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SHEAR-WATER PETREL. CuAss II. 
2. SHEAR- Procellaria Puffinus. Pr. cor- 
WATER. 
DescriP- 
TION. 
pore supra nigro subtus al- 
bo, pedibus rufis. Lath. Ind. 
orn. 824. id. Syn. vi. 406, 
ad. Sup. i. 269. 
Avis Diomedea, 
Aldr. av. iii. 36. 
Manks Puffin. W721. orn. 333. 
Raiz Syn. av. 134. 
Shear water. Idem. 133. 
Wil. orn. 334. 
Patines de oviedo. Raii Syn. 
Artenna. 
Edw. av. 359. 
Procellaria Puffinus. Gm. Lin. 
566. 
Puffinus, le Puffin. Brisson 
av. vi. 131. tab. 12. fig. 1. 
is a variety of it. Hisé. dots. 
ix. 321. Pl. Enl. 962. 
Feroensibus Skrabe. Norvegis 
Skraap, Pullus. Feroensibus 
Liere. Brunnich, 119. 
Manks Petrel. Br. Zool. 146. 
Tab. M. Arct. Zool. ii. 254. 
av. 191. 
THE length of this species is fifteen inches ; 
the breadth thirty-one; the weight seventeen 
ounces. The bill is an inch and three quarters 
long; the nostrils tubular, but not very promi- 
nent; the head, and whole upper side of the 
body, wings, tail, and thighs, are of a sooty 
blackness; the under side from chin to tail, and 
inner coverts of the wings, white; the legs 
weak, and compressed sideways, dusky behind, 
whitish before. 
These birds are found in the Calf of Man, 
and as Mr. Ray supposes in the Sczlly-isles : 
they resort to the former in February ; take a 
short possession of the rabbet burrows, and 
then disappear till April: they lay one egg, 
white and blunt at each end; the young are fit 
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