RARER BRITISH BIRDS. 51 



DUSKY SHEARWATER. 



Piiffinus Fuliginosus. KUHL. 



A NOTICE was read, July the 5th, 1832, before the Committee 

 of the Zoological Society, by Arthur Strictland, Esq. of Boynton, 

 near Burlington, Yorkshire, of a species of Puffin, shot by Mr. 

 George Marwood, jun. of Busby, in the middle of August, at the 

 mouth of the river Tees. The bird, according to Mr. Strictland, 

 " is referable to the Puffinus Fuliginosus of Kuhl, whose descrip- 

 tion, in his Beitrage, rests upon two unpublished drawings, 

 which form part of the valuable collection of Sir Joseph Banks, 

 now in the British Museum, one of which is marked Procellaria 

 Fuliginosa by Forster, the other Nectris Fuligiuosa by Solander, 

 in whose MS. Notes it is described under the latter name." 



The Procellaria Fuliginosa of the same MS., though similar in 

 size and colour, is entirely different, and at once distinguishable, 



