158 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Puffinus Iherminieri Lesson 

 Audubon Shearwater 



Puffinus Iherminieri Lesson. Rev. Zool. April 1839. 102 

 Puffinus obscurus DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 288, fig. 294 

 Puffinus auduboni A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 92 



Iherminieri, of Felix Louis L'Herminier 



Description. Above dark brownish black, white below, marked with 

 blackish on flanks and under tail coverts; bill dull leaden blue, blackish 



at tip ; webs and inside of tarsi yellowish, 

 outer sides brownish. 



Length 11-12 inches; extent 26; 

 wing 7 . 5-8 ; tail 4.25, graduated one inch ; 

 bill 1.25; depth of bill .4; gape 1.7; 

 tarsus 1.6; middle toe and claw 1.8. 



The Audubon shearwater, also called 

 Dusky and Little Shearwater, is a south- 

 em species and rarely visits the coast of 

 this State. The only recent record is of 

 a specimen taken in Great South ba}', 



Audubon shearwater. Puffin tislherminieri -. t-»ii , t t a , n^ 



Lesson. From specimen in State Museum, i nat. OppOSltC BcUpOrt, L. 1., AUgUSt I, 1887 



[see Dutcher, Auk, 5:173]. 

 "Its flight, low over the water, is strong and swift, five or six rapid 

 wing beats being followed by a short sail." [Chapman]. According to 

 Giraud and DeKay it is an occasional straggler to the coast of Long Island. 



Puffinus griseus (Gmelin) 

 Sooty Sheanvater 



Porcellaria grisea Gmelin. Systema Naturae. 1788. i: 564 

 Puffinus stricklandi A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 94 



gri'seus, Lat., dark 



Description. Sooty black; under parts slightly grayish; bill and eye 

 blackish. 



Length 16-18 inches; extent 40; wing 11. 5- 12; tail 4; bill 1.75-2; gape 

 2.33; tarsus 2.25; middle toe and claw 2.5. 



