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GENUS, Oceanites, Keys and Bias. 



Bill short and slender, curved at the tip ; tail forked ; wings 

 long, second quill longest ; tibia partially naked. 



Oceanites oceanica, KuU. 



976. Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 313. 



WILSON'S PETREL. 



Length, 7'12 ; wing, 6'25 ; tarsus, 1'4 ; bill at front, 0'5. 



Bill dull black ; hides blackish ; legs and feet polished black. 



General plumage deep sooty-brown, or brownish-black, blackish 

 on the primaries, tertiaries, occiput, nape and tail; secondary 

 greater-coverts and latest secondaries wood-brown or pale hair- 

 brown, narrowly margined towards the tips with yellowish-white ; 

 upper tail-coverts, flanks and bases of some of the external 

 under tail-coverts pure white ; a few of the feathers of the lower 

 abdomen narrowly fringed with white. 



Wilson's Petrel is not uncommon along the coast. 



GENUS, Puffinus, Briss. 



Bill longer than head, slender, compressed at point ; lower 

 mandible deflected at tip ; nostrils in a double tube, extending 

 along the upper surface of the bill ; tarsus moderate, compress- 

 ed ; toes three in front, rather long ; hind-toe rudimentary ; first 

 quill longest. 



Puffinus persicus, Hume. 



976bis. Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 313. 



THE PERSIAN SHEARWATER. 



Length, 13 ; wing, 7 ; tarsus, 1'5 ; bill from forehead, 1'3. 



Bill dusky-brown, bluish at base ; irides brown ; legs and feet 

 white, tinged with pink and lavender, with claws, margin of 

 web, exterior of foot, and outer-toes, and part of ridge of mid-toe, 

 black. 



Female : The head and nape deep sooty-brown, the whole of 

 the rest of the upper parts blackish-brown, almost, if not quite, 

 'black on the primaries, rump, upper tail-coverts and tail ; upper 

 portion of the lores mingled dusky-brown and whitish ; lower 

 portion of the lores, and the whole of the chin and throat, 

 as far as the eyes on either side, breast, abdomen, vent and 

 shorter central lower tail-coverts, pure white ; a white lino 

 about 0'06 wide encircles the eye, and extends backwards 

 from the posterior angle as a narrow white streak for a 

 distance of 0'35 to 0*4 inches ; below this the ear-coverts are 

 dusky-brown, slightly mingled with whitish ; the white line below 

 the eye is only separated from the white of the throat by a hair 

 line of greyish-brown ; the sides of the neck and breast where 

 the brown of the upper meets the white of the lower parts, 

 are somewhat paler brown, slightly intermingled with white; 



