630 LARID^E. 



with dull white and ash-brown ; legs, toes, and their 

 membranes brownish-yellow. The whole length eighteen 

 inches ; of the wing, from the bend, thirteen inches ; whole 

 length of the bill one inch and seven-eighths, of the tubular 

 portion half an inch; of the tarsus two inches and one- 

 eighth ; of the middle toe and claw two inches and 

 seven-eighths. 



There are specimens in the British Musuem, from South 

 Africa, and known to be the young and adult of the same 

 species, which exactly resemble the two birds here figured. 



M. Temminck says this species breeds by thousands on 

 the banks of Newfoundland. It is probably the Wander- 

 ing Shearwater of Messrs. Audubon and Nuttall. 



