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ORD. Ill, GEN. IV. PETREL. 



SPE. II. SHEARWATER PETREL. 



PI. 219. 



Procellaria puffinus. Lin. Syft. I. p. 213. 

 Le Puffin. Brif. Orn. VI. p. 13 x. 



The (hearwater petrel weighs feventeen ounces, is fifteen inches in length, 

 and in breadth thirty. The bill is nearly two inches long, of a yellowiih co- 

 lour, and black at the point : all the upper part of the body, wings, and tail, 

 of a footy black; and all the under parrs, white: legs, pale orange. 



It breeds in the north of Scotland, and in the Scilly iflands ; laying one 

 white egg, in a hole in the ground, fometimes in a rabbit burrow. It leaves 

 us in autumn, and returns in March. For the egg fee PI. XLVIII. Fig. 2. 



