LEVANTINE 
SHEARWATER. 
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,„E I,E,A»TINE SHF,«W.™. rur.mES VFEKOm»»S. 
Procellaria yelkouati, Acerbi, Bibl. Mus_'^ixv. p. 379 
Puffinus yelkonanus, Salvin, Cat. B. Brii. 
(1896). 
idult “'•■-“jyts mdet tail- 
or, r„Sydis'k;i., own aJ T«aU»gC.., .S-nches; 
culmen, I '5 ; wing, 9 i , 2 7 > ‘ ’ 
A..,. .0 the «»>- '^'5 
inches ; wing, g'o- 
„A„„t.„.-When the under sS”r- 
this species is ‘i“’ ‘S*'e„5. This chaructet, limy- 
eTeT’se'eras not' always to be constant, so ^J^brown 
for the identification of P. of the tarsus 
lower flanks, and, above all, the greater e 
(i-8 inch), and the middle toe 0 95 > y^-,\dd\c toe only 
water the tarsus measures 1 75 inch, ana 
1*8 inch. 
TxTTTi cnpcimens of the Shes^rws^tcr 
Kange in Great , /British Museum, one from Torbay 
from Uevonshire are in the 1 > enpries nrobably occurs 
and another froni ^ 'been confounded with 
more often than is suspected, and has oecn 
the ordinary P- ptffinus. 
Range outside the buT'appeam to wander 
of the Mediterranean and ts. 
north occasionally, when it visits the g 
HaMta-Doubtless similar to those of P p«ffinus. 
Nest.— Doubtless in similar situations to that of the Manx 
Shearwater. 
Eggs. — One. 
Doubtless similar to that of P- puffiiws. 
