34. PUFFINUS ANGLORUM {Kuhl). 



(MANX SHEARWATER.) 



(Plate 28.) 



The Puffin of the Isle of Man, Edwards, Gleanings Nat. Hist., III., p. 313, PI. 359 



(1764). 

 Le Puffin, Briss., Orn., VI., p. 131 (1760). 

 Procellaria puffinus, Linn., Syst. Nat., I., p. 213 (1766). 



Shearwater, Penn., Arctic Zool., II., p. 535 (1785) ; id. Brit. Zool., II., p. 206 (1812). 

 Shearwater Petrel, Lath., Gen. Syn., III., Pt. 2, p. 406 (1785). 

 Le Petrel Puffin, pt. Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., IX., p. 321 (1783). 

 Nectris anglorum, Kuhl, Beitr., p. 146 (1820). 

 Puffinus anglorum, Temm., Man. d'Orn., II., p. 806 (1820) ; Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 562 ; 



Audub., Orn. Biogr., III., p. 620 (1835) ; Coues, Pr. Acad. Philad., 1864, 



pp. 134, 144 ; Saunders, ed. Yarr., Brit. Birds, IV., p. 21 (1884) ; Salvin, 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 377 (1896). 

 Puffinus arcticus, Faber, Prodr. Isl. Orn., p. 156 (1822). 

 ManFs Shearwater, Lath., Gen. Hist. Birds, X., p. 184 (1824). 

 Thalassidroma anglorum, Swains., Classif. Birds, II., p. 374 (1837). 

 Nectris puffinus, Keys. & Bias., Wirb. Eur., p. xciv. (1840). 

 Cymotomus anglorum, MacgiLL, Man. Brit. Birds, II., p. 13 (1842). 

 Manx Shearwater, Yarrell, Brit. Birds, III., p. 508 (1843). 

 Puffinus puffinus, A. O. U. Checklist, N. Amer. Birds, 1886, p. 100 ; Ridgway, Man. 



N. Amer. Birds, p. 60 (1887) ; Sharpe, Handb. Brit. Birds, IV, p. 163 (1897). 



Cauda breviore, rotundata : subtus albus : ala 8.9-9.5 poll. : axillaribus albis, macula 

 nigra subterminali notatis : subcaudalibus et hypochondriis albis, minime brunneis, 

 sed interdum nigro maculatis vel striatis. 



The Manx Shearwater belongs to the smaller section of the genus Puffinus, in which 

 the wing does not exceed 9.6 inches in length. The axillaries are white, with a black spot 

 at the end, the flanks being also white, sometimes with a little blackish freckling, but 



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