CINEREOUS PETREL. 
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In its flight, as well as in its manners on the water, this 
species much resembles the Manx petrel : it runs rapidly 
when on land, where, however, it does not appear at ease, 
but carries its body very near the ground: it is crepuscular 
in its habits, concealing itself, when in captivity, during the 
day. ^ 
According to M. Temminck this bird is very common on 
the shores of Newfoundland, where the persons employed in 
the cod-flsheries make use of its flesh for baiting their 
hooks. In Iceland this bird is rare. 
The food of the Cinereous Petrel consists in fish, worms, 
and marine refuse. 
It is said to breed in thousands on the shores of New¬ 
foundland. 
The entire length of the Cinereous Petrel is eighteen 
inches ; the beak one inch nine lines from the forehead to 
the tip, which has a double tube on the upper mandible, 
from whence the beak is slightly curved upwards, and ter¬ 
minates in a deep hook ; the wing measures, from the carpus 
to the tip, twelve inches three lines ; the tarsi two inches ; 
the^ middle toe two inches four lines and a half; the hind 
toe is a spur only. 
The feathers of the head, neck, sides, and flanks, are pen¬ 
cilled and spotted with pale brown and ash colour ; the back 
and wing-coverts are dusky brown, with paler edges to the 
feathers ; the upper tail-coverts are pale yellowish brown; 
the edges of the feathers pale straw colour ; the wings and 
tail are dusky; the eyes are dusky; the beak yellow ; the 
legs and feet yellow, with a cinereous grey tinge on the 
outer part of the tarsi. 
