CINEREOUS SHEARWATER. 227 



food : they are salted and barreled. They depart 

 about September. 



During the day they keep in their holes, and to- 

 wards evening go out fishing and return to their 

 young, which they feed by ejecting the oily con- 

 tents of their stomach into their mouths while in the 

 nest. 



CINEREOUS SHEARWATER. 



(Puffinus ciuereus.) 



Pu. supra cinereus subtus albus, Cauda nigricante, rostra Jiavo, 



pedibus cinerascentibus. 

 Shearwater above ash-colour, beneath white, with the tail dusky, 



the beak yellow, and the legs greyish. 

 Petrel Puffin. Temm. man d'Orn. 2 Edit. ii. 805. 

 Procellaria cinerea. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 563. Lath. hid. Orn. 



2. 824. 

 Cinereous Petrel. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 405. Lath. Syn. Sup. ii. 



335. Lath. Gen. 'Hist. x. 183. 

 Young. — Procellaria Puffinus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1.213. Gmel. 



Syst. Nat. 1. 566. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 824. 

 Le Puffin. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9.321. Buff. PL Enl. 962. 



This is rather a large bird, being upwards of twenty 

 inches in length : its beak is yellowish, with black 

 sutures : irides cinereous : the upper parts of the 

 plumage are chiefly dusky ash-colour : the crown of 

 the head and forehead palest : the under parts from 

 the chin are white : the tail is rounded and black ; 

 its under surface pale cinereous : legs bluish : toes 



