tlie Maories, who hold them over their months in order to
swallow the oily matter which is disgorged. The old birds
roost on shore, and are very noisy during the night. The
food of this species is probably of the same nature as that
of its congeners.
In the bird from which the upper figure on p. 12 was taken,
the hill is dark brown, the base of the under mandible lighter
brown ; irides dark brown; head and neck all round, and
the hack, dark clove-brown ; scapulars and tertials the same,
hut with lighter-coloured margins; upper wing-coverts,
primaries, and tail-feathers blackish-brown ; undei wing
coverts, breast and belly greyish hair-brown, each feather
much darker in colour on the margin than over the centre ;
legs brown on the outer surface, but pale wood-brown on the
inner; toes and their membranes yellowish-brown. The
whole length of the bird is seventeen inches and one-quarter ;
wing, from the anterior bend, twelve inches and three-
quarters; whole length of the bill one inch and three-
quarters ; of the tubular portion half an inch ; of the tarsus
two inches ; of the middle toe, including the claw, two inches
and five-eighths. Like other Petrels, this species exhibits
considerable variation in size; in Mr. Nelson’s bird the
whole length is eighteen inches; the wing from the carpal
joint thirteen and a quarter inches; bill two inches; tarsus
two and a half inches. *
tubinares. p r o c e l l a r i i b m .
P u f f in u s anglorum (Temminck*).
THE MANX SHEARWATER.
Puffinus anglorum.
The Manx Shearwater is the commonest species of the
genus in the British seas, and as the period of incubation
approaches it resorts to many portions of our coast, generally
selecting small islands which are seldom made the residence
of man. It owes its trivial name to Willughby, who speaks
of it as the Puffin of the Isle of Man, where in his time, and
until a comparatively recent date, it was abundant on the
small island off the south-western extremity, known as the
Calf of Man. In this locality it is believed by Mr. Crellm
to have been extirpated by rats. Mr. T. Dix, writing in
1869, says that it breeds in numbers on Caldy Island, ott
Tenby, as well as on Skomer and Skokhum, two smaller
islands to the northward (Zool. s.s. p. 1681) ; and a few
* Procellaria anglorum, Temminck, Man. d’orn. n. p. 806 (1820).