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LARID.E. 
NATATORES. 
LAHIDJE. 
PLATE CCCXVII. 
CINEREOUS PETREL. 
PROCELLARIA CINEREA. 
The Cinereous Petrel is a rare occasional visitant in Great 
Britain, and is possibly identical with tlie wandering shear- 
Avater of Audubon. 
Some few occurrences of this species in Britain are on 
record, the first of Avliich is noticed by Selby, who obtained 
a young bird on the coast of Northumberland. 
This species bears a great resemblance to the Manx 
petrel, for which it has no doubt been often mistaken, nor 
does it appear to have been known to visit these islands with 
any sort of regularity until after the publication of Dr. 
Edward Moore’s catalogue of the Birds of Devon had 
awakened interest on the subject. 
The Cinereous Petrel is said to be very well known to 
the inhabitants of the Scilly Islands, where it is a regular 
visitant in the latter part of autumn. It is also met with, 
usually about the same season, off the coast of Cornwall, es¬ 
pecially about Mount’s Bay. It has also occui-red in Ireland. 
