PETREL. 185 



M. Tern mi nek considers this as totally distinct from the Common 

 Shearwater, and I most readily join him in that opinion. These, as 

 well as other Puffins, serve the inhabitants for food. 



14.— WHITE-FACED PETREL. 



Puffinus cinereus, Bris. vi. 134. t. 12. f. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 39G. Ind. Orn. 824. 11. /3. 

 Le Petrel cendre, Buf. ix. 302. pi. 20. 

 Brown Shearwater, Kalm. Trav. i. p. 23 ? 

 Shearwater Petrel, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 407. 11. Var. A. 



SIZE of the Shearwater. Bill one inch and three quarters long s 

 black; hind part of the head cinereous white; the rest of the upper 

 parts of an elegant ash-colour; fore part of the head, and under part 

 of the body, pure white; bastard wing spotted with black; quills 

 outwardly black; tail white; legs grey brown. 



Inhabits the northern regions, and is probably the Brown Shear- 

 water, with a white ring round the neck, which Kalm saw every 

 where from our channel to the American coast. He says, it has a 

 peculiar slow way of flying, and may be plainly seen to feed on fish,* 

 and though this bird is thought by many to be peculiar to the 

 Northern Seas, we are assured it abounds no where more perhaps 

 than about Cape St. Vincent, which is the most southern point of 

 Portugal, and forms the entrance of the Straits mouth ; and like the 

 Petrel, it also visits the Bay of Gibraltar, and has been found dead 

 on the strand ; probably from meeting with the same fate with the 

 Auks, by swallowing the fishermen's baits.f 



15 —BLACK-TOED PETREL. 



Procellaria melanopus, Ind. Orn. ii. 824. Gm. Lin. i. 562. 

 Black-toed Petrel, Gen. Syn. vi. 408. 12. Arct. Zool. Sup. p. 73. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill one inch and a half; all round 

 the base, the chin, and throat pale, silvery grey, marked with minute 



* Kalm. Trav. i. p. 23. f White. 



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