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its note. Carew puts it between “ Murres” and “Curlewes,” and 
reckons it among tho “Citizens of the Ayre” which “serve for 
food to us.” In the same list he distinguishes the Pulfyn, and 
says it “hatcheth in holes of the clyffe.” 
On misty nights the “ Crews ’’ get tlie more bewildered of tho 
two, and Mr. Vingoe says that one flew with such force against 
St. Agnes lighthouse as to break the glass. Adjoining St. Agnes 
is an island called Cugh, and this, if the wind be from tho west, 
is in tho lino of flight of tho Shearwaters. Captain White 
informed us that thirty-six had been picked up there in a day, and 
on proceeding to tho spot we found twenty, besides tho remains of 
five more. Some had broken necks, and most of them exhibited 
tho marks of a violent blow, as if they had been dashed against 
tho rocks.* hTo doubt this was tho case, and probably tho 
previous Monday night. May 9th, had been a fatal one to some of 
them, as it was very misty ; and a serious collision between two 
vessels took place off the Land’s End. 
Our boatmen were of opinion that at Annet the Shearwaters 
made their own holes, and not Kabbit.s.+ It would really ro([uiro a 
series of section diagrams to give a true idea of the twists and 
turns which some of tho holes take ; but tho accoiupan 3 'ing 
woodcut shows two of the simplest drawn from memory, and these 
Entrance tn /horoir. 
* Bishop Stanley mentions two Shearwaters colliding with such force a.s 
to kill one another (‘ History of Birds,’ p. 82), and one of them is in the 
Norwich Museum, to which it was pre.sented by the late Bishop. See also 
Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc. vol. iv. p. 221. 
t Trofe-ssor Newton says Shearwaters make their own holes in St. Kilda 
(A. N. in lift.). 
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