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of eyelids dark grey; iris brown. Feet light greenish-grey, webs and claws 

 yellowish flesh-colour. The upper parts in general are deep brown, the hind 

 neck paler and tinged with grey; the primary quills and tail brownish-black. 

 The lower parts are greyish-white; the lower wing-coverts white, those next 

 the edge of the wing greyish-black towards the end, the axillary feathers 

 white, greyish-brown towards the end, lower tail-coverts similar. 



Length to end of tail 20 inches, to end of wings 21 A, to end of claws 

 2li; extent of wings 45; wing from flexure 13i; tail 5; bill along the back 

 2 T 4 2, along the edge of lower mandible 2§; tarsus 24; middle toe 2j, its 

 claw ^. Weight 1 lb. 9§ oz. 



THE MANKS SHEARWATER. 



4-PuFFINUS ANGLORUM, Ray. 



PLATE CCCCLVIL— Adclt. 



Although I have procured this species to the westward of the banks of 

 Newfoundland, or between their soundings and the American coast, I am 

 unable to say any thing of importance respecting its habits as observed by 

 myself. This species formerly inhabited a small islet close to the Isle of 

 Man, but appears to have now entirely deserted it. In the Orkneys, how- 

 ever, it is still abundant, and the eggs and young are in much request there. 

 It arrives in March, and, when the young are able to fly, betakes itself to 

 the open sea, disappearing towards the approach of winter. The British 

 writers who have described it inform us,, that it stands nearly erect, flies 

 with great rapidity, feeds on marine animal substances of all kinds, and, 

 when taken, squirts out an oily fluid from its nostrils in the manner of the 

 Petrels. It is said to breed in burrows, and to lay only a single egg, of a 

 white colour and elliptical form, about the size of that of a domestic fowl. 



Puffinds anglordm, Bonap. Syn., p. 371. 



Shearwater Petrel, Nutt. Man., vol. ii. p. 336. 



Manks Shearwater, Pujjitvus anglorum, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. iii. p. 604. 



Adult, 15, 32. 



