. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . ORES. LARID/E. PLATE CCCXVIIL MANX PETREL. PROCELLARIA ANGLORUM. Manx Petrel is frequently met with on the Island ofSt. Kilda, and on most of the Hebrides and Orkney Islands,as well as on the northern coast of Scotland and Ireland ;it visits the Isle of Man, where it was formerly very nu-merous, and also the western coasts of England and Wales. Although an inhabitant of the north, this bird is not sofrequently met with on the shores of Iceland, or the FaroeIsles, as might be expected, but is well known near Heligo-land, and the wester
. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . ORES. LARID/E. PLATE CCCXVIIL MANX PETREL. PROCELLARIA ANGLORUM. Manx Petrel is frequently met with on the Island ofSt. Kilda, and on most of the Hebrides and Orkney Islands,as well as on the northern coast of Scotland and Ireland ;it visits the Isle of Man, where it was formerly very nu-merous, and also the western coasts of England and Wales. Although an inhabitant of the north, this bird is not sofrequently met with on the shores of Iceland, or the FaroeIsles, as might be expected, but is well known near Heligo-land, and the western shores of the Danish Isles. Some specimens of this bird have been obtained in theMediterranean, and it is said that its occurrence out at sea,in the winter, as far as the equator, is not unfrequent; butthis requires confirmation. In America, the Manx Petrel extends from the coast ofLabrador to the most southern provinces of the UnitedStates. The present species passes most of its time on the opensea, where its constant employment is swimming, and partly. MANX PETREL. 187 diving in pursuit of sprats, anchovies, the sepiadte, andother marine productions. It is very amusing to watch aflock of these Petrels thus employed : the birds are seenswimming on the waves, with their heads in the water,all in the same direction, and moving on very rapidly, thehindermost bird always flying up and settling in advance ofthe foremost, like rooks following a plough. Fishermen,when in pursuit of their calling, watch carefully the move-ments of these birds, and, when they see them thus em-ployed, lower their nets with a tolerable certainty of findingthe shoals, of which they are in search, near the surface. The flight of this species is very quick, and almost alwayspursued close above the surface of the waves, which neces-sarily requires great agility in order to escape being over-taken by the undulations of the surface; the diving is per-formed by shooting head foremost under water, in pursuit o
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