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PALMIPEDES. 



Fainihj PROCELLARIIDyE. ' fBonajmrte.J 



Genus Puffinus, fBrisson.J 



Generic Characters. — Beak as long or longer than the head, 

 slender, straight, depressed at its base, very compressed and 

 hooked at its extremity; inferior mandible pointed, and curved 

 at its point like the superior; nostrils basal, oval, opening 

 by two distinct tubes; legs middle sized, almost in the centre 

 of gravity of the body; a small space above the knee naked; 

 tarsi compressed and reticulated; feet webbed; hind toe replaced 

 by a very sharp claw. Wings long, the first primary the 

 longest; tail round or conic, and composed of twelve quills. 



AL(3^EEIAN 

 CINEEEOUS SHEARWATEE. 



Pi(/ffinus cinereus. 



Puffcnus cinereux, Cuvikr, not Gmelin. 



Nectris cinerea, Keyseeling and Blasius. 



Puffinus huhlii, BoiE; Isis, 1835, p. 257. 



ProceUaria puffinus, Temminck; Manuel, 2nd. Edition, 



1820, and Pujjinus cinereus, Man., 



1840. 

 Puffin cendre, Of the French. 



Oraiier Pvffin, Oe the Germans. 



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