

PUFFINUS. 711 



hite, each feather tipped with sooty brown; secondaries more broadly tipped; 



edian and greater wing coverts with the outer webs and the tips of the 

 nner sooty brown ; remainder of the inner web white ; primaries blackish, 



ith a broad white marginal band on the inner web ; basal two-thirds of tail 

 white, remainder sooty brown ; lower plumage from the chin white ; under tail 

 coverts tipped with sooty brown. 



Length. About 14 inches; tail 4; wing 9; tarsus 1-7; bill from gape r. 

 (Oates.) 



Bill blackish brown ; irides and feet dark brown. (Gould.) 



Hab. Obtained by Mr. Hume in the Straits between Ceylon and the 

 mainland. Oates says it is certain to be found in the vicinity of the Burmese 

 coast at times. 



Gen. PuffinuS. 



Bill longer than the head, slender, compressed at the point ; lower mandible 

 reflected at the tip ; nostrils in a double tube, extending along the under 

 surface of the bill ; tarsus moderate, compressed ; toes three in front, rather 

 long ; hind toe rudimentary; 1st quill longest. 



1414. PuffinuS persiCUS, Hume, Str. F. i. p. 5; v. p. 292; 

 Murray, Hdbk , ZooL, &c., Sind, p. 243; id., Vert. ZooL, Sind, p. 213. The 

 PERSIAN SHEAR-WATER. 



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 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 inch; 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 the breast, where the brown of the upper meets the white 

 of the lower parts, are somewhat paler brown, slightly intermingled with 

 white. The sides, axillaries, flanks, and the lesser under wing coverts next 

 the body, and the whole of the exterior and longer tail coverts are deep 

 brown ; the rest of the lower wing coverts, except just at the edge of the wing, 

 are white, here and there slightly mottled, especially at the edge of the wing, 

 with dusky brown ; the longer axillaries are mottled with white along their 

 bases. 



Bill dusky brown, bluish at base and basal three-fourths of lower mandible ; 

 irides brown ; legs and feet white, tinged with pink and lavender ; claws, 



