M A N X S H E A R W A T E R.
MANX PETREL. MANX PUFFIN. SHEARWATER PETREL. SKUAHE. LYRE.
Puffinus Anglorum, FLEMING. SELBY. GOULD.
PmeUaria puffinus, PENNANT. MONTAGU.
Proccllaria Anglorum, JENYNS. TF.MMINCK.
Puffinus— ? Anglorum—Of the English.
T H E present, as a European species, has occurred in the Mediterranean,
Norway, the Islands of Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Iceland,
Holland, Italy, and France. In America it extends in its range from
Labrador, down by Newfoundland to the south, through the States.
In Asia, it has been noticed in Asia Minor. It is included also
among the birds of Madeira.
It was formerly very plentiful in the Isle of Man, whence its
name.
The Manx Shearwater breeds in the Hebrides, at St. Kilda and
Soa; also in Zetland, at Foula and l i s t . In Orknev, in the Islands
of Fapa West ray and Waas.
In England, on Anuet, one of the Scilly Islands, and on the coast
of Wales, near St. David's. Many which are on sale in Leadenhall
market, in the spring of the year, are taken in rabbit-warrens in
Wales, Air. John Dutton being my informant.
I n Yorkshire specimens of this bird arc occasionally found along
the coast in the autumn. In Nottinghamshire one was picked up
alive in the parish of Trowell, the latter end of October, 1809, as
the Rev. Charles Hudson hits written me word. It has also occurred
near Yarmouth, hut rarely. One or two off the Northumbrian coast,
near the Fern Islands. Specimens have been seen off the shores of
Dorsetshire and Devonshire, not very unfrequently. In Oxfordshire
one w a s taken alive near Chipping Norton, September, 1839.
I n Ireland they a t e summer visitants, near Dublin and other parts,