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134. PUFFINUS, Brisson. 



5. Sheakwatek. p. AijiTGLOKiTM, (Gmel/'n.) 



Puffinus Anf)lorum, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, II., 

 227. 



Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, III., 631. 



The Shcai'water is a rare casual visitant. I know of the cap- 

 ture of but two inGlividuals within the district ; one was shot olf 

 CuUercoats on the 20th of May, 1870, and is now in the collec- 

 tion of ]Mr. C. M. Adamsou ; the other example is recorded in 

 Mr. Selby's catalogue : it is there stated, ''the only fresh speci- 

 men I ever obtained was one killed upon an excursion to the 

 Fern Islands." 



A specimen of a Puffinus was shot off CuUercoats, September, 

 1860, which somewhat resembles the above species, but is rather 

 larger in size, the bill being one-quarter of an inch longer, the 

 wings from the carpal joint to the end of the primaries half-an- 

 inch at least, the tarsi and middle toe are also one-quarter of an 

 inch longer than in P. Anglorum. The colour also differs con- 

 siderably, the back being two shades paler and the whole of the 

 under parts of the body having the feathers tipped with ash 

 colour, whilst in the true P. Anglorum these parts are pure 

 white. By some it may be considered to be the young of P. 

 Anglorum, but as no English author has described the young of 

 that species, and as Degiand and Gerbc distinctly state that the 

 underparts are wliite in the young of P. Anglorum, we may hesi- 

 tate before concluding it to be the young of that species. This 

 specimen, which is in my collection, was purchased from Mr. 

 Duncan, bird-stuffer, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



In 1838, I saw another example in the same plumage, in the 

 collection of the late Cuthbert Rippon, Esq., of Stanhope Castle. 



