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THE BIRDS OF ESSEX.
me that another was taken on Mr. Gayton's farm at Siward's End, on Sept. 17th
1884. These were probably Manx Shearwaters.
Greater Shearwater: Puffinus major.
An irregular autumn visitor to the British seas. It has, doubt-
less, occurred occasionally on the Essex coast, but I have only one
record.
Mr. Clarke informs me that some twenty years or more ago one shot at Debden
was purchased by Mr. F. Bond.
Fulmar : Fulmarus glacialis.
A rare winter visitor only to Essex, as to the whole of the
British Isles, except when at its breeding stations on the Island of
St. Kilda.
Mr. Clarke mentions (24)
a fine specimen killed at
Chrishall in 1834. This is
still in the Saffron Walden
Museum and is doubtless
the "fine example" men-
tioned by Yarrell (14. iii.
501). Mr. Travis records (44.
i. lxiii) one taken on Nov,
9th, 1879, at Battle's Bridge
by Mr. G. Pavitt, in whose
Collection it now is. Mr.
John Basham, of Maldon,
shot one on St. Peter's Flats
at the mouth of the Black-
water in Feb., 1880 (Fitch)
Mr. Saunders says (37. iv. 2)
that although rare on the east
coast, from Northumber-
land to Essex, " they are by no means uncommon at times on the fishing grounds
about thirty miles out."