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A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



PUFFINUS PUFFINUS 



337. Puffinus puffinus puffinus (Bninn.)— THE MANX SHEAR- 

 WATER. 



Pbocellaria Puffinus Briinnich, Orn. Bor., p. 29 (1764 — Faeroes, 



Norway). 



Procellaria anglorum Temminck, Man. d'Orn., ed. 11, p. 806 (1820 — ■ 



St. Kilda, Man, Orkneys). 



Puffinus anglorum (Temminck), Yarrell, iv, p. 21 ; Saunders, p. 741. 



Description. — Adult male and female. Winter and summer. — ■ 

 Whole upper-parts black, on nape a few white filoplumes frequently 

 projecting beyond contour feathers ; lores and in front of eyes 

 speckled greyish-white ; eyelids greyish-white ; under-parts white ; 

 from base of lower mandible, lower edge of ear-coverts and down 

 sides of neck and sides of breast, feathers tipped or barred near 



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The Manx Shearwater (Puffinus p. puffinus). 



tip, mottled or very finely speckled slate -grey, occasionally a few 

 feathers across lower -throat with slate tips ; flanks often minutely 

 and lightly speckled slate and lower feathers with patch of brown- 

 black at tip on inner webs ; tibial feathers black ; under tail- 

 co verts white but lateral feathers with outer webs black (or mostly 

 black or slate and black) and inner webs usually more or less finely 

 speckled or mottled slate -grey ; axillaries white sometimes with 

 broad black penultimate band, sometimes only mottled dark 

 slate-grey at tip and rarely pure white ; under wing-coverts white, 

 those along edge of wing with black or slate -black bases and shafts 

 or outer webs ; tail black ; wing-feathers black, inner webs shading 

 from brown to white at base ; all wing-coverts black. This plumage 

 is acquired by complete moult Aug.-Sept. ; one completing moult 

 April. (Very few in moult examined.) 



