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places frequented by this species at present is on the island of Kum; this nursery-haunt is 

 situated on the face of a hill among broken boulders, and is about a mile distant from the sea. 

 In early times the breeding-place was on the coast ; and the birds were then collected at the close 

 of the season as at Barra, and salted for winter use. There is another nesting-haunt on the 

 island of Eigg ; and the Treshinsh Isles, Staffa, Iona, and various rocky islets of limited extent 

 are also visited during the breeding-season. The Shearwaters appear in April, sometimes as 

 early as the 10th of the month, and continue until October, when flocks are sometimes seen off 

 the north coast of Islay. I have seen small numbers pursuing their Swallow-like flight near the 

 entrance to Lochmaddy, in the Outer Hebrides, and have also noticed them at mid-day in the 

 Firth of Clyde. On 25th June, 1868, I saw three or four specimens when midway between 

 Ardrossan and the island of Arran. Mr. Graham informs me that the species is common in 

 Iona and Mull, and that on the 12th May, during very calm weather, as he was sailing to Staffa 

 with a party in a boat, he saw a number of very large flocks of Shearwaters swimming upon the 

 water. They were very tame, and he procured a considerable number." In Shetland it is, 

 Dr. Saxby states, common, arriving late in April or early in May, and at once commences 

 breeding. Thompson says that it is a regular summer migrant to some parts of the Irish coast, 

 and that it breeds, or used to breed, at Lambay, and on the larger Skellig Island off the coast 

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According to Professor Newton it has once occurred in Greenland, and, according to Faber, 

 it remains off the coast of Iceland all the year. It is commoner in the south, and especially on 

 the Vestmanneyjar, than in the north. Captain Feilden says that it " breeds in considerable 

 numbers at Troldhoved, Kolteroe, Kolbak, Sorvaag, Videroe, and several other places. At 

 Videroe, on the 8th of June, we were taken to one of the breeding-places of this bird ; the 

 burrows were situated in a steep, grassy hillside, about three hundred feet above the sea. The 

 exact position of the nests was recognizable by the patch of discoloured turf that had been 

 replaced in prior seasons over the hole by which the young one had been removed ; our 

 conductor raised one of these sods, scraped away the peaty soil below, and, removing a clod of 

 peat, exposed a Shearwater sitting on its egg. I took both the bird and egg ; the former proved 

 to be a male. The egg was deposited on a few blades of withered grass. I only examined this 

 one burrow, as the islanders are extremely averse to disturbing these birds, the young being 

 considered the choicest dainty amongst all sea-fowl." It does not breed off the coast of Norway, 

 but visits the fishing-grounds off the coast of Bergen, and is well known to the fishermen on the 

 Storeggen fishing-grounds off Aalesund ; but Mr. Collett informs me it is seldom that specimens 

 are brought in. One, however, now in the Christiania University Museum, was killed in the 

 Christianiafjord in the autumn of 1870; and another, in Mr. Aall's collection, was obtained at 

 Lyngor, near Tvedestrand, in August 1867, besides which one or two were shot off Aalesund. 

 It has not been met with in the Baltic; but KjserbSlling says that it is found some distance at 

 sea off the west coast of Denmark ; and it occurs during severe storms from the north-west off 

 the coasts of Germany, Holland, and Belgium, but is of rare occurrence there, as well as off the 

 coast of Picardy, though it is met with not unfrequently on the western shores of France, and 

 Jaubert and Barthelemy-Lapommeraye record its occurrence off Provence. Professor Barboza 

 du Bocage states that it is not unfrequently met with off the Portuguese coasts ; and Colonel Irby 



