OCEANITES. PUFFINUS. 197 



Genus OCEANITES, Keyserling $ Blasius, Wirbelth. 

 Eur. p. 238 (1840). 



Oceanites = wfcecm'rj/s, living on the open sea, wiceai/o's. 



Oceanites oceanicus. WILSON'S PETREL. 



Procellaria oceanic a, Kuhl, Beitr. Zool. p. 136 

 (1820). 



Tlialassidroma wilsonii, Macg. v. p. 456. 



Thalassidroma oceanica, Gray, p. 225. 



Thalassidroma wilsoni, Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 639; id. ed. 3, iii. 



p. 667. 



Procellaria wilsoni, Harting, p. 178. 

 Oceanites oceanicus, Dresser, viii. p. 505. 

 Wilson's Petrel, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 516. 



Oceanicus = of the open sea, wfceai/o's. 



A rare visitor to the coasts of England, principally to the 

 British Channel. It inhabits the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific 

 Oceans. 



Genus PUFFINUS, Brisson, Ornith. vi. p. 131 (1760). 



Puffinus, the latinized form of the English " Puffin ; " from " to puff" = to 

 blow in an intermittent way, thence " to swell," French " boujfer ;" from the 

 swollen bill of Fratercuta arctica. Brisson seems to have applied the name to 

 the Shearwater, from Willughby calling it the " Puffin of the Isle of Man." 



Puffinus anglorum. MANX SHEARWATER. 



Procellaria anglorum, Temminck, Man, d'Orn. ii. 

 p. 806 (1820). 



Puffinus arcticus, Naum. x. p. 618. 



Puffinus anglorum, Macg. v. p. 441; Hewitson, p. 514; 

 Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 631; id. ed. 3, iii. p. 654: Gould, 

 v. pi. 84; Harting, p. 79; Dresser, viii. p 517. 



The Manx Shearwater, Yarr. ed. l,iii. p. 508; Gray, p. 223. 



Anglorum = of the English, Angli. 



Resident. Breeding on the coasts of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, especially on the western side, from the Scilly 



