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Family PROCELLARIDA.

This truly oceanic family is but feeb “pres i > Briti i i 1
y amily bly 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 Proce.uaria.
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403. PRrocELUARIA GLACIALIS. : é : ‘ ‘ : : . : Vol. V. Pl. LX XXII.
Fuumar.

Frequents the British seas generally. Breeds on the island of St. Kilda in countless multitudes.

 

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Genus Purrinus.

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Three or four birds of this form frequent the seas of the British Islands, two of which have been figured,

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and there can be no doubt as to the propriety of so doing ; but I may state that there are others occasionally vA

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 WA

‘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 |

 

 

 

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404. Purrinus mason . ; : : ‘ ‘ : é : : Vol. V. Pl. LX XXIII.

 

GREAT SHEARWATER.

 

A bird which almost yearly visits the seas of the Land’s End.

 

405, Purrinus ANGLORUM Vol. V. Pl. LXXXIV. | i WA |
Manx SHEARWATER. HH

Breeds commonly on one or more of the Scilly Islands ; and, as it is also found here in winter, it may be AI Hh

considered a resident species.
Genus AMSTRELATSA. HH
406. AAsTRELATA HAESITATA. HAH
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Capped Petrel. WH |
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Has once been taken in England.