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margin of web, exterior^of foot, and outer toe, and part of ridge of mid-toe 

 black. 



Length. pinches; wing 7 ; tarsus 1*5 ; bill from forehead to tip 1-3; 

 from anterior margin of nostril ro6 inches. (Hume, Str. F. i. p. 5.) 



Hab. Sind Coast and the mouths of the Indus, also on the Mekran Coast. 

 Like the Petrel, the Puffin or Shear-water also lives entirely on the sea, except 

 during the breeding season, when holes in rocks are their haunts ; like the 

 Petrels, they feed on floating garbage, fish, Crustacea, &c. 



1415. PuffimiS chlororhynchUS, Lesson, Traite, p. 613 ; Newton, 

 Ibis, 1861, p. 181 ; 1867, p. 359; Legge, B.Ceylon, p. 1054; Oates, B. Br. 

 Burnt, ii. p. 439. The GREEN-BILLED SHEARWATER. 



Whole plumage sooty brown, darkest on the wings and tail ; paler beneath 

 and tinged with glaucous on the chin and throat. 



Irides dusky bill dusky greenish ; legs fleshy white. (Legge.) 



Length. About 15 inches; tail 5-3; wing 1*09; tarsus r8; bill from 

 gape 2. 



Hal. Indian Ocean, breeding in the Mauritius and neighbouring islands, 

 where it deposits its single egg under stones and in burrows. Has been met 

 with on the Coast of Ceylon, and will probably be found to occur in the Bay 

 of Bengal, and the Burmese Coast. 



Pelecanoides urinatrix\s said by Sundevall to have been observed in the Bay 

 of Bengal, but as nothing more is known of it, I do not include it in the 

 Avifauna. The whole of the upper plumage is glossy black, the lesser wing 

 coverts fringed with white, also the secondaries and tertiaries; lower plumage 

 glistening white. 



Length. About 8 inches ; wing 4-8. 



ORDER- -GAVLE. 

 Family, LARID^E, Vig. Lestrid<e, Kaup. 



Bill straight, compressed ; wings long and pointed ; tail long ; tarsi with 

 transverse scutes in front ; hind toe usually short. 



Sub-Family, STERCOCARIN.E.-G. R. Gray. 



Base of bill covered with a cere, tip hooked; ist quill longest; nostrils 

 median. 



Gen. StercOCariUS-- Briss. 

 Keel of bill covered with a bony or membranous cere; ist quill longest. 



