Manx shearwater. 163 



Nest. — Nothing has been recorded of the breeding habits of 

 the Great Shearwater. 



Eg-gs. — Doubtless only one. The specimen figured in See- 

 bohm's " Eggs of British Birds " (pi, 20, fig. 6), is probably 

 3t a p^enuine e^ff of the sneries. 



not a genuine egg of the species. 



II. THE MANX SHEARWATER. PUFFINUS PUFFINUS 



Procellaria pufflmis^ Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 213 (1766). 

 Puffinus angloruin, Macgill. Brit. B. v. p. 441 (1852) ; Dresser, 



B. Eur. viii. p. 517, pi. 615 (1876); B. O. U. List. Brit. 



B. p. 197 (1883); Saunders, ed. Yarrell's Brit. B. iv. 



p. 21 (1884); Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 420 (1885); 



Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 719 (1889); Salvin, Cat. B. 



Brit. Mus. XXV. p. 377 (1896). 



Adult Male. — General colour above black, shaded with grey, 

 and with obsolete grey fringes to the feathers of the upper sur- 

 face; wing-coverts like the back, the greater series slightly 

 browner ; quills black, shaded externally with grey, and lighter 

 ashy on the inner webs ; tail black ; head and neck like the 

 back ; the lores and ear-coverts dusky blackish, with a little 

 white below the eye ; cheeks and sides of face and under 

 surface of body, pure white, with blackish spots on the cheeks 

 and blackish lines on the sides of the neck ; the sides of the 

 chest and sides of the upper breast dusky grey, and on the 

 sides of the flanks a few blackish markings ; the lateral under 

 tail-coverts blackish along the outer webs ; under wing-coverts 

 white, as also the axillaries : " bill blackish horn-colour, the 

 sheath of the under mandible greyish ; legs and feet flesh 

 colour, the back of the tarsus, outer toe, and lower outer half 

 of middle toe, black; iris dark brown" {W. R. Ogilvie- Grant). 

 Total length, 14-8 inches; culmen, i'45 ; wing, 9*5; tail, 

 3-15; tarsus, 1-65. 



Adult Female. — Similar to the male. Total length, 14-0 

 inches; wing, 8-8. 



Characters. — The Manx Shearwater belongs to the smaller 

 members of the genus Puffinus^ with a short tail and a wing 



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