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SHEARWATER , the name of a See also:bird, first published in F. See also:Willughby's Ornithologia (p. 252), as made known to him by See also:Sir T.,See also:- BROWNE
- BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (18,1–1891)
- BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS (1705-1760)
- BROWNE, JAMES (1793–1841)
- BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY (1705-1757)
- BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)
- BROWNE, ROBERT (1550-1633)
- BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839–1896)
- BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591–1643)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM GEORGE (1768-1813)
Browne, who sent a picture of it with an See also:account that is given more fully in J. See also:Ray's See also:translation of that See also:work (p. 334), stating that it is " a See also:Sea-See also:fowl, which fishermen observe to resort to their vessels in some See also:numbers, See also:swimming 1 swiftly to and fro, backward, forward and about them, and doth as it were radere aquam, shear the See also:water, from whence perhaps it had its name." 2 Ray's mistaking See also:young birds of this See also:kind obtained in the Isle of See also:Man for the young of the coulterneb, now usually called " See also:Puffin," has already been mentioned under that heading; and not only has his name Puffinus anglorum hence become attached to this See also:species, commonly described in See also:English books as the See also:Manx puffin or Manx shearwater; but the barbarous word Puffinus has come into use for all birds thereto allied, forming a well-marked See also:group of the See also:family Procellariidae (see See also:PETREL), distinguished chiefly by their elongated See also:bill, and numbering some twenty species, if not more—the discrimination of which has taxed the ingenuity of ornithologists. Shear-See also:waters are found in nearly all the seas and oceans of the See also:world,' generally within no See also:great distance from the See also:land, though rarely resorting thereto, except in the breeding See also:season. But they also penetrate to waters which may be termed inland, as the See also:Bosporus, where they are known to the See also:French-speaking See also:part of the See also:population as dmes damnees, it being held by the See also:Turks that they are animated by condemned human souls. Four species of Puffinus are recorded as visiting the coasts of the See also:United See also:Kingdom; but the Manx shearwater is the only one that at all commonly breeds in the See also:British Islands. It is a very See also:plain-looking bird, See also:black above and See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white beneath, and about the See also:size of a See also:pigeon. Some other species are larger, and almost whole coloured, being of a sooty or dark cinereous See also:hue both above and below. All over the world shearwaters seem to have precisely the same habits, laying their single purely white See also:egg in a hole under ground. The young are thickly clothed with See also:long down, and are extremely See also:fat. In this See also:condition they are thought to be See also:good eating, and enormous numbers are caught for this purpose in some localities, especially of a species, the P. brevicaudus of See also:Gould, which frequents the islands off the See also:coast of See also:Australia, where it is commonly known as the " Mutton-bird." (A.
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