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ALLEN’S naturalist’s LIBRARY. 
Adult Female— Similar to the male. Total length, itk inches- 
wing, i2'o “ ’ ' a 
Characters.— The present species is distinguished by its 
sooty-brown colour, both above and below, the under win- 
coverts being white with dusky shafts to the feathers. ° 
Range in Great Britain. — An accidental visitor. “ Identified 
examples have been,” says Mr. Saunders, “obtained— in our 
summer and autumn— at North Berwick, in Scotland, and 
Yorkshire: 
uhile several have been taken in the Channel as far west as 
Cornwall, though the bird is evidently less abundant there 
than us larger congerier, P. gram. In Ireland specimens 
have been secured on the coast of Kerry and in Belfast Lough, 
while others have been observed.” ^ 
Range outside the British Islands. — According to Mr. Osbert 
Salvin, the present species is generally distributed throughout 
hemispheres, from the Faeroe Islands in the 
North Atlantic, and the Kuril Islands in the North Pacific 
to the Straits of Magellan and the Auckland Islands Its 
breeding places are in the south, and its northward migrations 
are performed during the southern winter, when it stnlVp! 
into the North Atlantic Ocean. straggles 
Hahlts.-Of the life of this Shearwater, but little has 
been recorded. Sir Walter Buller, in his “Birds of New 
Zealand, writes : — " 
“ It is a common species in the New Zealand seas and is 
Sfacenf'cSr^lt and on the 
adjacent roast. _ It is _ also comparatively plentiful on the 
sland of Kapiii, where it is found breeding as late as March 
On the island of Kareiva and on the Rurima Rocks, large 
numbers annually breed, sharing their burrows with the 
luatera Lizard, and submitting, season after season, to have 
their nests plundered by the Maoris, who systematically visit 
the breeding-grounds when the young birds are sufficiently 
plump and fat for the calabash. ^ 
“Mr. Merchant informs me that he found this species 
breeding in burrow's near the summit of the island of Kapiti 
about the end of February, The excavations were in peaty 
