PUFFINUS ANGLORUM. 



without the brown shading of P. yelkouanus. The under tail-coverts are white, but 

 they often show a slight brown mottling, approaching those of the latter species. 



P. anglorum is found in all the British seas, but is chiefly restricted, during the 

 breeding season, to certain rocks and islands on the western coasts of Great Britain. It 

 breeds in the Orkney and Shetland Islands in April and May, as well as on the Inner 

 and Outer Hebrides. Mr. Howard Saunders states that, until a comparatively recent 

 date, it was abundant on the " Calf " of Man {Manual Brit. Birds, 2nd ed., p. 741). 

 The Manx Shearwater also nests on some of the islands off the coast of Wales, as well as 

 on the Scilly Islands. In Ireland, according to Mr. R. J. Ussher, it breeds on the 

 headlands and islands of Donegal, Antrim, Dublin, Wicldow, Wexford, Kerry, and 

 Mayo, and probably in other counties. In Heligoland, according to Gatke, it was 

 formerly plentiful, but of late years it has entirely disappeared. 



Another breeding place of P. anglorum is on the Faeroes, and it has been recorded 

 as an incidental visitor to the coasts of Norway. It occurs also in some numbers 

 in the south-west of Iceland, and has been noted from South Greenland. 



I obtained two specimens from the Azores in May, when it was apparently breeding 

 in the cliffs ; the birds were known there as " Stapagardo," but P. anglorum was not so 

 plentiful as P. kuhli (Ibis, 1866, p. 104). 



Mr. J. J. Dalgleish records this bird from Madeira (Pr. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edinb., XI., 

 p. 27), and Mr. Meade- Waldo states that the "Pardela" is not uncommon, in winter, 

 in the vicinity of the Canary Islands, where, however, it does not come near the 

 coast (Ibis, 1893, p. 206). The Rothschild Collection contains a specimen from 

 Tenerife, procured by Ramon Gomez, which is undoubtedly the true P. anglorum. 



In North America it is of rare occurrence, single individuals only having been met 

 with at sea off the coasts of Maine and Nova Scotia. 



Mr. Howard Saunders states that the species reaches the coast of Brazil in its 

 winter migration, and that he presented a specimen, obtained from there, to the 

 British Museum. The only example, however, that I can discover in the National 

 Collection, given by Mr. Saunders, is simply labelled " Barranca Grande " (Big Gorge), 

 without any further information as to locality. 



The accounts of the habits of this Shearwater published in many works on British 

 Ornithology, show that they do not differ materially from those of other members of 

 the genus. The birds are crepuscular, remaining in their burrows nearly the whole 

 of the day, and coming out in small parties after sunset, frequently gathering hi larger 

 bodies on the sea, when as many as 300 may be seen together. 



The nest is merely a slight structure of dry grass placed at the end of a burrow. 

 A single white egg is laid, of a smooth texture. Specimens in the British Museum 

 measure : Axis, 2.4 inches ; diam., 1.6. 



Adult female. General colour above sooty-black, the head like the back ; wings 

 and tail also sooty-black ; lores, sides of face and ear-coverts blackish, like the crown ; 



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