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General Distribution. — The Sooty Shearwater breeds in 

 the southern Hemisphere, on the coasts and islands of 

 New Zealand and on the Chatham group, in the months o£ 

 February and March. It ranges thence eastwards to the 

 coast oi: Chile, and in summer northwards through the 

 Pacific to California, south Alaska, and the Kurile Islands, 

 while in the Athjntic it visits the east coast of the United 

 Stafes, from South Carolina to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 and the western coast of Europe from Portugal northwards 

 to the Faeroes. 



PufRnus gravis. Greater Shearwater. 



Puffinus gravis O'Reilly, Voy. to Grreenland, 1818, 

 p. 140 : Greenland to Newfoundland. 



Puffinus major Faher ; B. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 198. 

 Puffinus gravis O'EeiUy ; Salvin, Gat. Birds B. M. xxv. 189G, 

 p. 373 ; Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 737. 



Gi-aOTs= heavy (big or great). 



Distrihution in the British Islands. — A Regular Visitor in 

 summer and winter off our coasts, but seldom found near 

 hind. Most frequent otf the west and south coasts of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, less frequent on the east coast, but not 

 uncommon off the coast of Yorkshire. 



General Distribution. — The only known breeding-station 

 of the Greater Shearwater is Tristan da Cmiha, but it 

 pi-obably nests on other islands of tlie southern Atlantic. 

 It ranges over the Atlantic Ocean, from southern Green- 

 land, Iceland, and the Faeroes southwards to the Falkland 

 Islands and the Cape of Good Hope. 



Puffinus kuhli. Mediterranean 

 Great Shearwater. 

 Procellaria kvillli Boie, Isis, 1835, p. 257 : Corsica. 



Puffinus kuhli Salvin, Cat. Birds B. M. xxv. 1896, p. 375; 

 Butterfield, Bull. B. O. O. xvi. 1906, p. 71. 

 Kuhl i, named in honour of the German naturalist, Heinrich Kuhl (1797-1821). 



