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Gough ever met with the bird. Though well aware that my friend 

 Mr. J. W. Harris secured a specimen washed up near Mowbray 

 many years since, I never myself set eyes on a Lakeland specimen 

 of the Fulmar until February of the present year [1892]. On 

 the 11th of that month a man named Thomas Peal brought to 

 me in the flesh a Fulmar which he had secured on Rockliffe 

 marsh two days earlier. It was in the finest possible feather 

 and represented the white-breasted form. The body was how- 

 ever the reverse of well nourished. Mr. Thorpe remarked at 

 once that it was a small specimen, and such on comparison it 

 turned out to be. On dissection it proved to be a female, 

 probably a bird of the year. 



MANX SHEARWATER. 



Puffinus anglortcm (Temm.). 



Possessing a more intimate acquaintance with this Shearwater 

 than with any other oceanic species, I have long experienced 

 a sense of regret at its almost entire absence from this region. 

 It is not merely that it does not wander inland like the smaller 

 Petrels. The grievous thing is, that we never enjoy the 

 beautiful gliding flight of this attractive species on the N.W. 

 coast, where it is unknown to our fisher folk. That it occurs 

 in some numbers far out in the Irish Sea there can be no doubt. 

 Dr. Parker has twice obtained derelict specimens near Seascale, 

 where my friend Mr. Whitlock found the remains of a Manx 

 Shearwater in May 1890. The most classical home of this 

 Shearwater was that which once existed on the Calf of the 

 Isle of Man, within view of our own shore. This has long been 

 deserted. Sir William Jardine wrote to T. C. Hey sham in the 

 year 1836 : 'I had almost forgot the Isle of Man. It is nearly 

 nine years since I was there [in 1827], we went as you observe 

 to seek the Hanks' Petrel, but were unsuccessful. The people 

 said that it had certainly left the Calf several years previously, 

 and if any number had been there we should not have missed 

 them. 



