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SHEAR-WATER PETREL. Class II. 



2. Shear- 

 Water. 



Procellaria Puffinus. Pr. cor- 

 pore supra nigro subtus al- 

 .; bo, pedibus rufis. Lath. Ind. 

 . ^ orn. 824. id,. Syn. vi. 406. 

 . id. Sup. i. 269. 

 Avis Diomedea, Artenna. 



Aldr. av. iii. 36. 

 Manks Puffin. Wil. orn. 333. 

 Raii Syn. av. 134. 

 Shear water. Idem. 133. 

 Wil. orn. 334. 



Patines de oviedo. Raii Syn. 

 av. 191. 



Edw. av. 359. 



Procellaria Puffinus. Gm. Lin. 



566. 

 Puffinus, le Puffin. Brisson 



av. vi. 131. tab. 12. Jig. 1. 



is a variety of it. HisL d'ois. 



ix. 321. PI. Enl. 962. 

 Feroensihus Sl^rabe. Norvegis 



Skraap, PuUus. Feroensihus 



Liere. Brunnich, II9. 

 Manks Petrel. Br. Zool. 146. 



Tab. M. Arct. Zool. ii. 254. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



A HE length of this species is fifteen inches ; 

 the breadth thirty-one ; the weight seventeen 

 ounces. The bill is an inch and three quarters 

 long ; the nostrils tubular, but not very promi- 

 nent; the head, and M^hole upper side of the 

 body, wings, tail, and thighs, are of a sooty 

 blackness ; the under side from chin to tail, and 

 inner coverts of the wings, white; the legs 

 weak, and compressed sideways, dusky behind, 

 whitish before. 



These birds are found in the Calf of Man^ 

 and as Mr. Kay supposes in the Scilly -isles : 

 they resort to the former in February ; take a 

 short possession of the rabbet burrows, and 

 then disappear till April: they lay one egg, 

 white and blunt at each end ; the young are fit 



