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PUFFINUS ANGLORUM. THE MANX SHEAR- 

 WATER. 



LYRE. LYRIE. SCRABE. SCRABER, 



Procellaria Puffinus. Lath. Ind. Omith. II. 824. 



Shearwater Petrel. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. 



Petrel Manks, Procellaria Anglormn. Temm. Man, d'Ornith. II, 806 ; 



IV. 509. 

 Manks Shearwater. Puffinus Anglorum. Selby, Illustr. Brit. Birds, II. 529. 

 Puffinus Anglorum. Bonap. Comp. List, 64. 



Length about fifteen inches ; hill about an inch and two- 

 thirds long, slender ; tarsus an inch and three-fourths ; tail 

 rounded ; upper parts deep greyish-black, lower white ; sides 

 of the neck indistinctly barred with grey and white. 



Male. — This species, much smaller than the last, and in 

 form and hahits intimately allied to the next group, has the 

 body rather slender and elongated ; the neck of moderate 

 length ; the head ovate, anteriorly narrowed. Bill about the 

 length of the head, rather slender, somewhat compressed, 

 nearly straight, w4th the tips decurved ; the upper mandible 

 with the nostrils approximated, the sides convex, the edges 

 sharp and slightly inflexed, the unguis stout, decurved, 

 rather acute ; lower mandible with the angle very long and 

 narrow, the dorsal line short and decurved, the sides convex, 

 the edges sharp and inflected, the tip decurved. 



The eyes and aural apertures rather small. The legs of 

 moderate length ; tibia with a small portion bare ; tarsus 

 much compressed, edged before and behind, with a series of 

 large scales on the inner side. Hind toe a slight knob, with 

 a deflexed conical claw ; anterior toes rather long, the third 

 and fourth about equal, the membranes striated, with the 



