Western Bird Guide: Birds of the Rockies and West to the Pacific

by Charles K. Reed

SLENDER-BILLED SHEARWATER.

96. Puffinus tenuirostris. 14 inches.

This is much smaller than the preceding, otherwise resembling it in color and markings, being a little lighter under the throat, and the bill more slender in proportion to the size of the bird. Bill and feet nearly black, as is also the one above.

Nest.—Nesting habits and range of the bird are the same as the [Dark-bodied Shearwater]; it is not found on the N. A. coast as commonly as the other.