262 PROCELLARIN^E. PUFFINUS. 



ter with them. The gullet is commonly found to contain 

 oily matter, which the bird disgorges on being seized. Three 

 species are admitted as British. 



316. PUFFINUS ARCTICUS. ARCTIC SHEARWATER. 



Bill of the same length as the head, rather slender, com- 

 pressed, two inches and a third long, yellowish-green, with 

 the tips brownish-black; tarsus two inches and a quarter 

 long ; feet greenish-grey, with the webs flesh-coloured ; tail 

 graduated ; upper parts deep greyish-brown, hind-neck paler 

 and more grey ; primary quills and tail brownish-black ; lower 

 parts greyish-white ; axillaries and lower tail-coverts grey- 

 ish-brown toward the end. 



Male, 20, 45, 2^, 2, 2 T V, T V 



This species, according to M. Temminck, has generally been 

 mistaken for Puffinus cinereus, which inhabits the Mediter- 

 ranean. It is said to be abundant in the Arctic seas, and, 

 according to Mr Audubon, ranges in winter from Canada to 

 the Gulf of Mexico. Several individuals have occurred in 

 England ; but it appears doubtful whether there may not have 

 been some also of Puffinus cinereus ; and at present I have 

 no means of ascertaining. 



Puffinus major, Puffin majeur ou arctique, Temm. Man. 

 d'Ornith. iv. 507. Puffinus cinereus, Aud. Ornith. Biog. iii. 

 555. Puffinus cinereus, Cinereous Shearwater, Selby, Illust. 

 ii. 528. Puffinus arcticus, Arctic Shearwater, MacGillivray, 

 Brit. Birds, v. 



317. PUFFINUS ANGLORUM. MANKS SHEARWATER. 



Bill slender, dusky, at the base dull yellow, an inch and a 

 half long; tarsus an inch and three-fourths, flesh-coloured 

 internally, as are the inner toe and half of the third, the rest 

 black, the webs dingy yellow; all the upper parts glossy 

 brownish-black, the lower white, the sides of the neck and 

 breast barred with grey. The young, according to M. Tem- 

 minck, have all the lower parts of a dark grey colour. 



Male, 16, 32, 9, 1 T \, Hf, 1|, T %. 



This species inhabits the northern coasts of Europe in 

 summer, arriving generally in March, and departing in Sep- 

 tember. It is said to breed in the Shetland and Orkney 

 Islands and in St Kilda, laying a single large white egg, in a 

 hole or fissure of the cliffs. 



Lyrie, Scraber, Shearwater. 



