284 AVES NATATORES. [PROCKLLARIA. 



GEN. 111. PROCELLARIA, Linn. 

 (1. PROCELLARIA, Vig.) 



307. P. glacialis, Linn. (Northern Fulmar.) White ; 

 back and wings hoary ash : bill and legs yellow. 



P. glacialis, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. n. p. 802. Fulmar, Mont. 

 Orn. Diet, fy Supp. Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. n. p. 239. Fulmar 

 Petrel, Selb. Illust. vol. n. p. 525. pi. 102. 



DIMENS. Entire length seventeen inches : length of the bill (from the 

 forehead) one inch seven lines, (from the gape) one inch nine lines and 

 a half; of the tarsus one inch ten lines ; of the tail five inches ; from the 

 carpus to the end of the wing twelve inches. 



DESCRIPT. (Adult.) Head, neck, rump, tail, and all the under parts, 

 pure white : back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and secondary quills, bluish 

 ash ; primaries dusky gray : tail rounded at the tip : bill yellow ; the 

 nasal tube tinged with orange : irides and legs yellowish. (Young of the 

 year.) " All the parts of the body pale gray tinged with brown ; the 

 feathers on the back and wings tipped with deeper brown: primary 

 quills and tail-feathers of one uniform tint of brownish gray : before the 

 eyes an angular dusky spot: bill and legs yellowish ash." TEMM. (Egg.) 

 Dirty yellowish white: long. diam. two inches ten lines; trans, diam. 

 two inches. 



Not uncommon in some of the islands off the North of Scotland, lout 

 very rarely seen in the southern parts of Britain. Has been killed on 

 the coast of Durham, as well as, in a single instance, in South Wales. 

 Breeds in St. Kilda, and is said to lay one egg in the holes of rocks. 

 Habits very oceanic : seldom resorts to land, except for the purpose of 

 nidification. Food, fish, the flesh of whales, and other animal matter. 



(2. PUFFINUS, Ray.) 



308. P. Puffinus, Linn. (Cinereous Shearwater.) 

 Bill two inches long : tarsus one inch ten lines : tail conical. 

 TEMM. 



P. Puffinus, Temm. Man. &0rn. torn. n. p. 805. Cinereous Shear- 

 water, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. xin. part i. p. 227. Selb. Illust. 

 vol. n. p. 528. pi. 102*. 



DIMENS. Length eighteen inches. TEMM. 



DESCRIPT. "Head, back part of the neck, and the upper plumage, 

 blackish brown, with the margins and tips of the feathers of the scapu- 

 lars lighter : throat, lower part of the neck, and the whole of the under 

 plumage, deep ash-gray, with a tinge of broccoli-brown : quills and tail 

 brownish black : legs having the outer part of the tarsus deep gray ; the 

 inner part, and webs, yellowish." SELB. 



Mr. Selby informs us that he has lately obtained an individual of this 

 species on the coast of Northumberland. It has not been noticed by 

 any other British author. Possibly, however, it may have been con- 

 founded with the P. Anglorum, which it is said closely to resemble. 

 According to Temminok, it is common in the Mediterranean and on the 

 roast of Spain. Habits unknown. 



