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PUFFINUS CINEREUS. THE CINEREOUS 

 SHEARWATER. 



Fig. 88. 



Cinereous Shearwater. PufSnus cinereus. Selby, Illustr. Brit. Ornith. IT. 



528. 

 Procellaria PuSiniis, and P. fuliginosa. Jonyns. Brit. Vert. Auini. 284, 285. 

 Puffin majeur ou arctique. Puffinus major. Temm. Man. d'Omith IV. 507. 

 Puffinus cinereus. Bonap. Comp. List, 64. 



Length about eighteen inches ; hill about two inches long ; 

 tarsus two inches and a little more ; tail graduated ; upper 

 parts brown ; the head and nape tinged with grey ; wifig- 

 covet'fs ash-grey ; j^rimary quills and tail-feathers blackish- 

 broion ; loioer parts white ; or, the upper parts deep brown ; 

 the lower brownish-grey. 



This species, of which only a very few individuals have 

 been obtained in England, was introduced to the British 

 Fauna by Mr. Selby, a specimen from the coast of Northum- 

 berland having come into his possession. About the same 

 time another, killed on the Yorkshire coast, was procured by 

 Mr. Strickland, who subsequently met with a second. Some 



