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Upper tail-coverts of same colour as lack, not white. 



0. fuliginosa. 10". The Sooty Petrel. Legs and till black. Under parts uniform sooty- 

 grey. Japanese seas. 



0. melania. 9". Bill and legs black. Uniform sooty above, paler below. California. 



0. markhami, 9". Entire head tinged plumbeous. Peru. 



0. tristrami. 9"- Back, scapulars, and upper rump slate, each feather with one or two 

 indistinct dark bars. Japan. 



0. homochroa, "H", Legs and bill black. Under wing-coverts variegated with dirty white. 

 California. 



0. monorhis, 7i". Similar to 0. homochroa, but under wing-coverts uniform sooty. China 

 and Japan. 



0. homhyi. 8J". Legs and bill black. Under surface white. Breast with sooty collar. 

 N.E. Pacific. 



0. furcata. 8". The Fork-tailed Petrel. Plumage generally pale ashy. N. Pacific as far 

 south as Oregon. (B.M. Cat., xxv. 343-357.) 



Family PUFFINID^. 



Bill arched and hooked. Nostrils with two openings united externally, or 

 nearly so, above culmen. Margin of sternum uneven. First primary longest, or 

 equal to the second. Hind toe present. 



Subfamily PuffiniDjE. Puffin Petrels or Sheaewateks. 

 Sides of palate without lamellae. Tail of twelve feathers (Prioeella fourteen). 



Genus PUFFINUS. 



Puffinvs, the Latinised form of the English " Puffin" ; from " to puff" = to blow in an inter- 

 mittent way, thence "to swell," French "bouffer"; from the swollen bill of Fratercula artica, 

 Brisson seems to have applied the name to the Shearwater, from Willoughby calling it the 

 ■' Puffin of the Isle of Man." 



Of moderate size. Bill slender, compressed, much hooked at tip. Tubular 

 nostrils terminate in two distinct openings directed forward and upward. First 

 primary longest. Tarsus compressed, reticulated. Hind claw distinct. 



280. Fuffinus cMororhynchns. The Green-billed Sheabwater. 



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(? 17". Legs fleshy white. Bill greenish. Dark smoke-brown, paler and 

 more grey beneath. Throat ashy. Tail long and cuneate. Indian Ocean, 

 Australian and New Zealand seas, and northwards to the Society Islands. 

 (B. 1538.) 



Also P. leucomelas. 19". Upper plumage sooty, edged with white. Under surface white. 

 Japan and Corea, and southwards to Philippines, N. Borneo, the Moluccas, and N. Australia. 



P. aineatus. 17" Upper plumage not edged with white. Back, greater wing-coverts, and 

 primaries entirely sooty. Under surface white. N. Pacific. 



P. hulUri. lej". Upper plumage not edged with white. Back and greater wing-coverts 

 grey. New Zealand. 



281, Puffinus persicus. The Persian Shearwater. 



^ 12" to 14". Legs white. Bill pale lavender. White line round eye. Above 

 blackish brown. Below pure white. Axillaries dark brown. Tail rounded. 

 Lateral lower tail-coverts deep brown. Eemiges thirty. Arabian Sea and Persian 

 Gulf. (B. 1539. S.F., i. 5.) 



Also P. ohscurus. 12". The Dusky Shearwater. Legs black. Bill hazel. Similar to 

 P. persicus, but axillaries are white, or slightly mottled near tips. Tropical and subtropical 



