198 PROCELLAEllD^. 



Islands to the Shetlands. It inhabits the seas and coasts 

 of Eastern North America and Western Europe. 



Pufi&nus griseus. Sooty Shearwater. 



Procellaria grisea, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 564 (1788) . 



Puffinus cinereus, Macg. v. p. 438 (partim) . 

 Puffiuus obscurus, Hurting, p. 176 (partim). 

 PufEnus griseusj Dresser, viii. p. 523. 



Griseus = grey, in post-classical Latin ; probably borrowed from 0. H. G. 

 gris, the modern German grau, our grey. 



Met with occasionally on the coasts of Great Britain^ 

 where it has often been confounded with P. major. Of 

 general oceanic distribution. 



Puffinus major. Greater Shearwater. 



Puffinus major^ Faber, Prodr. isL Orn. p. 56 (1822). 



Puffinus cinereus, Macg. v. p. 438 (partim) ; Gray, p. 222. 

 Puffinus major^ Hewitson, Tp. 516; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 624; 



id. ed. 8, iii. p. 647; Gould, v. pi. 83; Hartbn/, p. 79; 



Dresser, viii. p. 527. 

 The Greater Shearwater, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 502. 



Major = greater. 



Occurs irregularly in autumn off the coasts of the United 

 Kingdom, principally on the south and west. It inhabits 

 the Atlantic Ocean. 



Puffinus obscurus. Dusky Shearwater. 



Procellaria obscura, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 559 



(1788). 



Puffinus obscurus, Gray, p. 223; Yarr. ed. 3, iii. p. 659; 

 Hurting, p. 176. 



Obscurus — dark. 



One was taken in Valentia Harbour, co. Kerry, May ] 1, 

 1853 ; and another was picked up dead in Norfolk, April, 



