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Family PROCELLARID^. 
Tills truly oceanic family is but feebly represented in the British seas, six or seven species being’ all 
that we enumerate ; whereas with those frequenting the waters of the other parts of the globe they amount 
to double that number. 
Genus Procellaria. 
403. Procellaria glacialis .......... Vol. V. PI. LXXXII. 
Fulmar. 
Frequents the British seas generally. Breeds on the island of St. Kllda in countless multitudes. 
Genus Puffinus. 
Three or four birds of this form frequent the seas of the British Islands, two of whieh have been figured, 
and there ean be no doubt as to the propriety of so doing ; but I may state that there are others occasionally 
found here which are not well understood, or have not been properly worked out. Having myself collected 
these birds round the entire globe, I could not fail to remark the vast number of species I met with. In my 
‘ Birds of Australia ’ forty species are either figured or enumerated, and I feel assured that the list may be 
greatly added to on a closer research than I could give of the seas I had at that time (1838—41) the 
opportunity of traversing. 
404. Puffinus major 
Great Shearwater. 
A 
A bird which almost yearly visits the seas of the Land’s End, 
Vol. V. PI. LXXXIII. 
405. Puffinus anglorum .......... Vol. V. PI. LXXXIV. 
Manx Shearwater. 
Breeds commonly on one or more of the Scilly Islands ; and, as it is also found here in winter, it may be 
considered a resident species. 
Genus vEstrelata. 
406. tEstrelata h^sitata. 
Capped Petrel. 
Has once been taken in England. 
