MANKS' SHEARWATER. 



(Piiffinus Anglorum.) 



Pu. corpore supra nigro, suhtus albo, pedibus rujis. 

 Shearwater with the body above black, beneath white, the legs 

 red. 



Puffinus Anglomni. Raii Syn. 134. A, 



Procellaria Puffinus. Br'iss. Orn, 6. 131. Brun. Orn. Boreal, 

 no. 119. 



Le Puffin cendre. Ciiv. Re^. Ajiim. 1. 516. 

 Manks' Puffin. Edw. Glean.pl 379. 



Shearwater Petrel. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2, 258. Penn. Arct. Zool. 

 2. 462. Leiv. Brit. Birds, 6. pi 218. Wale. Syn. 1. pi 90. 

 Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. and Supp. Bexv. Brit. Birds, 2. 246. 

 Lath. Gen. Hist, x. 181. 



Length fifteen inches : the beak is dusky-brown : 

 the top of the head, the nape, and the upper parts of 

 the body, the wings, tail, the thighs, and the margins 

 of the under tail-coverts, glossy black ; the under parts, 

 from chin to vent, white : the legs weak and com- 

 pressed ; brown, with the webs yellowish. 



The Shearwater is found in greater and less pro- j 

 fusion in most of the northern regions of the globe : it J 

 is particularly abundant in the Calf of Man, a small I 

 islet near the south of the Isle of Man : and also in 1 

 the Hebrides. In the former place it appears in 

 February ; during the breeding season it takes pos- 

 session of the rabbit burrows, and lays one white egg, 

 blunt at each end ; the young are hatched early in 

 the summer, and are fit to be taken about the begin- 

 ning of August, when great numbers are killed for 



