BIRDS OF NEW YORK 



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Puffinus borealis Cory 



Cory Shearwater 



Puffinus borealis Corv. N. 0. C. Bui. April 188 1. 6:84 



A. b. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. ^'o. 88 



pufj'inus from Eng. puffin; bored' lis, Lat., northern 



Description. Brownish ash, tipped with white on neck and upper 

 tail coverts ; white below ; under eyehds and under tail coverts mostly white ; 

 bill yellowish. 



Length 20.5 inches; wing 14.5; tail 6.5; bill 2.25; depth of bill .75; 

 tarsus 2.2; middle toe and claw 2.9. 



The Cor}' shearwater was first described from a specimen taken on Cape 

 Cod, Chatham Island, October 11, 1880 [see N. O. C. Bui. 6: 84]. Xtomerous 

 specimens have since been taken on the coasts of Massachusetts and Long 

 Island. From the latter part of September till November 1886, this Shear- 



Cory shearwater. Puffinus borealis Cory. From specimen in .-American Museum of Natural History, ? nat. size 



