LEVANTINE SHEAEWATEE 557 







is found on many islands off the west coast of Africa, 

 whence it can be traced across the Equator into the South 

 Atlantic. 1 



DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERS. 



PLUMAGE. Adult male nuptial. Top of head, back of 

 neck, back, scapulars, wings, rump, and upper tail-coverts, 

 black ; sides of neck and back of cheeks, mottled with ashy- 

 brown ; flanks, patched with brown ; outer under tail- 

 coverts, marked with brown externally ; chin, throat, breast, 

 abdomen, and rest of under tail-coverts, white. 



Adult female nuptial. Similar to the male plumage. 



Adult winter, male and female. Similar to the nuptial 

 plumage. 



Immature, male and female. Eesembles the adult 

 plumage. 



BEAK. Blackish -brown, paler at the base ; hooked at 

 the extremity. 



FEET. Flesh-colour ; outer toes, darker. 



IKIDES. Blackish-brown. 



AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 



TOTAL LENGTH ... ... ... 15 in. 



WING 9-5 



BEAK . T75 ,, 



TARSO-METATARSUS T75 



EGG 24 x T65 in. 



LEVANTINE SHEARWATER. Puffinus yelkouanus (Acerbi). 



The Levantine Shearwater, which inhabits the Mediter- 

 ranean, and is the ame damnee of the Bosphorus, has been 

 taken on several occasions off our coasts. The following 

 captures may be mentioned : One obtained at Torbay, 

 Devon, August, 1875 ; a second from Plymouth Sound, 

 about the same time. Both these are in the British 

 Museum (Harting, Handb. Brit. Birds, 2nd Edit., p. 310). 



1 In the British Museum there is a specimen from Brazil, presented 

 by Mr. Saunders (Cat. Birds. Brit. Mus., vol. xxv, p. 379). 



