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309. P. Anglorum, Temm. (Manks Shearwater.) 

 Bill very slender ; one inch seven or eight lines in length : 

 tail rounded ; wings extending a little beyond its extremity : 

 tarsus one inch nine lines. 



P. Anglorum, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. n. p. 806. Shearwater, 

 Mont. Orn. Diet. Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. n. p. 241. Manks 

 Shearwater, Selb. Ittust. vol. n. p. 529. pi. 102. 



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

 forehead) one inch six lines, (from the gape) one inch nine lines ; of the 

 tarsus one inch nine lines ; of the tail three inches seven lines ; from 

 the carpus to the end of the wing nine inches six lines. 



DESCRIPT. Forehead, crown, nape, and all the upper parts, including 

 the wings and tail, deep grayish black, with a slight gloss : sides of the 

 neck mottled with indistinct transverse bars of gray and white : chin, 

 throat, and all the other under parts, pure white: some of the under 

 tail-coverts black on their outer webs : bill yellowish brown at the base, 

 dusky towards the tip : legs gray ; the front of the tarsus, and part of 

 the webs, yellowish white, tinged with flesh-red. (Egg.) White : long, 

 diam. two inches five lines ; trans, diam. one inch nine lines. 



Formerly very abundant during the breeding season in the Calf of 

 Man, but less so of late years. Common in the Orkneys, and some other 

 of the Scotch Islands, to which they resort in February or March. Builds 

 in the interstices of rocks, sometimes in rabbit-burrows, laying but one 

 egg. Food, fish, and marine insects and worms. Habits crepuscular; 

 seldom appearing abroad during the bright sunshine. 



310. P. fuliginosa, Strickland. 



Puffinus fuligiriosus, Proceed, of Zool. Soc. 1832. p. 129. 



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

 forehead) one inch and seven-eighths, (from the gape) two inches and 

 a half; of the tarsus two inches and a quarter; of the middle toe two 

 inches and a half; of the wing twelve inches. STRICKL. 



DESCRIPT. Brown above and below; the wings of a deeper tint: 

 throat faintly tinged with gray : bill of the same colour : tarsi exter- 

 nally, and the outer toes, brown; tarsi internally, and membranes, 

 ochraceous brown. STRICKL. 



A single individual of this species, supposed to be the Procellaria 

 fuliginosa of Kuhl, was shot in the middle of August 1828, at the mouth 

 of the Tees, and is now in the collection of Mr. Arthur Strickland, of 

 Boynton in Yorkshire. It is the only specimen hitherto obtained. 

 Native country and habits unknown. 



(3. THALASSIDROMA, Vig.) 



311. P. pelagica, Linn. (Stormy Petrel.) Black: 

 tail even ; the wings extending a little beyond its tip : 

 tarsus ten lines and a half. 



P. pelagica, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. n. p. 810. Stormy Petrel, 

 Mont. Orn. Diet, fy Supp. Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. n. p. 246. 

 Selb. Illust. vol. n. p. 533. pi. 103. f. 2. 



