PUFFINUS GRISEUS. 



during the summer and autumn, at North Berwick ; near Newbiggin, in Northumberland ; 

 on the coast of Yorkshire, especially off Flamborough ; near Lynn, in Norfolk ; and 

 in the Channel, from Sussex to Cornwall. 



In Ireland individuals have been procured on the coast of Kerry, and in Belfast 

 Lough. Since the publication of the second edition of the " Manual " the Sooty Petrel 

 has been obtained off Dungeness Point, in Kent, on the 14th of October, 1907, being 

 the first record for the county (N. F. Ticehurst, British Birds, I., p. 264, 1908). Mr. 

 Eagle Clarke has also recorded it from Stromness, in the Orkneys (Ann. Scott, Nat. Hist., 

 1903, p. 410), and Mr. Evans from the Forth area (t.c, p. 26). 



The range of P. griseus extends to the Orkneys and Faeroe Islands, and a specimen 

 procured by Mr. H. C. Miiller, in August, 1873, is in the Hargitt CoUection in the 

 British Museum. On the coast of North America it was seen by Colonel Feilden, in 

 company with P. gravis, sixty miles to the south of Cape Farewell, on the 22nd of 

 June, 1875, and he was informed that it was common off the coast of Labrador. It 

 is likewise plentiful in the Bay of Fundy, off the coasts of Nova Scotia and New 

 Brunswick. Mr. Ridgway states that this species is at times very abundant in August 

 off the coast of Massachusetts, and in the latter part of that month, during stormy 

 weather, a large number were driven into Wood's Hole. 



Mr. Ridgway has separated the Sooty Shearwater of the Atlantic, to which he 

 gives the name of P. stricklandi, from that of the Pacific Ocean, which he regards as the 

 true Puffinus griseus (Gmelin). The Pacific bird he compares with P. gravis, but says 

 that it is slightly smaller in its measurements ; the bill is decidedly more slender, and 

 the tarsus and middle toe are nearly of the same length (Water-Birds N. Amer., II., 

 p. 390). Salvia recognised but one species, and in this I agree. 



The western range of P. griseus is given in the " A. 0. U. Checklist " (2nd ed., 

 p. 33) as follows : — " South Pacific, north on the American coast, casually to San 

 Francisco, California." Mr. Loomis (Pr. Calif. Acad. Sci. (2), VI., p. 27, 1896) records 

 the species from Monterey in December and January, and it extends north to Washington 

 State, where Mr. Kobbe (Auk, XVII., p. 349) says that an example was obtained at 

 Fort Canby, at the mouth of the Columbia River. It is said to be abundant near 

 Tillamook Lighthouse, which is about twenty miles south of Cape Disappointment. 

 In the North Pacific P. griseus was obtained by Captain Blakiston and Mr. W. J. Snow 

 on the Kuril Islands, and specimens, procured as far north as Urup, are in the Seebohm 

 Collection. 



P. griseus undoubtedly passes on migration down the coast of North America to 

 the extreme south. Specimens were obtained by Xantus off Cape St. Lucas, in Lower 

 California (Bryant, Pr. Calif. Acad. Sci., (2) II., p. 252, 1889), by Darwin off Corral, 

 in Chile (where Mr. A. A. Lane has also often met with it), while Mr. Nicoll obtained 

 it in Valparaiso Bay, where flocks of hundreds were seen. The Rothschild Collection 

 contains a specimen from San Vicente. Mr. Aplin records examples from off the 



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