624 



NA TA TORES. 



LARIDjE. 



LARIDM. 



THE GREATER SHEARWATER. 



Puffinus major. 



is cinereus, Cinereous Shearwater, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 528. 



Procellaria puffinus, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 284. 



fuliginosus, 285. 



Puffinus cinereus, EYTON, Rare Brit. Birds, p. 49. 



fuliginosus, Dusky 51. 



cinereus, Cinereous GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xix. 



major, Puffin majeur, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. iv. p. 507. 



PUFFINUS. Generic Characters. Bill as long, or longer than the head, 

 slender, upper mandible compressed and curved towards the point ; under mandible 



