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FORK-TAIL P.
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Fork-tail Petrel, Ar3 . Zoo!. N° 463.
Lev. Mu/.
f E N G T H ten inches. Bill black, three quarters of an inch
in length ; the upper rmnd-ibk very- hooked at the end, and
the tube of the noftrils reaches fome way on the top of i t : general
colour of the plumage a dark frlvery grey, palefi: beneath: the
chin very pale grey: vent white: on the forehead and crown is a
mixture of brown : the inner ridge of the wing dulky black : the
quills are of a blackifh grey : the fecondaries paler grey on the
edges : the tail coverts are pretty long: and the tail itfelf the
colour of the quills, and forked in fhape; the outer feather white
on the outer web: the wings, when clofed, equal the tail in>
length : the legs are black.
Found among the ice, between AJia and America.
Procellaria fregata, Lin.Syfi. i. p. 212. 2.
T E N G T H eight inches and ahalf. Bill one inch j. {lender, and
not greatly hooked: the top of the head,, and hind part of the
neck, as far as the fhoulders, blueilh alh-colour: back and wing
coverts brown: rump hoary blue : hides of the head above the
eye, and all the under parts, white : under the eye a trace of
blueilh alh-colour: the tail, when fpread, feems hollowed out in
the middle, but fcarcely what may be called forked : legs black:
on the middle of each web a yellowilh mark.
Such is the defeription of a bird among the drawings of Sir
Jepfh Banks, which I liken to that mentioned by Linnaus, of
which,
which he merely fays, that it is lefs than the Stormy P etrel,
black above, and white beneath.
Found in latitude 37 fouth. In a fécond drawing, I obferve P l a c é .
the rump to be very pale, nearly approaching to white.
Procellaria pelagica, Lin. Syjl. i, p. 2 ia . 1 .— Faun. Suet. N ° 143.— Aman. l3 ,
Acad. iv . p . 587.— Scop. Ann. i. N ° 95.— Muller, N» l^ y— And. led. *" STORMY P -
ii . pi. 1.
L e Petrel, Brif.Orn. vi. p. 140» 1. p i. 13. fig. 1.
L ’Oifeau de tempête, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 327. pi. 23.— PL EnU 993.
Storm-finch, or L ittle Pitterel, Catejb. Car. App. p i. 14.— Edvu. pi. 90.— r
Borlaf. Corn. p. 247. pi. 29.— Albin, iii. pi. 92.— Will. Orn. p. 395.
— Damp. Voy. iii. p. 97.— Br. Zool. ii. N ° 259. pi. 9 1 ,
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf.
jg I Z E of a Swallow: length fix inches : breadth thirteen inches. D INSCRIPTION,
Bill black : the general colour of the plumage is black,
but paler on the under parts, where it inclines to/csZ-colour : the
ends of the fécond quills, rump, and vent, whites and the four
outer tail feathers are white on the inner webs at the bafe : the
wings, when clofed, are half an inch longer than the tail : the
legs are long and black.
Thefe birds are fufficiently common, though feldommet with P l a c e a k o
but at fea * -, and feem to be difperfed all over the Atlantic ocean. Manners.
Flocks of them are for the moil: part feen about the Ihips in full fail,
but particularly in ftormy weather, in the wake of the Ihip, to
which they feem to refort for Ihelter from the violence of the waves.
* One was fliot at Sandwich, in Kent, in a iiorm o f wind, among a flock o f
Hoopoes, in January. Mr. Boys.— A nocher at tKalthamJiow, in Ljjix, now in the
Leven'an Mujenm.— A third has not long fince been ihot at Oxford.
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