. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. FULAIARS, SHEARWATERS, AND PETRELS 83 SOOTY SHEARWATER Puffinus griseus Hiiiicliii) Other Names.—Ulack Hag; Black Ilasdon; Dark- bodied Shearwater. General Description.— Leiigtli. 10 tu 18 inches: spread of wings. 40 inches. Phimagc, dark sooty-brown above and below. Color.— I'nijiiym dark sooty-brown, blackening an zcings and tail; more sooty-gray below with paler throat; bill, dusky-bluish horn, the tube, ridge, and bill blackish: inside of leg and upper side of feet, flesh \linihcr 95 color; outside of outer toe and under side of feet, blackish.
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. FULAIARS, SHEARWATERS, AND PETRELS 83 SOOTY SHEARWATER Puffinus griseus Hiiiicliii) Other Names.—Ulack Hag; Black Ilasdon; Dark- bodied Shearwater. General Description.— Leiigtli. 10 tu 18 inches: spread of wings. 40 inches. Phimagc, dark sooty-brown above and below. Color.— I'nijiiym dark sooty-brown, blackening an zcings and tail; more sooty-gray below with paler throat; bill, dusky-bluish horn, the tube, ridge, and bill blackish: inside of leg and upper side of feet, flesh \linihcr 95 color; outside of outer toe and under side of feet, blackish. Nest and Eggs.— Nest: Probably a burrow in the ground on sea islands of the South Atlantic, a single white egg being deposited at the end of the burrow. Distribution.— Oceans of southern hemisphere; occurs in summer on the Pacific coast from southern Alaska to Lower California, and on the Atlantic coast from Gulf of St. Lawrence to South Photograph by H .'iL'day. Page & Co. SOOTY SHEARWATER 1 foreground 1 AND GREATER SHEARWATER CORY'S SHEARWATER Puffinus borealis C orv A. (I r .\iimljer 88 -Length, 20 inches: spread of Color above, brownish-ash; General wings, 40 to 45 inches, below, white. Color.— Upper parts, brownish-ash; feathers of back, with pale tips ; those on nape and sides of neck nar- rowly tipped with white; the ash on sides of head and neck and white of under parts gradually mingle: iif's of upper tail-coverts, zi'liite: under eyelid, white in contrast with ashy-gray of head ; wings and tail, brown- ish-gray ; sides and flanks, tinged with ash ; under tail- coverts, white, the longest tinged near ends with ash which extends nearly to tips of the longest tail-feathers ; bill, greenish-black, yellow at base and on tip; feet, greenish-black; iris, brown. Nest and Eggs.— Laiknown but prol)ably similar to others of the genus. Distribution.— Coasts of Massachusetts. Rhode Island, and Long Island (August to November). Somewhat
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