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PALMIPEDES. 



Family PROCELLAJRIID^. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Puffinus. (Brisson.J 



AECTIC 

 CINEREOUS SHEARWATER. 



Puffinus" major. 



Tvffmus major, Faber; Prodromus der Island, 1822. 



" " Temminck; Manuel, vol. iv, p. 507, 



1840. 



" cinereiis, Audubon; 'Eeo, Auct. 



Fuffin cendre Arciique, Of the Feench. 

 Grosser Grauer Puffin, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Head and scapularies of the same dark 

 brown as the wings; nape light grey, forming a kind of collar; 

 throat and sides of neck pure white. Length of dry skin from 

 end of beak to tip of tail nineteen inches; carpus to tip of 

 wing twelve inches and a half; beak from gape two inches; 

 tubular nostrils half an inch; tarsi two inches; middle toe and 

 claw three inches. 



This Arctic species which, according to Yarrell, has 

 been taken in the British Isles, I introduce here for 

 the purpose of comparison with the Algerian species 

 last noticed. Thev are A^ery distinct, and must not. 



