. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . e, with fine grey brown stripes on eachfeather; head, neck, mantle, and all the wing covertsgreyish white, with brown spots, darker than the underparts. Tail dotted and marbled with very dull brown,the two outer feathers whiter than the others, the twomiddle feathers almost entirely brown, all barred atthe tips with a broadish brown band. Wing primariesblackish brown, with clearer tips; beak blackish; basisof lower jaw flesh-coloured; feet the same; iris clearbrown. Mr. Beaumont then makes some very just remarksabout the a
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . e, with fine grey brown stripes on eachfeather; head, neck, mantle, and all the wing covertsgreyish white, with brown spots, darker than the underparts. Tail dotted and marbled with very dull brown,the two outer feathers whiter than the others, the twomiddle feathers almost entirely brown, all barred atthe tips with a broadish brown band. Wing primariesblackish brown, with clearer tips; beak blackish; basisof lower jaw flesh-coloured; feet the same; iris clearbrown. Mr. Beaumont then makes some very just remarksabout the absurdity of creating the genuis Xema fordark-headed Gulls with thin beaks, and naively asks,where are we to place this giant of black heads, withthe beak of Larus and the dark head of Xema. My figure is from the English specimen in the lateMr. Rosss collection, a drawing of which, with consent, has been taken for this work by theRev. F. Wright, of St. Stythray, Cornwall, to both ofwhom my best thanks are tendered. The figure of the e^,§ is from 109 PALMIPEDES. Fainihj PROCELLARIIDyE. Genus Puffinus, Generic Characters.—Beak as long or longer than the head,slender, straight, depressed at its base, very compressed andhooked at its extremity; inferior mandible pointed, and curvedat its point like the superior; nostrils basal, oval, openingby two distinct tubes; legs middle sized, almost in the centreof gravity of the body; a small space above the knee naked;tarsi compressed and reticulated; feet webbed; hind toe replacedby a very sharp claw. Wings long, the first primary thelongest; tail round or conic, and composed of twelve quills. AL(3^EEIANCINEEEOUS SHEARWATEE. Pi(/ffinus cinereus. Puffcnus cinereux, Cuvikr, not Gmelin. Nectris cinerea, Keyseeling and Blasius. Puffinus huhlii, BoiE; Isis, 1835, p. 257. ProceUaria puffinus, Temminck; Manuel, 2nd. Edition, 1820, and Pujjinus cinereus, Man., cendre, Of the French. Orai
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