BLACK-TOED SHEARWATER. £31 



Length upwards of a foot : beak black, with its 

 sides horn colour ; its point hooked : the upper parts 

 of the plumage are dusky black, the under white : 

 on the sides of the neck varied with brown and white : 

 the legs of the middle wing-coverts are whitish : the 

 legs are externally black, internally pale : the two 

 outward toes are yellowish : the webs are orange-co- 

 lour ; claws black. Inhabits the southern regions of 

 the globe, but appearing occasionally to the north of 

 the equinoctial, having occurred, according to Tem- 

 minck, in the Mediterranean. 



black-toed shearwater ? 



(Puffinus? melanopus.) 



Pu? cinereo -nigricans, capistro gulaque griseis maculis minutis 



nigricantibus, rostro toto digitisque dimidiato nigris. 

 Dusky-ash Shearwater? with the capistrum and throat grey, 



minutely spotted with dusky, the entire beak and half the toes 



black. 

 Procellaria melanopus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 562. Lath. Ind, 



Orn. 2. 825. 

 Black-toed Petrel. Penn. Arct. Zool. Sup. 73. Lath. Gen. Syn. 



6. 408. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 185. 



Length thirteen inches : beak black, an inch and 

 a half long : round its base, the chin and throat pale 

 glossy grey, minutely speckled with dusky : the top 

 of the head, and all the upper parts of the plumage, 



