. The birds of the Japanese Empire. Birds. ^* i* "I. \iesA oi Puffinusgnseus. Natural size. The Sooty Shearwater was obtained by Mr. Snow on the Kurile Islands (Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 33). It was procured by him as far north as Urup Island (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 106), whence there are several examples in the Hakodadi Museum. An example formerly in my collection is'now in the British Museum. The Sooty Shearwater breeds in the Southern Hemisphere in the Pacific, and probably in the Indian Ocean and the South Atlantic. It has frequently occurred on the British
. The birds of the Japanese Empire. Birds. ^* i* "I. \iesA oi Puffinusgnseus. Natural size. The Sooty Shearwater was obtained by Mr. Snow on the Kurile Islands (Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 33). It was procured by him as far north as Urup Island (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 106), whence there are several examples in the Hakodadi Museum. An example formerly in my collection is'now in the British Museum. The Sooty Shearwater breeds in the Southern Hemisphere in the Pacific, and probably in the Indian Ocean and the South Atlantic. It has frequently occurred on the British coasts, and may be regarded as a non-breeding summer visitor to the North Atlantic and the North Pacific. Its only known breeding-place is on the Chatham Islands east of New Zealand, but there can be little doubt that other breeding-grounds remain to be Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seebohm, Henry, 1832-1895. London, R. H. Porter
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