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PUFFINUS KUHLI. 



(MEDITERRANEAN SHEARWATER.) 



Procellaria puffinus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 805 (1820). 



Procellaria cinerea, Kuhl, Beitr. zur Zool. p. 148 (1820, nee Gm.). 



Procellaria kuhli, Boie, Isis, 1835, p. 257. 



Nectris cinerea (Kuhl), Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 94 (1840). 



Puffinus cinereus (Kuhl), Temm. Man. d'Orn. iv. p. 506 (1840, nee Gm.). 



Nectris macrorhyncha, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 68 (1856). 



Puffinus Jcuhlii (Boie), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. ii. p. 202 (1857). 



Procellaria cinerea (Kuhl), Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Procell. p. 24 (1863, nee Gm.). 



Puffin cendre, French ; Berta maggiore, Italian ; Ciefa, Maltese. 



Figures notabiles. 



Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, pi. 23 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 58. fig. 2 ; Kuhl, I. c, pi. ix. 

 fig. 13; Bree, B. of Eur. iv. pi. to p. 109. 



Ad. pileo, nucM et collo postico saturate fusco-cinereis, capitis et colli lateribus pallidioribus et grisescen- 

 tioribus : dorso, uropygio et supracaudalibus fusco-cinereis, plumis pallide fuseo-cinereo marginatis : 

 remigibus primariis nigricantibus, secundariis, scapularibus et tectricibus alarum saturate fuscis, his 

 pallidiore marginatis : cauda, saturate fusca, versus apicem nigricante : corpore subtiis albo : rostro 

 sordide flavido, versus apicem fusco : pedibus sordide flavidis : iride nigro-fusca. 



Jvv. corpore supra saturatiore et subtiis minus albo, rostro fusco-corneo, pedibus sordide plumbescentibus. 



Adult (Algerian coast) . Crown, nape, and hind neck cinereous brown, becoming paler and greyer on the 

 sides of tbe head and of the neck ; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts similarly coloured, but the 

 feathers are margined with pale brownish cinereous ; primary quills blackish ; secondaries, scapulars, 

 and wing-coverts dark brown, the latter with lighter margins ; tail dark brown, darker towards the 

 tip ; underparts pure white ; bill livid-yellowish, becoming dark brownish horn at the point ; legs livid- 

 yellowish; iris dark brown. Total length about 18 inches, culmen 2 - 8, wing 136, tail 56, tarsus 2'1. 



Young. Upper parts deeper in colour than the adult, and the underparts less pure white in coloration ; beak 

 dark horn; legs livid bluish. 



Young in down (Cyclades). Covered all over with dense, rather long, down, sooty brownish cinereous in 

 colour, more brown in tint than in the young of Puffinus anglorum. 



Comparatively speaking the range of the present species of Shearwater is limited ; for it only 

 inhabits the Mediterranean and the archipelagos of Madeira and the Canaries. It is stated to 

 occur off the coast of Portugal ; Colonel Irby says that it is abundant in the Straits of Gibraltar ; 



