Plate CCLXXXIII. Male.
Bill yellowish-green, with the tips brownish-black; feet light
greenish-grey, webs and claws yellowish flesh-colour; upper parts deep
brown, the hind neck paler, and tinged with grey; primary quills and
tail brownish-black; lower parts greyish-white, lower wing-coverts
white, those next to the edge of the wing greyish-black towards the
end, axillary feathers white, greyish-brown toward the end, lower
tail-coverts similar.
_Male_, 20, 45.
Common off the shores, from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to that of
Mexico. Abundant off Nova Scotia. Ranges to a great distance at sea in
autumn and winter.
Puffinus cinereus, Bonap. Syn. p. 370.
Cinereous Puffin, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 334.
Wandering Shearwater, Puffinus cinereus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
iii. p. 555.