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260. PUFFINUS CARNEIPES. 

 (PINK-FOOTED SHEARWATER.) 



Fuffimis carneipes, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1844, p. 57. 



The Pink-footed Shearwater is very slightly less than Siebold's 

 Shearwater (wing from carpal joint 13 J inches). It is brown above 

 and below, including the under wing-coverts, but the bill, legs, and 

 feet are pale. 



Figures : Gould, Birds of Australia, vii. pi. 57. 



Head of Puffinus carneipes. Natural size. 



The Pink-footed Shearwater is probably the species described by 

 Pennant in his 'Arctic Zoology' as the Kurile Petrel, and very 

 appropriately named about 1780 Procellaria nigra (Pallas, Spicilegia 

 Zoologica, pt. v. p. 28). Three examples collected by Mr. Henson 

 at Hakodadi in May have passed through my hands (Seebohm, Ibis, 

 1884, p. 176) and are now in the British Museum. 



This species is said to breed on some islands off the coast of South- 

 western Australia, and is probably a non-breeding summer visitor to 

 the North Pacific. 



