( 2 L 28 BRA SI El AN SHEARWATER. 



aud claws testaceous ; webs pale yellow. The young 

 have all the upper part of* the plumage much deeper, 

 and where it is bright ash in the old, it is of a slate- 

 colour or deep ash in the young ; the under parts of 

 the plumage are varied with ashy waves in some 

 places : the beak is ashy-black, rather slenderer than 

 in the old birds, without an apparent groove, and 

 the two tubes of the nostrils are not united in the 

 same arch. 



This bird inhabits many parts of the old world, 

 being found on the shores of the Mediterranean ; 

 also on the coasts of Senegal and the Cape of Good 

 Hope, New Holland, and other southern regions. 



lillASILIAN SHEARWATER. 



(Puffin us Brasilianus.) 



Pu. Jusco-nigricans, collo inferior e Jlavo, rectricibus Jusco- nigri- 



cantibns. 

 Brown-black Shearwater, with the lower part of the neck yellow, 



the tail-feathers dusky-brown. 

 Puffinus Brasiliensis. Briss. Orn. 6. 138. 

 Procellaria Brasiliana. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 564. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 821. 

 Le Puffin du Brasil. Duff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 1). 337. 

 Maiaque. Rail Syn. 133. 

 Brasilian Petrel. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 398. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 



172. 



As large as a Goose : the beak is hooked : the 

 entire plumage is dusky and blackish, with the fore 



