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PUFFINUS ANGLORUM— RAY. 



MANKS SHEAEWATEE. 



Fuffinus anglorum, Bonap, 



Shearwater Petrel, Nuttall, 



hearwater PufEnus cugloraro, Auc " 



Spec,,'' m .;• — Bill greenish-black, very slender, length 

 one inch and three quarters ; tarsi about one inch and three quar- 

 ters ; wing reaching' beyond the tail feathers ; tibia grayish black, 

 marked with cull orange, webs pa".o yellow upper parts glossy 

 black.; beneath white. Length fifteen inches. 



This, like the preceding, is with us an accidental visitor. In 

 its habits, it is nearly allied to the Petrels. It spends most of its 

 time at sea, and is said to inhabit the Arctic sea of both continents. 



According to Mr. Audubon, this species is n t ui common off the 

 coast of Maine during summer. Breeds en Sable Island, Nova 

 Scotia, and ranges at tines to great distances seaward. 



"In the Northern British Islands it is com' 1 en during the breed- 

 kg season. At the south end of the Isle cf Man lies a little islet, 

 divided from Man by a narrow channel, called the Calf of Man, 

 on which are no habitations, but only a cottage or two, lately built. 

 This islet is full cf rabbits, which the Puffins, coming yearly dis- 

 lodge, and build in their burrows They lay but one egg. The 

 old ones, early in the morning, at the break of cay, leave their 

 nests and young, arc. the island itself, and spend the day in fish- 

 ing at sea— never returning except at twilight. They feed the 

 young ones from the contents of their loaded stomachs, during the 

 night. They become extremely fat, and are taken and salted down 

 for keeping and permitted by the Romish Church to be eaten in 

 Lent. 3 '— Bewick' c British Birds. 

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