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Ir it should ultimately appear that the bird obtained by Mr. Strickland from the Tees mouth, and charac-

terized by him, in the I roceedings of the Zool. Soc. for 1832, under the new specific title of Puffinus fuliginosus,

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is identical with the young of Puffinus cinereus, a circumstance which is by no means unlikely: and if a

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and which we have figured, we have to observe, that these two birds, although agreeing in their admeasure-

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ments with each other, differ slightly from a specimen of Puffinus cinereus sent to us by M. Temminck as an
undoubted example of that species, Mr. Strickland’s specimens being less in all their admeasurements ; and

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could we have discovered any difference in the markings of their plumage, we should have had no h esitationin

regarding them as distinct: as it is, we have here figured both Mr. Strickland’s birds as one and the same
species, but with a mark of doubt as to their being examples of the true Puffinus cinereus.

The range of the true Puffinus cinereus according to M. Temminck is very extensive : “it is spread through-
out the Mediterranean, it often appears on the southern coast of Spain and on those of Provence, where
many individuals have been killed. It is never seen in the Adriatic. Specimens killed in Senegal and those
from the Cape of Good Hope differ in no respect from those killed in Provence. The habits and manners
as well as the food of this species do not differ from those of its nearly allied species the Manx Sh r-
water, Puffinus Anglorum, which, as is well known, feeds on all kinds of marine animal matter in a state of
putrescency.

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