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LARIDyE. 
NATATORES. 
LARID/E. 
PLATE CCCXVIIL 
MANX PETREL. 
PROCELLARIA ANGLORUM. 
Manx Petrel is frequently met Avitli on the Island of 
St. Kilda, and on most of the Hebrides and Orkney Islands, 
as well as on tbe northern coast of Scotland and Ireland ; 
it visits the Isle of Man, where it was formerly very nu¬ 
merous, and also the western coasts of England and Wales. 
Although an inhabitant of the north, this bird is not so 
frequently met with on the shores of Iceland, or the Faroe 
Isles, as might be expected, but is well known near Heligo¬ 
land, and the western shores of the Danish Isles. 
Some specimens of this bird have been obtained in the 
Mediterranean, and it is said that its occurrence out at sea, 
in the winter, as far as the equator, is not unfrequent; but 
this requires confirmation. 
In America, the Manx Petrel extends from the coast of 
Labrador to the most southern provinces of the United 
States. 
The present species passes most of its time on the open 
sea, where its constant employment is swimming, and partly 
