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PUFFINUS ANGLOEUM. 



(MANX SHEARWATER.) 



Puffinus, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 131 (1760). 



Procellaria puffinus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 213 (1766). ; .,'■ 



Le Petrel Puffin, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ix. p. 321, PL Enl. 962 (1783). 



Procellaria anglorum, Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 807 (1820). 



Puffinus anglorum (Temm.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 562. 



Puffinus arcticus, Faber, Prodr. isl. Orn. p. 56 (1822). 



Procellaria yelkouan, Acerbi, Bibl. Ital. cxl. p. 294 (1827). 



Thalassidroma anglorum (Temm.), Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 374 (1837). 



Nectris puffinus (L.), Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 94 (1840). 



Nectris obscura, Keys. & Bias. op. cit. p. 94 (1840, partim). 



Cymotomus anglorum (Temm.), Macg. Man. B. Orn. ii. p. 13 (1842). 



Puffinus obscurus, Bp. Compt. Bend. xlii. p. 769 (1856, nee Gm.). 



Puffinus barolii (Bonelli), Bp. Compt. Bend. xlii. p. 769 (1856, nee Bonelli). 



Puffinus yelkouan (Acerbi), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. ii. p. 205 (1857). 



Procellaria yelkuan (Acerbi), Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Procellaria, p. 29 (1863). 



Puffinus yelcuanus (Acerbi), Coues, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1864, p. 137. 



Nectris anglorum (Temm.), Bey, Synonymik eur. Brutv. p. 150 (1872). 



Nectris baroli, Bey, op. cit. p. 150 (1872, nee Bonelli). 



Scraib, Gaelic ; Petrel Manks, French; Berta minore, Italian; nordischer Tauchersturmvogel, 

 German; noordsche Pijlstormvogel, Dutch; Almindelig Skrope, Danish; Skraapur, Fseroese ; 

 Skrofa, Icelandic ; Lire-Skrape, Norwegian ; Stapagado in the Azores. 



Figure notabiles. 

 Edwards, Gleanings, pi. 359 ; Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, pi. 24 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. 51a ; 

 Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 277; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 443 ; id. B. of G. Brit. v. pi. 84 ; 

 Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pi. 332 ; Audub. B. of Am. pi. 457. 



Ad. pileo, nucha, capitis lateribus et corpore supra nigris, collo postico vix cinereo-fumoso tincto : capitis 

 lateribus vix albido tinctis : corpore subtus, hypochondriis et subalaribus albis : rostro nigro-fusco, man- 

 dibula caeruleo-cornea : iride fusca : pedibus cseruleo-carneis. 



Juv. adulto similis, sed brunnescentior : crisso et hypochondriis brunneo lavatis. 



Adult Male (Orkney) . Crown, nape, and entire upper parts black, the hind neck rather tinged with grey ; 

 sides of the head also black, but slightly marked with white ; entire underparts including the flanks and 

 under wing-coverts pure white ; upper mandible blackish brown, lower mandible bluish horn ; iris dark 

 brown ; legs bluish flesh-colour. Total length about 13 inches, culmen 1-6, wing 9-3, tail 3 - 2, tarsus 1-9. 



