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 THE MANKS SHEARWATER. 



PUFFINUS ANGLOBUM, RaY. 

 PLATE CCXCV. Adult. 



Although I have procured this species to the westward of the banks 

 of Newfoundland, or between their soundings and the American coast, I 

 am unable to say any thing of importance respecting its habits as observed 

 by myself. This species formerly inhabited a small islet close to the Isle 

 of Man, but appears to have now entirely deserted it. In the Orkneys, 

 however, it is still abundant, and the eggs and young are in much request 

 there. It arrives in March, and, when the young are able to fly, betakes 

 itself to the open sea, disappearing towards the approach of winter. The 

 British writers who have described it inform us, that it stands nearly erect, 

 flies with great rapidity, feeds on marine animal substances of all kinds, 

 and, when taken, squirts out an oily fluid from its nostrils in the manner 

 of the Petrels. It is said to breed in burrows, and to lay only a single 

 egg, of a white colour, and elliptical form, about the size of that of a do- 

 mestic fowl. 



Phocellahia Puffinus, Linn. Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 213 Lath. Ind. Ornith. vol. ii. 



p. 824. 

 Puffinus Anglorum, Ch. Bonaparte, Synops. of Birds of the United States, p. 371. 

 Shearwater Petrel, Nuttall, Manual, vol. ii. p. 336. 



Adult. Plate CCXCV. 



Bill about the length of the head, rather slender, a little compressed, 

 straightish, the tips curved. Upper mandible with the dorsal line convex, 

 and sloping at the base, afterwards slightly concave, on the unguis curved, 

 the ridge broadly convex, narrowed towards the end, the sides convex, 

 the edges sharp and slightly inflected ; the unguis stout, curved, rather 

 acute. Nostrils tubular, approximated, dorsal ; the narrow nasal groove 

 extending to the unguis. Lower mandible with the angle very long and 

 narrow, the short dorsal line beyond it decurved, the sides convex and 

 sloping inwards, the edges sharp and inflected. 



Head of moderate size, ovate, narrowed before. Neck of moderate 



