  I had many of these birds within 10 or
15 yards & noted their color & markings
accurately as follows: cap slaty; back & wings
plain, faded brown; primaries black or nearly
so with much white near the tips; perhaps
a narrow white tipping on secondaries also, upper
& under tail coverts brown; tail dark brown
perhaps blackish with a broad white sub-
terminal band the dark tip about an inch
wide. Under parts, with a broad, conspicuous
collar around hind neck, pure white; brown
of back [?]ding down each side of breast
in a narrow bar. Bill long, slender, black,
Slaty cap descending just below eye; sides of
head below this white. Bird evidently a
small Puffinus probably P. anglorum.
Saw one small Mother Cary's among the hordes
of Puffini. 
   P. M. foggy & calm. Large school Porpoises
two Mother Cary's. No Puffini after 11 A.M.
Made Queenstown at 11.30 P.M. Tug came
out for passengers & luggage. Three newspapers
for two shillings.
  June 20 Reach Liverpool.
  Cloudless but with a dense haze or
thick fog which obscured everything more than
a few hundred yards off. Very warm.
  We spent the forenoon in the Irish Channel.
No breeze, no swell whatever, no birds except 
a few Herring Gulls following the steamer. A
dozen or more collected quickly when some
food was thrown over.
  Crossed the bar about 11 P.M. and landed
about 3 P.M. the steamer anchoring in
mid-stream & sending the passengers &
luggage ashore in a tug. Gulls seen in
increasing numbers all the way up the
[?] very tame flying over the tugs
and even entering the narrowest docks.
Near the landing they were about as numerous
as in Boston Harbor in winter from ten
to 30 or 40 being constantly in sight.
I recognized four species the Herring, Lesser
Black-head, Less Black-back and Mew
Gull. The Little Black-heads outnumbered
all the other[s] combined in fact were by