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of eyelids dark grey; iris brown. Feet light greenish-grey, webs and claws 
yellowish flesh-colour. The upper parts in general are deep brown, the hind 
neck paler and tinged with grey ; the primary quills and tail brownish-black. 
The lower parts are greyish-white ; the lower wing-coverts white, those next 
the edge of the wing greyish-black towards the end, the axillary feathers 
white, greyish-bi’own towards the end, lower tail-coverts similar. 
Length to end of tail 20 inches, to end of wings 21-J, to end of claws 
21£ ; extent of wings 45 ; wing from flexure 134 ; tail 5 ; bill along the back 
2 t 4 o, along the edge of lower mandible 2f ; tarsus 2£ ; middle to.e 2J, its 
claw L Weight 1 lb. 91 oz. 
THE HANKS SHEARWATER. 
Puppinus ANGLORUM, Ray. 
PLATE CCCCLVII.— Adult. 
Although I have procured this species to the westward of the banks of.. 
Newfoundland, or between their soundings and the American coast, I am 
unable to say anything of importance respecting its habits as observed by 
myself. This species formerly inhabited a small islet close to the Isle of 
Man, but appears to have now entirely deserted it. In the Orkneys, how- 
ever, it is still abundant, and the eggs and young are in much request there. 
It arrives in March, and, when the young are able to fly, betakes itself to 
the open sea, disappearing towards the approach of winter. The British 
writers who have described it inform us, that it stands nearly erect, flies 
with great rapidity, feeds on marine animal substances of all kinds, and, 
when taken, squirts out an oily fluid from its nostrils in the manner of the 
Petrels. It is said to breed in burrows, and to lay only a single egg, of a 
white colour and elliptical form, about the size of that of a domestic fowl. 
Puffincs anglorum, Bonap. Syn., p. 3*71. 
Shearwater Petrel, Nutt. Man., vol. ii. p. 336. 
Manks Shearwater, Puffinus anglorum , Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. iii. p. 004. 
Adult, 15, 32. 
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