Abstract
The Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) rarely visitor to middle Europe already in the 19th century. Holewa (1900) introduced a species for Silesia (before 1899), but nothing more in known, not even his source, and his work was criticized at his time. Nevertheless, he rightly assumed the generic membership as well as did all later authors, Mlíkovský’s (2012) evaluation that H. Holewa mentioned an unknown name “Puffinus anglicus” or that he had mistaken it with the name of the Gull-billed Tern