BLACK-TOED SHEARWATER. 



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Length upwards of a foot : beak black, with its 

 sides horn colour ; its point hooked : the upper parts 

 of the plumage are dusky black, the under white : 

 on the sides of the neck varied with brown and white : 

 the legs of the middle wing-coverts are whitish : the 

 legs are externally black, internally pale : the two 

 outward toes are yellowish : the webs are orange-co- 

 lour j claws black. Inhabits the southern regions of 

 the globe, but appearing occasionally to the north of 

 the equinoctial, having occurred, according to Tem- 

 minck, in the Mediterranean. 



BLACK-TOED SHEARWATER ? 



(Puffinus? melanopus.) 



Pu? cinereo -nigricans J, capistro gidaque griseis maculis minutis 

 nigricantibus, rosti'o toto digitisque dimidiato nigris. 



Dusky-ash Shearwater? with the capistrum and throat grey, 

 minutely spotted with dusky^ the entire beak and half the toes 

 black. 



Procellaria melanopus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 562. Lath, Ind. 

 Orn. 2. 825. 



Black-toed Petrel. Penn. Arct. Zool. Sup. 73. Lath. Gen. Syn. 

 6. 408. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 185. 



Length thirteen inches : beak black, an inch and 

 a half long : round its base, the chin and throat pale 

 glossy grey, minutely speckled with dusky : the top 

 of the head, and all the upper parts of the plumage, 



