264 PUFFINUS CHLORORHYNCHUS. 



only one of numberless valuable contributions that he has made 

 during the last few years to our knowledge of Indian ornitho- 

 logy. It is with unfeigned regret, therefore, that I learn that 

 before this article even can be published, Captain Butler will 

 have left India with his regiment ; and we shall have lost, (but 

 let us hope not for ever) one of the most persevering, accurate 

 and enthusiastic field ornithologists that India of the present 

 day can boast. 



A. O. H. 



The Green-billed Shearwater. 



By Captain W. Vincent Legge, K.A.* 



Gavle. 



■Fain. Procellaridce. 



Bill hooked at the tip, which is elevated and distinct from 

 the base in both mandibles ; sides grooved, in some furnished 

 with lamellse ; nostrils tubular, placed on the base of the cul- 

 men and opening to the front ; wings long and pointed; tail 

 short, variable in the number of feathers ; legs short, placed 

 far back ; the tibia more feathered than in the last family ; 

 feet fully webbed, the outer toe not shorter than the middle ; 

 hind toe present as a claw only. 



Of oceanic habit and powerful flight. Of variable size, 

 nestinor n rocks or in holes in the ground. Sternum with one 

 fissure in each half of the posterior margin. 



Genus Puffinus. 



Bill rather long and slender, the tip much elevated and Looked ; the gonys curved ; 

 nostril tube flattened above, rather short, and with two orifices with a division equal 

 to their width ; wings long, the 1st quill slightly exceeding the 2nd ; tail of 12 lea- 

 thers graduated, rounded at the tip ; tarsus much compressed, the sides protected by 

 well-defined scutes, shorter than the outer and middle toes ; hind claw very small. 



Pvfinus chlororhynchus, Lesson, Traite d" 1 Orn., p. 613 (1831); 

 Newton, Ibis, 1861, p. 181, et 1867, p. 359. 



Pvffinus, sp. ?, Legge, Sir. leath., 1875, p. 374 ; Hume, ibid, 

 1879, p. 115 (List B. of Ind.) 



* This is not really an article written for S. F. by my friend Capt. Legge, but sim- 

 ply an extract verbatim et literatim, from his " Birds of Ceylon," of his article on this 

 species. This latter has to be added to our list, and some account of it had to be given 

 in Stray Feathers, and I have adopted Capt. Legge's account, in order thus to give 

 my readers an idea of the careful and comprehensive manner in which he deals with 

 every species included in his work, This, owing to the circumstances of the case, is 

 perhaps the meagerest artiole in the whole book. 



