198 PROCELLABIID^E. 



Islands to the Shetlands. It inhabits the seas and coasts 

 of Eastern North America and "Western Europe. 



Ptiffinus griseus. SOOTY SHEAEWATEE. 

 Procellaria grisea, Gmelin, Syst. Nat.i.p. 564 (1788). 



Puffinus cinereus, Macg. v. p. 438 (partim) . 

 Puffinus obscurus, Harting, p. 176 (partim). 

 Puffinus griseus, Dresser, viii. p. 523. 



G-riseus = grey, in post-classical Latin ; probably borrowed from O. H. G. 

 ffris, the modern German grau, our grey. 



Met with occasionally on the coasts of Great Britain, 

 where it has often been confounded with P. major. Of 

 general oceanic distribution. 



Puffinus major. GEEATEE SHEAEWATEE. 

 Puffinus major, Faber, Prodr. isl. Orn. p. 56 (1822). 



Puffinus cinereus, Macg. v. p. 438 (partim) ; Gray, p. 222. 

 Puffinus major, Hewitson,^. 516; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 624; 



id. ed. 3, iii. p. 647; Gould, v. pi. 83; Harting, p. 79; 



Dresser, viii. p. 527. 

 The Greater Shearwater, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 502. 



Major = greater. 



Occurs irregularly in autumn off the coasts of the United 

 Kingdom, principally on the south and west. It inhabits 

 the Atlantic Ocean. 



Puffinus obscurus. DUSKY SHEAEWATEE. 



Procellaria obs^cura, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 559 



(1788). 



Puffinus obscums, Gray, p. 223; Yarr. ed. 3, iii. p. 659; 

 Harting, p. 176. 



Obscurus = dark. 



One was taken in Valentia Harbour, co. Kerry, May 1 1, 

 1853 ; and another was picked up dead in Norfolk, April, 



