ae : 
+. 
+f. 
Suarwater. NATATORES. PUFFINUS. 529 
so common upon the southern and western coasts of England. 
Its habits are presumed to be similar, but as they have not 
been noticed by TemMinck, or any other writer, I must 
confine myself to a mere description of the plumage of the 
individual above mentioned, which appears to be a bird of 
the year. 
Pirate 102 *. Natural size. 
Bill, from the forehead to the tip, one inch and three quar- 
ters long, slightly recurved, with the dertrum arched, 
and strongly hooked ; nasal tubes obliquely truncated 
and open in front. Tip of the lower mandible bent 
down, and following the curve of the upper one. Head, 
back part of the neck, and the upper plumage, blackish- 
brown, with the margins and tips of the feathers of the 
scapulars lighter. ‘Throat, lower part of the neck, and 
the whole of the under plumage deep ash-grey, with a 
tinge of broccoli-brown. Quills and tail brownish-black. 
Legs having the outer part of the tarsus deep grey ; the 
inner part and webbs yellowish. Tarsus two inches and 
one-eighth long. Middle and outer toes two inches and 
a half in length. 
MANKS SHEARWATER. 
Puorrinus Anectorum, Ray. 
PLATE CII. 
Puffinus Anglorum, Raii Syn. 134. A. 4.— Will. 252.—Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 
13. 226. pl. 26.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 137. 
Procellaria Puffinus, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 824. sp. 11.—Briss. Orn. 6. 131. 
Le Puffin cendré, Cows Reg. Anim. 1. 516. 
Pétrel Manks, Temm. Man. d’Orn. 2. 806. 
Manks Puffin, Edwards’ Glean. pl. 379.— Will. Angl. 333. 
Shearwater Petrel, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 551. No. 258.—Arct. Zool. 2. 462. 
—Lath. Syn. 6. 406. 11.—Id. Sup. 269.—Mont. Ornith. Dict. and ae 
—Bewick’s Br. Birds, ed. 1826, p. t. 241. 
Manks Shearwater, Shaw’s Zool. 13. 226. pl. 26. 
Provinciat—Lvyre, Shearwater, Scrabe. 
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