5 1 4 LARIJDJE. 
NA TA TORES. 
LARI DJI. 
SHEARWATER PETREL. 
MANX PETREL. 
PtTFFlNUS ANGLORUM. 
PLATE CXLIV. FIG. I. 
Like the rest of the petrels, these birds are seldom 
seen on wing. They breed in small numbers on the 
Western Islands, upon St. Kilda and the adjoining rocks, 
in Orkney, Shetland, and upon Annet an island of the 
Scilly group off the coast of Cornwall. Though con¬ 
stantly on the watch during my stay in Shetland, I oii\y 
once saw the birds at large, and suppose that they must, 
like the stormy petrel, feed principally during the night. 
They breed in the most wild and inaccessible rocks 
which bound these lonely islands, in holes, much in the 
same manner as the puffin, but are more careful in their 
selection, and make use of those only which, being over¬ 
grown at the mouth with tufts of grass, are more difficult 
to discover. They make a slight nest of dry plants, 
usually about the depth of a man's arm from the en¬ 
trance of the hole, although sometimes a good deal be¬ 
yond his reach. They lay one egg only, so like those of 
our domestic fowl, that, were it not for the beautiful tex¬ 
ture of the shell, and the musky smell,—which is, how¬ 
ever, less in the eggs of this species than in those of the 
