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of Ireland, on the 16th of July, 1840, observed three shear- 
waters on wing near to him, which he believed to be of this 
species. He considered them to be of larger size than the 
Manx shearwater, whose appearance on wing was familiar to him, 
from his having often seen it when crossing the sea from Dublin 
to English ports. In plumage, too, they were remarked to be 
somewhat different from that bird. 
On the 24th of August, 1849, Mr. R. Warren, jun., when hake- 
fishing, on the Maid, about three miles off Cork harbour, saw two 
of the great shearwaters, which he remarked were easily distin- 
guished from the P. anglorum (of which numbers were seen the 
same day) by their larger size and darker colour. 
This species is known only as visiting the coast, and not as 
breeding in any of the British Islands. In Scotland it has 
not been observed (Jard. Macg.) and very few individuals have 
been ascertained to visit the coast of England, with the exception 
of Cornwall, where Mr. Mitchell believes that it “ appears pretty 
regularly every autumn.” He was informed of its being a 
constant visitant in the latter part of autumn to the Scilly Islands. 
The geographical distribution of this shearwater seems yet to be 
very imperfectly known. Even in Iceland, according to Eaber 
(as quoted by Yarrell), it is not known to breed, and is very scarce. 
THE MANX SHEARWATER. 
Puffinus anglorum, Ray. 
Is a regular summer migrant to some parts of the coast. 
Judging from its being enumerated in the scanty catalogues pub- 
lished within about the latter half of the last century, the species 
was then more common on our coasts than it has been of late 
years, though no Irish breeding-station seems to have been known. 
Harris, in his f History of Down* (1744), observes, that “it fre- 
quents the Ardes, and perhaps other coasts of the county.” 
Smith, in his ‘History of the county of Waterford 3 (1745), says, 
f These we have on the coast, but whether they breed here or 
