PROCELLARINA. 421 
Genus, Oceanites, Keys and Bias. 
Bill short and slender, curved at the tip; tail forked; wings 
long, second quill longest; tibia partially naked. 
Oceanites oceanica, Kuhl. 
976.—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 313. 
WILSON’S PETREL. 
Length, 7:12; wing, 6:25 ; tarsus, 1:4; bill at front, 0°5. 
Bill dull black ; irides blackish ; legs and feet polished black. 
General plumage deep sooty-brown, or brownish-black, blackish 
on the primaries, tertiaries, occiput, nape and tail; secondary 
greater-coverts and latest secondaries wood-brown or pale hair- 
brown, narrowly margined towards the tips with yellowish-white ; 
upper tail-coverts, flanks and bases of some of the external 
under tail-coverts pure white ; a few of the feathers of the lower 
abdomen narrowly fringed with white. 
Wilson’s Petrel is not uncommon along the coast. 
Genus, Puffinus, Briss. 
Bill longer than head, slender, compressed at point; lower 
mandible deflected at tip; nostrils in a double tube, extending 
along the upper surface of the bill; tarsus moderate, compress- 
ed; toes three in front, rather long; hind-toe rudimentary ; first 
quill longest. 
Puffinus persicus, Hume. 
976bis.—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 313. 
THE PERSIAN SHEARWATER. 
Length, 13 ; wing, 7 ; tarsus, 1°5; bill from forehead, 1°3. 
Bill dusky-brown, bluish at base; irides brown ; legs and feet 
white, tinged with pink and lavender, with claws, margin of 
web, exterior of foot, and outer-toes, and part of ridge of mid-toe, 
black. 
Female: The head and nape deep sooty-brown, the whole of 
the rest of the upper parts blackish-brown, almost, if not quite, 
black on the primaries, rump, upper tail-coverts and tail; upper 
portion of the lores mingled dusky-brown and whitish; lower 
portion of the lores, and the whole of the chin and throat, 
as far as the eyes on either side, breast, abdomen, vent and 
shorter central lower tail-coverts, pure white; a white line 
about 0:06 wide encircles the eye, and extends backwards 
from the posterior angle as a narrow white streak for a 
distance of 0°35 to 0°4 inches; below this the ear-coverts are 
dusky-brown, slightly mingled with whitish ; the white line below 
the eye is only separated from the white of the throat by a hair 
line of greyish-brown ; the sides of the neck and breast where 
the brown of the upper meets the white of the lower parts, 
are somewhat paler brown, slightly intermingled with white ; 
