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Title: The birds of Europe
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Gould, John, 1804-1881
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London, Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, pub. by the author
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the Puffinus obscurusis equally confined to the southern, and rarely found further north than the Mediterranean, on the Europeanshores of which sea most of the European examples have been procured. It is more abundant on the shoresof Africa, extending from the Cape of Good Hope to its northern boundary: Africa then may be consideredas its natural habitat. The sexes do not appear to differ in external appearance, nor are the young of the first year distinguishedby any particular plumage. In habits and manners this species is supposed closely to resemble the Puffinus Anglorum, but on thesepoints little or nothing is at present known. Crown of the head, ear-coverts, all the upper surface, wings and tail sooty black ; sides of the face andthroat transversely marked with indistinct lines of the same colour; all the remainder of the plumage white ;bill lead-colour at the base, becoming black towards the tip; feet olive; external web light olive.We have figured an adult of the natural size.
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g? -^ % N^& fe> & & 5 < 5~- m Ifl c ® £ m d CO P P 3 - PH y i CINEREOUS SHEARWATER. Puffinus cinereus, Steph.Le Petrel Puffin. If it should ultimately appear that the bird obtained by Mr. Strickland from the Tees mouth, and charac-terized by him, in the Proceedings of the Zool. Soc. for 1832, under the new specific title of Puffinus fuliginosus,is identical with the young of Puffinus cinereus, a circumstance which is by no means unlikely; and if abird apparently in the adult plumage, subsequently obtained by the same gentleman, should prove to be theadult of this species, we shall have, with the addition of a specimen obtained by Mr. Selby, three examplesof British-killed specimens of this species. With respect to the specimens forwarded by Mr. Strickland,and which we have figured, we have to observe, that these two birds, although agreeing in their admeasure-ments with each other, differ slightly from a specimen of Puffinus cinereus sent to us by M. Temminck as an

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