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General Distribution. The Sooty Shearwater breeds in 

 the southern Hemisphere, on the coasts and islands of 

 New Zealand and on the Chatham group, in the months of 

 February and March. It ranges thence eastwards to the 

 coast of Chile, and in summer northwards through the 

 Pacific to California, south Alaska, and the Kurile Islands, 

 while in the Athmtic it visits the east coast of the United 

 States, from South Carolina to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 and the western coast of Europe from Portugal northwards 

 to the Faeroes. 



Puffinus gravis. GREATER SHEARWATER. 



Puffinus gravis O'Reilly, Voy. to Greenland, 1818, 

 p. 140 : Greenland to Newfoundland. 



Puffinus major Faber ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 198. 

 Puffinus gravis O'Eeilly ; Salvin, Cat. Birds B. M. xxv. 189G, 



p. 373 ; Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 737. 

 Gra vis = heavy (big or great). 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Regular Visitor in 

 summer and winter off our coasts, but seldom found near 

 lund. Most frequent off the west and south coasts of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, less frequent on the east coast, but not 

 uncommon off the coast of Yorkshire. 



General Distribution. The only known breeding-station 

 of the Greater Shearwater is Tristan da Cunha, but it 

 probably nests on other islands of the southern Atlantic. 

 It. ranges over the Atlantic Ocean, from southern Green- 

 land, Iceland, and the Faeroes southwards to the Falkland 

 Islands and the Cape of Good Hope. 



Puffinus kuhli. MEDITERRANEAN 



GREAT SHEARWATER. 

 Procellaria ktLhli Boie, Isis, 1835, p. 257 : Corsica. 



Puffinus kuhli Salvin, Cat. Birds B. M. xxv. 1896, p. 375; 

 Butterfield, Bull. B. O. C. xvi. 1906, p. 71. 



Kuldi. named in honour of the German naturalist, Heinrich Kuhl (1797-1821). 



