414 P E T R E L .
'well *, arifing often at confiderable diftances, with amazing agility.
They croak like frogs, and fometimes make a noife like the
cackling of a Hen. Known by the name of Ufee-tee.
20.
BROAD-BILLED
P.
* * S P U R IO U S , W I T H T H E N O S T R I L S D I S T I N C T ,
Le Petrel bleu, Buf. Oif, ix. p. 316.
Vittatied Petrel, Forji. Voy. 1. p. 153.—-Ob/, p. 199.
Blue Peteril, Cook’s Voy. 1. p. 29.
Lev. Mu/.
D e s c r i p t i o n . C I Z E of a finall Pigeon : length twelve inches. The bill blue
grey, an inch and a quarter in length, and near an inch broad
at the bafe j both mandibles bent at the points; the edges finely
ferrated j at each noftril a diftinft very fhort tube: the tongue
is very large and flelhy, and fills up the whole of the bill, conforming
to the lhape of it: the colour of the plumage is blueilh
afh on the upper parts; and fome of the feathers are brown in
the middle : the fides of the head, and under parts of the body,
white : beneath the eye a dulky black ftreak : the quills, and the
ends of the fix middle tail feathers, dulky, almoft black: when
the wings are expanded a dark band appears from the tip of one
wing to the other, crofiing the back : the legs are black.
The female has the fame plumage; but the bill, though greatly
exceeding that of any other Petrel, is fcarcely more than half
the breadth of that of the. male.
P l a c e a n d
M a n n e r s .
Thefe were feen all over the Southern hemifphere, from 2 8 degrees
upwards. Met with in Hujky Bay, and other parts of New
* Thefe are the Little Diving Petrels- See For ft. Key. i. p. 189. 503.—Diving
Petrels Ihew the proximity of land. Id. i. p. 483,
i Zealand.
P E T R E L .
Zealand. On the north-weft part of Anchor Ifle found in immenfe
numbers, among other fpecies ; fome on the wing, and others in
woods, in holes in the ground clofe to one another, or under
the roots of trees and crevices of rocks ; making a noife fimilar
to the croaking of frogs j and fly much at night, fo as to be
taken for Bats. Thefe were not to be feen in the day-time, but
at three o’clock in the morning were very aftive, being diving
throughout the day, at fea, in queft of food *. Dr. Forfter ob-
ferves, that thefe birds are exceedingly well furnilhed with cloath-
ing> equal to the Penguin; for “ their plumage was amazingly
tc abundant, and increafed their bulk in a great proportion ; and
“ two feathers, inftead of one, proceeded out of every root,
“ lying within one another, and formed a very warm cover-
*e ing f . "
Blue Petrel, Forß. Voy. i. p. g i .
Another Blue Peteril, Cook's Voy. i. p. 32. BLUE* P
Br. Mu/.
J ^ E N G T H twelve inches. Bill an inch and a quarter, blue, D e s c r i p t i o n .
with a black tip ; middle of the bend yellow : the upper parts
of the plumage blue grey, but paler than the laft: under parts
white : beneath the eye a patch of dulky : on the bread a dulky
band : the greater quills are fomewhat darker than the reft; and
the inner webs of fome of them nearly white : the tail the colour
of the back, but the outer feather is white j the next white within
; the reft tipped with white: acrofs the body, and wings when
* Forß. Voy. i. p. 153.— 01/. p. 199.— Cook’s laß Voy. i. p. 86.
•Jr Forß, Voy, i. p, 103.
expanded,