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\\'ith regard to the last list, if any of my readers possess 

 any of these specimens or know their whereabonts, I sincerely 

 hope they will communicate with me as I am most anxious 

 to examine all the specimens possible. 



It is, of course, far more likety that this form inhabiting 

 the western Mediterranean should visit us than the true 

 ydkoiian of the eastern Mediterranean, and the fact that 

 all the British examples so far examined have the characters 

 of the western form goes to support the correctness of 

 Dr. Lowe's separation of the two forms. 



P. p. manrdanicus will be found fully dealt with in the 

 next part of the Practical Handbook, but meanwhile it may 

 be briefly described as being slightly larger than the Manx 

 Shearwater, the upper-parts browner, the sides of the neck 

 pale sooty-brown, the sides of the throat sometimes the 

 same but often only finely mottled with sooty-browni, the 

 centre of the throat usually white but sometimes mottled, 

 the sides of the body sooty-brown which extends considerabh' 

 on to the belly, while the vent, under tail-coverts and axillaries 

 are entirely sooty-brown. The amount of sooty-brown on the 

 nnder-parts varies individually and often fine mottling extends 

 all over the under-parts. The bird is very distinct from the 

 Manx Shearwater with its black upper-parts and white 

 under-parts mottled slightly on the sides with slate-grey. 

 The least brown specimen is browner than the Levantine 

 Shearwater and has sooty-brown axillaries which, in the 

 Levantine, are only tip])ed sooty-brown, while the under 

 tail -coverts are wholly sooty -brown, whereas in the Levantine 

 onlv the lateral ones are of this colour. 



