Germany south to the Mediterranean, 



Stormy Petrel ; resident, breeding on Eosevear, Scilly in 

 greatly diminishing numbers, and probably on the mainland near 

 Logan Eock and near Tintagel ; being nocturnal in its habits, it 

 often escapes observation ; nested on the GruU Eock, Falmouth 

 in 1866; for the greater part of the year generally keeps far 

 out at sea ; the smallest Aveb-footed bird. 



Leach's Petrel ; a winter visitor, but not often seen except 

 when driven into estuaries or on to the land by violent gales . 

 common some miles out at sea ; breeds sparingly on the Hebrides 

 and in Iceland ; common in America from Labrador to the Bay 

 of Fundy, wintering southward to Virginia. 



Wilson's Petrel ; an accidental visitor that breeds on 

 Kerguelen Island in the Antarctic Ocean, but is an extensive 

 wanderer ; of rare occurrence in England ; one picked up dead 

 at Polperro in 1838. 



Great Shearwater ; a winter visitor to our seas, but being 

 exclusively oceanic is seldom seen on land ; sometimes, as in 

 August, 1899, appears in large numbers off the south coast; 

 occurs in flocks at Scilly every autumn ; not much observed 

 on the north coast, but reported from Hayle and off Bude ; 

 probably breeds on islands in the Southern Hemisphere. 



Sooty Shearwater; an accidental visitor, recorded once 

 from Mount's Bay and once from Falmouth harbour; generally 

 distributed over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, but probably 

 breeding only in the Southern Hemisphere. 



Manx Shearwater; resident, but most numerous as a 

 passing visitor in spring and autumn ; rarely seen on land or in 

 our estuaries except after violent gales ; breeds on Annette, 

 Scilly ; essentially on Atlantic species. 



Fulmar ; a casual winter visitor, of which half-a-dozen 

 specimens have been found in the county between Falmouth and 

 Land's End and one at Looe ; usually picked up dead or in an 

 exhausted condition after tempestuous weather ; an ideal oceanic 

 bird ; breeds in immense numbers at St. Kilda, the Faeroes, 

 Iceland, and elsewhere within the Arctic circle. 



Truro, July 12th, 1902. 



