LEVANTINE SHEARWATER 557 
is found on many islands off the west coast of Africa, 
whence it can be traced across the Equator into the South 
Atlantic.' 
DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERS. 
PLUMAGE. Adult male nuptial—Top of head, back of 
neck, back, scapulars, wings, rump, and upper tail-coverts, 
black; sides of neck and back of cheeks, mottled with ashy- 
brown ; flanks, patched with brown; outer under tail- 
coverts, marked with brown externally ; chin, throat, breast, 
abdomen, and rest of under tail-coverts, white. 
Adult female nuptial.—Similar to the male plumage. 
Adult winter, male and female-—Similar to the nuptial 
plumage. 
Immature, male and female.— Resembles the adult 
plumage. 
Beak. Blackish-brown, paler at the base; hooked at 
the extremity. 
Freer. Flesh-colour; outer toes, darker. 
Ir1DEs. Blackish-brown. 
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
TOTAL LENGTH ... oe eal) in. 
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EGG 24. x 1°65 in 
LEVANTINE SHEARWATER. Puffinus yelkouanus (Acerbi). 
The Levantine Shearwater, which inhabits the Mediter- 
ranean, and is the amé damnée of the Bosphorus, has been 
taken on several occasions off our coasts. The following 
captures may be mentioned:— One obtained at Torbay, 
Devon, August, 1875; a second from Plymouth Sound, 
about the same time. Both these are in the British 
Museum (Harting, Handb. Brit. Birds, 2nd Edit., p. 310). 
! In the British Museum there is a specimen from Brazil, presented 
by Mr. Saunders (Cat. Birds. Brit. Mus., vol. xxv, p. 379). 
