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Puffinis gravis. O'Reilly. Great Shearwater. —Not recorded from Co. Mayo 

 except by Warren on Killala Bay and near Downpatrick Head ; but 

 repeatedly met with off that coast and off Achill by Rev. W. S. Green. 

 Ussher has seen it off Slyne Head ; and it roams over the ocean, often in 

 flocks, north and south of Connaught from August to November. Its 

 nesting-place was discovered for the first time in 1909 on Tristan 

 d'Achuna (Bull. B. 0. C, No. clxiv, p. -22). 



Puffinus griseus (Gmel.). Sooty Shearwater. — A specimen in Dublin 

 Museum was shot between Achill and The Bills on 2'2nd May, 1901. 

 Another was shot at Portmore Bay on the Mullet, 3rd August, 1910 

 (Wallace). On 17th August, 1911, the Duchess of Bedford saw a large 

 number between Eagle Island and Black Rock. 1 Sooty and Great 

 Shearwaters have been repeatedly seen off the land's ends of Cork and 

 Kerry by Becher and Farran, chiefly in August and September, and 

 sometimes in considerable numbers. 



Puffinus anglorum (Temm.). Manx Shearwater. — Reported by light- 

 keepers as heard on Clare Island in April (when Shearwaters are 

 frequently observed) ; M'Cabe says, 'often seen." Common in summer 

 on the neighbouring sea; and Wallace says, "nests on various islands." 

 G. E. Scroope got the egg on Kid Island, and Moistha is another breeding- 

 place (Warren ) Colonies exist on Aranmore and the Kerry isles. 



Fulmarus glaeialis (Linn.). Fulmar. —Seen on the wing inside Black Rock 

 (Mayo), July, 1911, by Lindner and Ussher, who found a colony breeding 

 on north Mayo coast same month ; while others were found breeding in 

 north Donegal in May, 1911, and had been observed in both localities 

 the previous season. Not found on Clare Island cliffs ; but should be 

 looked for there, now that it has taken to nesting on the Irish coast, 

 and spreading so fast among the isles of Scotland. Fulmars are met 

 with at all seasons twenty miles and upwards west of Ireland. 



1 "British Birds," vol. v, p. 141. 



