The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . cinereus; Proc. puffinus, Gm.)—Ash-coloured above, whitish beneath, with thewings and tail blackish ; the young rather more deeply coloured. Its size is nearly that of a Crow, and it isfound almost everywhere, [but rarely so far north as on the British shores]. A smaller species was long confounded with it, black above and white below, the Manks Shearwater (P. anglo-mm), which inhabits the northern shores of Scotland and its isles in immense numbers, and whic
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . cinereus; Proc. puffinus, Gm.)—Ash-coloured above, whitish beneath, with thewings and tail blackish ; the young rather more deeply coloured. Its size is nearly that of a Crow, and it isfound almost everywhere, [but rarely so far north as on the British shores]. A smaller species was long confounded with it, black above and white below, the Manks Shearwater (P. anglo-mm), which inhabits the northern shores of Scotland and its isles in immense numbers, and which the inhabitantssalt for winter provision. [A third (P. obscurus, Vieillot) has occurred in Britain, and there are two or threemore, further south.] Navigators sometimes mention, under the name of Petrels, certain birds of the Antarctic seas, whichshould make two particular genera. One is The Haladrome {Haladroma, Illiger),—Which, with the beak and form of the Petrels and Shearwaters, has a dilatable throat like the Cormo-rants, and entirely wants the thumb, as in the Albatrosses. Surh is Pr. urinatrix, Gmelin. Tlie other is.
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