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wie auf Skomer oder St. Kilda, haben sie den Rasen so 
unterwiihlt, dass der darauf wandelnde Fuss alle Augen- 
blicke einsinkt.’? But upon what authority these details are 
given, and the statement made that there were several 
stations, is not mentioned. 
In Macpherson and Duckworth’s Birds of Cumberland 
(p. 182) it is stated that when Professor Macpherson, 
visiting as a Commissioner of Northern Lights, inquired 
after the Shearwater at the Calf in 1885, he was told that 
large numbers were still observed in that neighbourhood 
(see below), and the authors suggest from this that the 
species may still possibly breed on some part of the coast 
of Man; nothing further, however, has since been reported 
to justify this surmise. The Manx Shearwater cannot, how- 
ever, be very rare in the Irish Sea. In the summer of 1890 
Mr. Adams had a specimen obtained off our south coast ; 
on August 19 and 25, 1892, according to Mr. Kermode, 
several were shot in Ramsey Bay. On 12th July 1893 I 
picked up a dead specimen at Port Skillion, Douglas. On 
8th August 1895 Mr. Kermode saw a number near the Point 
of Ayre; on 13th July 1905 I observed about six in the 
tideway off Langness. 
On 9th August 1885 ‘a large number of Manx Petrels’ 
is reported at Langness at 3 P.M. 
A few nest on the Wicklow and Dublin coasts, and very 
many on Rathlin Island. It does not breed in south-western 
Scotland, and is rare and irregular on the English side of 
the Irish Sea, but breeds on Bardsey and elsewhere off Car- 
narvonshire. It nests also in Orkney, Shetland, and the 
Outer Hebrides, but appears to be generally decreasing in 
numbers. 
‘8th June 1704.—The Case of John Stevenson, of Balla- 
1 On 26th May 1904 I saw a few close to the Scar Rocks in Luce Bay. 
