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Lev. Mu/.
|* | E N G T H thirteen inches. Bill an inch and a half long,
black: all round the bafe of the bill, the chin, and throat,
pale filvery grey, marked with minute dufky fpecks : top of the
head, and all the upper parts Of the plumage, wings, and tail,
dufky black, inclining to hoary on the back: tail rounded at the
end : wings and tail even: the under parts of the body hoary
alh-colourlegs very pale: the webs for one third the fame }
the reft to the end black : joints of the toes black.
Said to inhabit North America.
Le Petrel blanc, ou Petrel de Beige, B iif Oif. ix. p. 314.
Snowy Petrel, Forft, Boy. i. p. 96.— Cook’s.Boy. i. p. 33.
Br. Mu/. Lev. Mu/.
jg IZ E o f the Pintado Petrel: length one foot. The bill is an
inch and a quarter long, the colour black, inclining to blue
at the bafe; the tube which contains the noftrils comes pretty
forward on the upper mandible, which is much curved at the
end : the whole plumage of a pure white, the lhafts of the feathers
black : the wings exceed the tail 'in length: legs of a dark
fea-green, or blue, with pale webs: claws long, and crooked.
This is found in the colder parts of the Jouthern regions, off
the ifland of Georgia *, Terra del Fuego, and other parts; but no
where in fuch plenty as in the neighbourhood of ice, or within a
few leagues of it, and proved to be the forerunner of falling in
with the fame; and on the icy maffes themfelves thefe birds
were often in confiderable flocks.
* For/. Ob/ p, 72,— Voy, i. p, 98,-—Cook's Boy. i, p. 23.
L E N G T H
T E N G T H eleven inches. ' Bill an inch long, black, with
the tip yellowilh : the plumage on the upper parts of the
body greenilh alh-colour, deepeft on the crown: the Tides of
the head, taking in the eyes, and all the under parts of the body,
white: the ridge of the wing almoft black: quills and tail dulky;
the laft rounded at the end, and tipped with dark brown: the
legs brown: webs yellow: claws black: when the wing is expanded
there Appears a dark band from tip to tip, quite acrofs
the body.
Inhabits the IJle of Befolation. In the colledion of Sir Jofeph
Banks.
T E N G T H eleven inches. Bill black, an inch long, and
■L ' hooked at the tip : irides pale alh-colour: head and neck of
a footy black: but the body in general tinged with brown, not
unlike the colour of the Swift: the rump is brown: the under
parts of the body much like the upper, but paler: the ridge of
the wing mixed with alh-colour : the tail is fomewhat forked in
lhape, but the feathers themfelves are fquare at the ends; their
colour, and that of the quills, deep black: the wings, when
clofed, exceed the tail a trifle in length : legs flender, an inch
long., and black.
Inhabits Qtaheiie• In the collection of Sir Jofeph Banks •
* In a drawing in the poffeffion o f the fame, each web o f the toes was marked
With a yellow Ipot.
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