NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Pufiinus Iherminieri Lesson 



Audubon Shearwater 



Puffinus Iherminieri Lesson. Rev. Zool. April 1839. 102 

 Puffinus obscurus DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 288, fig. 

 Puffinus auduboni A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 92 



Iherminieri, of Felix Louis L'Herminier 



294 



Description. Above dark brownish l^lack, white below, marked with 

 lilackish on flanks and under tail coverts; bill dull leaden blue, blackish 



at tip; webs and inside of tarsi yellowish, 

 outer sides brownish. 



Length 11-12 inches; extent 26 

 wing 7.5-8 ; tail 4.25, graduated one inch 

 bill 1.25; depth of bill .4; gape 1.7 

 tarsus 1.6; middle toe and claw i.S. 



The Audubon shearwater, also called 

 Dusk}' and Little Shearwater, is a south- 

 ern species and rareh' visits the coast of 

 this State. The only recent record is of 

 a specimen taken in Great South baA", 

 opposite Bell]3ort, L. I., August i, 18S7 

 [see Dutcher, Auk, 5:173]. 

 "Its flight, low over the water, is strong and swift, five or six rapid 

 wing beats being followed b}' a short sail." [Chapman]. According to 

 Giraud and DeKay it is an occasional straggler to the coast of Long Island. 



Audubun shearwater. P u.l f i n it s 



Lesson. Frc^m specimen in State Museum 

 size. 



Iherminieri 

 1 nat. 



Puffinus griseus (Gmelin) 

 Sooty SJicancatcr 



Porcellaria grisca Gmelin. Systema Naturae. 1788. i: 564 

 Puffinus stricklandi A. O. V . Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 94 



gri'sens, Lat., dark 



Description. Sooty black; tmder parts slightly grayish; bill and eye 

 blackish. 



Length 16-18 inches; extent 40; wing 11. 5-12; tail 4; bill 1.75-2; gape 

 2.33; tarsus 2.25; middle toe and claw 2.5. 



