. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . n coast. In Yorkshire one of these birds was taken alive in a fishingnet, at Robin Hoods Bay, near Whitby, in the North was shot by Mr. George Marwood, Jun., of Busby Hall,in Cleveland, at the mouth of the River Tees, in the middleof August, 1828. Another also near Robin Hoods Bay, andone or two near Burlington Quay. One was taken alive inLeeds, October 6th., 1851<, as recorded by Dr. Hobson, in*The Naturalist, volume v., page 144. In Northumberland,one, a young bird, on the coast. W. P. Cocks, Esq. hasrecorded this speci
. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . n coast. In Yorkshire one of these birds was taken alive in a fishingnet, at Robin Hoods Bay, near Whitby, in the North was shot by Mr. George Marwood, Jun., of Busby Hall,in Cleveland, at the mouth of the River Tees, in the middleof August, 1828. Another also near Robin Hoods Bay, andone or two near Burlington Quay. One was taken alive inLeeds, October 6th., 1851<, as recorded by Dr. Hobson, in*The Naturalist, volume v., page 144. In Northumberland,one, a young bird, on the coast. W. P. Cocks, Esq. hasrecorded this species as rare in the neighbourhood of Falmouth,Cornwall, in The Naturalist, vol. i., page 140. He alsowrites me word of two he saw at St. Ives, in the year were seen in Mounts Bay, and three taken; one atNewlyn, near Penzance, in November, 1839; one the previousyear. Thousands are seen some autumns off Looe and specimens have occurred at different times on theDevonshire coast. Mr. Thomas Southwell has informed me that one of these. CINEEEOrS SHEAEWATEE. 125 Shearwaters, in immature plumage, was caught by a boy atthe mouth of the River Ouse, near Lynn, on the 25th. of July, 1S51. 1 T 1 1 i. X. 1 • In Orkney one was procured from the Island ol J^ oula, mthe year 1853, as related in a note to me from Dr. Eaikie,supplemental to the Natural History of Orkney by himselfand Mr. Heddle. Mr. J. J. Watters, Jun., in his Catalogueof the Birds of Ireland, mentions it as occurrmg, but were taken in the autumn of 1839, off Dungarvan birds are of crepuscular or twihght are kept in confinement without difficulty, if suppliedwith suitable food and water. On the ground they walk andrun about with the body near the ground. In flight theyskim close over the surface of the water, whence theirappropriate name. . ^ They feed on fish, sea-worms, and other marine Shearwater is of very plain and dull plumage, andeven in the summer sea
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