142 GREAT, SOOTY, AND MANX SHEARWATERS. 



Habits and Food. Generally like the last. 

 Nest. June. One brood. 

 Site. Like the last. 

 Materials. Grass, stalks, or moss. 



Eggs. One. White, faintly zoned with rusty red ; rough in 

 texture. 



Family PUFFINID^. 



Subfamily PUFFININ^E. 



GREAT SHEARWATER (Puffinus gravis). 



A fairly regular visitor to our waters, usually in autumn, 

 more especially to the south-west. The upper parts are ash- 

 brown, the feathers having lighter edges on the mantle ; under 

 parts white. Length 19 in. In habits it much resembles the 

 other Petrels ; it dives well, and feeds principally upon squid. 

 Its nest and eggs are unknown. 



SOOTY SHEARWATER (Puffinus griseus). 



Occasionally met with in autumn and winter, but rarer than 

 the last. In appearance it is very dark. Length 18 in. Breeds 

 in the Southern Hemisphere. 



MANX SHEARWATER (Puffinus anglorum). 



Resident. Widely distributed, and not uncommon round 

 our coasts, breeding in considerate numbers, chiefly on various 

 islands off the Irish coast, the west coast of England and 

 Wales, and in great numbers at St. Kilda ; also on many of 

 the Scottish isles. 



Plumage. Head and upper parts sooty black ; under parts 

 white. Sides of neck white, mottled with brown. Bill brownish 

 black. Legs and feet yellowish pink. Length 15 in. Female 

 and young similar. Nestling covered with grey down. 



Language. Said to resemble " kitty-coo-roo," or " cuck- 

 cuck-oo " 



Habits. Like the Storm-Petrel, it is nocturnal, and has a 

 similar kind of flight, viz., that reminding one of the Swallow 

 tribe. It is a capital diver, and procures food often at great 

 depths. It spends its whole time except when it comes to land 

 to breed on the open sea, fair weather and foul. It ejects a 

 green oil. 



Food. Fish, cuttlefish, offal, &c. 



Nest. May or June. One brood. 



