The Flesh-footed Shearwater 



Taken near Santa Barbara 



Photo by the Author 



DARK-BODIED SHEARWATERS: BREAKING WATER 



the water did not permit of properly timed exposures or of individual 

 portraiture. 



The nights are spent in this same fashion, tossing upon the waves 

 in great dense companies which roughly parallel the shore. Their 

 slumbers are not infrequently disturbed by storms; and we have ample 

 evidence on shore that not even these children of the sea can stand an 

 indefinite amount of buffeting. A watery grave awaits every Shearwater, 

 and it makes little difference to a floater whether crayfish or gulls play 

 the part of undertaker. 



No. 408 



Flesh-footed Shearwater 



A. O. U. Xo. 95.1. Puffinus carneipes Gould. 



Synonym. — Pale-footed Shearwater. 



Description. — "Adult, dark sooty brown, nearly uniform, slightly paler beneath 

 and grayer on the throat; under wing-coverts and axillaries uniform sooty brown, 

 bill flesh-colour, the tip horn; tarsi and toes flesh-colour. Total length about 19.5 

 inches [mm 495.3], wing 12.5 [mm 317.5]; tail, central rectrices 4.3 [mm 109.2], lateral 

 rectrices 3.65 [mm 92.7]; tarsus 2.25 [mm 57.15], middle toe 2.7 [mm 68.6], outer toe a 

 trifle shorter, inner toe 2.2 [mm 55.9]" (Salvin). 



2005 



