SOOTY SHEARWATER. 
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mentioned specimens appear to have been driven north by 
stress of weather, the first bird having been captured on board 
a small sloop, while the Suffolk specimen appeared to have 
been injured by bitting itself against a tree. A third example 
in the British Museum is said to have been shot in Devon- 
shire. It was formerly in Mr. Gould’s collection, whence it 
passed into that of Messrs. Salvin & Godinan (Cf. Salvin, Cat. 
B. Brit. Mus. xxv. p. 384). 
Range outside the British Islands.— According to Mr. Salvin, 
the range of this species extends over the tropical and sub- 
tropical seas of the whole world. 
Hahits.— Colonel Feilden found this species breeding on 
“ Bird ” Rock, off Barbados. 
Nest. None. Laid in a hole in a rock (cf. Feilden, Ibis. 
1889, pp. 60, 503). 
Eggs. — White. Axis, a'o inches; diain., i'4. 
V. THE SOOTY SHEARW.ATER. PUFFINUS GRISEUS. 
Procellaria grisea, Gra. Syst. Nat. i. p. 564 (1788). 
Piiffinus griseus, Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 5231 pi- 616 (1877) ; 
B. d. U. List Brit. B. p. 198 (1883) ; Saunders, ed. Yarrell’s 
Brit. B. iv. p. 17 (1884); Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 427 
(1885); Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 717 (1829); Salvin, 
Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxv. p. 386 (1896). 
Adult Male. — General colour above sooty-brown, with a slight 
greyish shade on the edges of the feathers of the back, less 
distinct on the lower back and rump, which appear darker ; 
wing-coverts rather blacker than the back, with a greyish shade 
on the greater and primary-coverts ; quills blackish, with a 
grey shade externally, the inner webs paler and more ashy ; 
tail black; head sooty black, a little darker than the back ; 
lores and sides of face like the crown ; cheeks and under 
surface of body slaty grey, browner on the sides of body, 
abdomen and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts white, 
witli dusky shafts ; axillaries sooty-brown, like the flanks ; 
quills ashy below ; bill horn-colour; tarsi and toes dark hazel. 
Total length, 18 inches; culmen, i'6; wing, 11 '5; tail, 3'6; 
tarsus, 2'o, 
