PELAGODROMAPUFFINUS 849 



PELAGODROMA, Reichenb., 1852. 



1166, FRIGATE PETREL. 

 PELAGODROMA MARINA. 



Pelagodroma marina (Lath.), Ind. Orn. ii. p. 826 (1790) ; (Gould), B. of 

 Austral, vii. pi. 61 ; Dresser, ix. p. 399, pi. 719 ; Salvin, Cat. B. 

 Br. Mus. xxv. p. 362 ; Rirlg\vay, p. 72 ; Saunders, p. 735 ; Lilford, 

 vi. p. 134, pi. 57. 



Ad. (Teneriffe). Upper parts slaty brown, darker on the crown and 

 lower back, paler and greyer on the dorsal region, the feathers with slightly 

 paler margins ; lower rump and upper tail -coverts pale slate-grey, the 

 latter with narrow white margins ; wings and tail blackish brown ; secon- 

 daries and wing-coverts margined and tipped with whitish ; a patch below 

 the eye beyond the ear-coverts dark slaty brown ; forehead, superciliary 

 stripe, and under parts white ; bill and legs black, the webs yellow with a 

 dark edge. Culmen 0'9, wing 6'0, tail 3'35, the middle feathers 0'42 

 shorter than the lateral ones, tarsus 1*7 inch. Sexes alike. 



Hal. Seas of the Southern Hemisphere, north to the Canary 

 Islands and the Salvages ; has occurred on the coast of 

 Massachusetts once, and twice off those of Great Britain. 



In habits this bird does not appear to differ from Leach's and 

 the Storm Petrel. It has been found breeding on the Salvage 

 Isles, on the Chatham and Houtmann's Abrolhos Islands, and 

 on Nightingale Island, one of the Tristan da Cunha group. It 

 nests in holes in the ground, depositing in April in the Salvages, 

 in December in the Australian seas, a single white egg, finely 

 spotted and often zoned at one end with fine reddish or 

 purplish dots, and measuring about 1*47 by T07. 



PUFFINUS, Briss., 1760. 



1167. MANX SHEARWATER. 

 PUFFINUS ANGLORUM. 



Puffinus anglorum (Temm.), Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 807 (1820) ; (Hewitson), ii. 

 p. 514, pi. cxliv. fig. 1 ; Gould, B. of E. v. pi. 443 ; id. B. of Gt. 

 Brit. v. pi. 84 ; Dresser, viii. p. 517, pi. 615, fig. 1 ; Salvin, Cat. B. 

 Br. Mus. xxv. p. 377 ; Saunders, p. 741 ; Lilford, vi. p. 140, pi. 60 ; 

 P. pujfinuS) Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 213 (1766) ; Ridgway, p. 60 ; P. 

 arcticus, Faber, Prodr. Isl. Orn. p. 156 (1822) ; Naum. x. p. 618, 

 Taf. 277. 



