CINEREOUS SHEARWATER. * ^^7 



food : they are salted and barreled. They depart 

 about September. 



During the day they keep in their holes, and to- 

 wards evening go out fishing and return to their 

 young, which they feed by ejecting the oily con- 

 tents of their stomach into their mouths while in the 

 nest. 



CINEREOUS SHEARWATER. 



(Puffiims cinereus.) 



Pu. supra cinereus subtus albus, caudd nigricante, rostra Jiavo, 



pedibus cinerascentibus. 

 Shearwater above ash-colour^ beneath white, with the tail dusky, 



the beak yellow, and the legs greyish. 

 Petrel Puffin. Temm. man d'Orn. 2 Edit. ii. 805. 

 Procellaria cinerea. GyneL Syst. Nat. 1. 563. Lath. Ind. Orn, 



2. 824. 



Cinereous Petrel. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 405. Lath. Syn. Sup, ii. 



335. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 183. 

 Young. — Procellaria Puffinus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 213. Gmel. 



Syst. Nat. 1. 566. Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. 824. 

 Le Puffin. Biif. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 321. Buff. PI. Enl. 962. 



This is rather a large bird, being upwards of twenty 

 inches in length : its beak is yellowish, with black 

 sutures : irides cinereous : the upper parts of the 

 plumage are chiefly dusky ash-colour : the crown of 

 the head and forehead palest : the under parts from 

 the chin are white : the tail is rounded and black ; 

 its under surface pale cinereous : legs bluish : toes 



