218 Dalgleish on North American Birds in Europe. 
2. Seen in abundance off the Lands End. Gould, P. Z. S. Lond., 1839, 
p. 139. May, 1838. 
3. One, Polperro, Cornwall. Couch, Cornish Fauna, II, p. 71. Hart- 
ing, Hand-book Br. B., p. 178. Nov., 1838. 
[4. One, Norfolk. Yarrell, fide Buxton, op. cit., Spring , 1839. This 
occurrence is considered doubtful by Stevenson, author of B. of Norf.] 
5. One, Cumberland. Yarrell, fide Heysham, op. cit. ? 
6. One, believed to have been killed on the Irish coast. Thompson, 
Nat. Hist. Ire., Birds, III, p. 417. (Harting, 1. c.) Aug., 1840. 
7. One, Sussex. Bond, Zool., 1843, p. 148. ? 
8. One, on the Avon, Sutton Benger, Wilts. Marsh, Zool., 1859, p. 
6492. 2 Nov., 1849. 
9. One, Freshwater, Isle of Wight. Delme Radcliffe, Zool., 1864, p. 
8892. Nov., 1863. 
* 10. One, near Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Hele, Notes about Aldeburgli, p. 
176. (Harting, 1. c.) Some years before 1871. 
France. 1. Two, captured by a ship captain in the Gulf of Gascony, 
and received by M. Hardy in the flesh. Degland and Gerbe, Orn. Eur., 
II, 386. Dec., 1854. 
2. One, on the coast of Provence. Dresser, B. of E., pt. 67- 68, fide 
Dr - Jaubert’s Notes on Degland and Gerbe’s Orn. Eur. ? 
3. One, near Arcaclion, Dept, of the Gironde, obtained by M. 
Maimottan, and now in his coll. ? 
4. One, in Provence. Gerbe, Note sur l’apparition accidentelle en 
Provence, du Thalassichome oceanien. (Ext. du Journal le Naturaliste, 
1879.) 1879. 
Obs. — These two last-mentioned occurrences, not hitherto recorded, 
are kindly communicated by Dr. L. Bureau of Nantes, the accomplished 
ornithologist. Degland and Gerbe (1. c.) state that this species is more 
common on the coasts of Spain and Portugal, but the most recent authori- 
ties on the former, Lord Lilford, Colonel Irby, and Mr. Howard Saunders, 
do not mention it, nor does Prof. Barboza du Bocage, in his Birds of 
Portugal. 
Italy. 1. One, near Cagliari, Island of Sardinia. Salvadori, Cat. 
degli Uccelli di Sard., p. 132. (Id., Fauna d’ Italia, Uccelli, p. 301.) In 
the Museum of Cagliari. 
LXI. Fulilnus griseus, Gm. Sooty Shearwater. 
Great Britain. 1. One, mouth of the Thames. Strickland, P. Z. S. 
Lond., 1832, p. 129. Aug., 1828. 
2. Two, off Plymouth. Dresser (fide Gatcombe), B. of E., pt. 61, 
62. ? 
3. One, Mounts Bay, Cornwall, figured by Yarrell as P. major in 
error. Dresser, 1. c. 1838. 
4. One, North Berwick, East Lothian. Proc. R. Phys. Soc. Edin., 
Y, p. — . Oct., 1879. 
