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breast suffused with a pink blush ; beak brownish red ; legs 

 vermilion ; irides brown. 



In summer plumage the head is black. 



Entire length 10'4 inches; culmen 0*9; wing, carpus to 

 tip, S'8 ; tarsus 0"9. 



Fig. Sharpe and Dresser, B. of Eur. part iv. 



Fam. PROCELLARIID^. 



345. PuFFiNus KuHLii, Boie. Cinereous Shearwater. 



This is probably the species intended by Von Heuglin 

 (Syst. Ueb. p. 68) under the name Nectris macrorhyncha, 

 Heugl., which, he says, is not rare on the Mediterranean coast 

 of Egypt. 



Upper sm'face ashy grey, the feathers slightly edged with 

 lighter grey, especially on the rump, the head darker ; wing 

 dark brown, the greater coverts decidedly lighter margined ; 

 quills and tail blackish brown, with a slight shade of grey; 

 under surface of the body entirely white, with an appearance 

 of ashy grey on the sides of the face and neck ; bill yellowish, 

 darker on the lower mandible, inclining to bluish a little way 

 off the tip ; feet yellowish, web lighter yellow, outer toe 

 darker. 



Total length 20 inches ; culmen 2'05 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 12-8; tail 5-3; tarsus 1-95. 



Fig. Kuhl'sProc. t. 11, 12. 



