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PROCELLARIA PUFFINUS. 
SHEARWATER PETREL. 
Above black, beneath white; legs rufous. 
Procellaria Puffinus, Lin, Gme. 
Le Puffin, Buffon. 
Puffinus Anglorus, Raii. 
Le Petrel Puffin, Sonn. 
Manks Puffin, Edwards. 
Puffin Petrel, Wood. 
Shearwater Petrel, Pen. Lath. Rew. 
Mont. 
PROVINCIAL. 
SKRABE, MANKS PETREL, LYRIE, 
LYRE, LYAR. 
This species measures in length fifteen 
inches, and its alar extent thirty-one. 
The female takes possession of a rabbit 
burrow, or other hole, and deposit therein 
one white egg, blunt at each end. 
