85 BIRDS. 



or eighty specimens which had come under his notice, not 

 more than three or four were' of *the present species, all the 

 rest being Great Shearwaters, which shows that, as a rule, it is 

 much less numerous on our coasts than P. major — though on 

 the east coast the reverse would appear to be the case, at 

 least off the Yorkshire coast, for Mr. Cordeaux, who 

 believed the present species to be the young of P. majorj' 

 says 'that most of the large Shearwaters which occur there 

 are referable to this species, and Mr. Boulton obtained 

 three near Flamborough in the autumn of 1866.' 



363. Puffin us major Faber. Great Shearwater. 



Casual visitant, of rare occurrence, in autumn and winter. 

 Mr. M. Bailey, of Flamborough, informs me that he shot a 

 fine adult on the loth Jan., 1874. 



After what Mr. Dresser has said, as quoted under P. griseus, 

 great difficulty arises in giving instances of the occurrence 

 of that and the present species, the records being inextri- 

 cably entangled, and it would be an impossibility, without 

 examining the specimens, to assign them to either form. 



364. Fulmarus glacialis (Z.). Fulmar. 



Casual visitant to the coast, in autumn and winter, of rare 

 occurrence. Often seen in large numbers at sea off the 

 coast. 



365. CEstrelata haesitata {Kuht), Capped Petrel. 



366. Bulweria columbina {Moq.-Tand.). Bulwer's Petrel. 



Accidental visitant from the Atlantic, of extremely rare 

 occurrence. 



Tanfield, one picked up dead on the banks of the Ure, May 

 8, 1837; in the collection of Colonel Dalton (Yarrell, 1843, 

 iii. 514). 



Scarborough, one, in the spring of 1849 (Higgins, fide 

 Graham, Zool., 1849, p. 2569). This record is eminently 

 unsatisfactory, from the absence of details necessary to 

 substantiate the occurrence of so rare a bird. 



These appear to be the only recorded occurrences for the 

 British Isles and the European Continent, Madeira and 

 the Canaries being its only known localities. 



