THE GREATER OR CINEREOUS SHEARWATER. 
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iiuiiierous before bad weather. In a strong wind, however, 
they do not very readily come from the windward. 
It will sometimes suddenly appear in great numbers when 
the lines are being hauled in, and is often so eager for food as 
to allow itself to be caught by hand, under which circum- 
stances it does not vomit oil, as do the Shearwaters and 
Storm l^etrels. Occasionally it is so bold as even to snatch 
morsels of food out of the boat itself. No part of the fish 
comes amiss to it, but it greatly prefers the liver, a scrap of 
which it will see a very long way off, and very often it will 
not care to touch anything else, except any oil which may 
chance to be about, the sipping which up from the surface of 
the water affords it great pleasure. 
The faculties of the bird appear keen enough. Not a single 
Fulmar may be in sight, but let the bait be thrown out, and 
they will come in numbers, especially in the early morning, 
even in a thick fog ; whence the men say they are guided by 
the scent. When a large morsel falls to its share, the bird sits 
in the water and tears it; but a small piece is either swallowed 
at once or carried away, the bird seldom eating otherwise than 
while sitting in the water, even alighting for the purpose. It 
is said that the Fulmar never dives. Adult birds in full 
plumage, — that is, with the pure white head and under parts, — 
are comparatively scarce at all times. Two very fine birds in 
this state, left hanging up, caused a couple of large greasy 
marks upon the wall, so different the condition of their 
snowy plumage from that of the Gulls or of the white-breasted 
Skuas. 
THE GEEATEE OE CINEEEOUS SHEAEWATEE. 
Pnjffinus cinereus. 
On the 10th of June 1870, Eobert Nicolson brought me a 
specimen of the Cinereous Shearwater, shot at the haaf a day 
or so before. He says that although he has seen others, they 
