834 U. S, p. E. E. EXP. AND SUEVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL EEPOET. 



Nectris, Bon. 



PUFFINUS FULIGINOSUS, Strickland. 



The Sooty Shearwater. 



Pvffinus fuliginosua, Strick. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, 129. 

 Nectris fuliginosus, Bon. Cons. Av. II, 1856, 201. 



Puffinus cinereiis, DeKat, Nat. Hist. State N. Y., Birds, 1844, 287 ; pi. cxxxvi, fig. 298.— Bon. Comptes Rendus, 

 XLIII, 1856. 

 Sp. Ch. — The entire upper plumage is sooty brown ; wings and tail blackish brown ; under plumage pale brown ; bill and 

 legs black. Bill more slender than that of P. major. Length, 18 incheH ; wing, 12 ; bill along ridge, Ij^g ; from rictus, 2^ ; 

 tarsus, 2; ; middle toe, 2;. 



Ilab. — Atlantic coast of the northern States. Banks of Newfoundland. 



Specimens in the cabinet of tlie Lyceum of Nat. History, N. Y. 



I have always been impressed with the opinion that this bird was not the young of P. major, 

 but a distinct species. 



Bonaparte, in Comptes Eendus, referred to above, states that M. Hardy, ornithologist of 

 Dieppe, has compared a large number of specimens of P. major and P. fuliginosus of both 

 sexes from the banks of Newfoundland, and is satisfied that there can be no doubt of their 

 being specifically distinct. He says that being completely convinced of this, he has accordingly 

 separated them. 



Puffinus, Linn'. 

 PUFFINUS ANaLOEUM, Temm. 



The Mank's Shearwater. 



" Procellaria puffinus, Linn., not of other authors." — Bon. 

 ProcMaria anglorum, Temm. Man. II, 1820, 806. 



Pvffinus anglorum, Rat, Synops. 1713, 134.— Temm. Man. IV, 509.— Bonap. Syn. 1828, No. 312.— Nutt. Man. II, 

 1834, 336.— AuD. Orn. Biog. Ill, 1835, 604.— Ib. Birds Am. VII, 1844, 214 ; pi. cccolvii.— 

 Bon. Cons. Avium, 1855, 203. 

 " Puffinus arcticus, Faber." 

 gp Ch. — Entire upper plumage, wings, tail, and the tibial feathers, black ; primaries and secondaries black on the outer webs, 

 dark ash on the inner; under parts white, sides of the neck and breast transversely barred with ash; bill brownish black; iris dark 

 brown; tarsi and feet dull orange, with the hind part of tibia, the oiiter toe, and a portion of the next toe, dark brown; webs pale 

 yellow ; claws brownish black. Length, 15 inches ; wing, 9J ; tail, 3^ ; bill, If ; tarsus, 1J§ ; middle toe and claw, 2^. 

 Hob. — Coast of New Jersey to Labrador. 



The above description is from a specimen belonging to Professor Baird, from Mr, Audubon's 

 collection. Said by Audubon to be "not uncommon off the coast of Maine during summer." 

 Much smaller than P. major, with the bill quite slender and the upper plumage black. 



List of specimens. 



