DUSKY PETREL. 



NATATORES. 



659 



LAHID^E. 



THE DUSKY PETREL. 



Puffinus obscurus. 



Puffinus obscurus, Dusky Petrel, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 

 Procettaria obscura, Petrel obscur, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. pt. ii. p. 808. 

 Puffinus obscurus, Puffin pt. iv. p. 510. 



BONAP. Cons. Syst. Ornith. p. 203. 



obscur, DEGLAND, Ornith. Europ. vol. ii. p. 366, 



THE interesting Petrel figured above, and new, as I 

 believe, to the British Islands, was brought to me by B. 

 Blackburn, Esq., of Yalentia Harbour, in the county of 

 Kerry ; who afterwards sent me the following note of its 

 occurrence : 



" The Petrel which I left with you this morning flew 

 on board a small sloop off the island of Valentia, on the 

 south-west coast of Ireland, late in the evening of the 

 llth of May, 1853. Mrs. Blackburn had never observed 

 it before on our coast, and we concluded it to be the Puf- 

 finus obscurus of Temminck and Gould. 



" It made no attempt either to run or fly away, and 



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