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PufRnus borealis Cory 

 Cory Shearwater 



Puffinus borealis Cory. N. O. C. Bui. April 188 1. 6:84 



A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 88 



puff'inus from Eng. puffin; bored' lis, Lat., northern 



Description. Brownish ash, tipped with white on neck and upper 

 tail coverts ; white below ; under eyelids and under tail coverts mostly white ; 

 bill yellowish. 



Length 20.5 inches; wing 14.5; tail 6.5; bill 2.25; depth of bill .75; 

 tarsus 2.2 ; middle toe and claw 2.9. 



The Cory shearwater was first described from a specimen taken on Cape 

 Cod, Chatham Island, October 11, 1880 [see N. O. C. Bui. 6: 84]. Numerous 

 specimens have since been taken on the coasts of Massachusetts and Long 

 Island. From the latter part of September till November 1886, this Shcar- 



Cory shearwater. Puffinus borealis Cory. From specimen in American Museum of Natural History, ? nat. size 



