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■expanded, a dark band, as in the broad-billed fpecies: the
wings, when clofed, are fomewhat longer than the tail: the legs
are blue: the webs pale.
Thefe fly in flocks, and inhabit the Southern Ocean, from 47
to 58 degrees of latitude. Capt. Cook fuppofes thefe to be the
female to the broad-hilled; but the bill has no degree of breadth to
juftify it; and the colours of the plumage, on comparing them
•together, immediately deteft the difference.
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PACIFIC P. Sr. Muf-
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T E N G T H twenty-two inches: breadth forty inches. The
■*“' bill is two inches in length, of a lead-colour, and much
hooked at the tip : in the place of a tube the noftrils only appear;
they are fituated obliquely, of an oval fhape, a little elevated,
and placed an inch and a quarter from the bafe : the upper
parts of the plumage are black, the under dufky : legs pale
on the infteps, where they are marked with fome black fpots.
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and a few others on the toes and webs.
Inhabits Euopoa, and other iflands of the Pacific Ocean. Said to
fly in innumerable flocks. Difappear at once, dipping under
water all together, and then rife as fuddenly..
s DUSKY PBr.
Muf.
T E N G T H thirteen inches. Bill an inch and a half; the fides
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of it horn-colour, otherwife black; in the ufual place of the
tube are only two fmall holes, ferving for noftrils; the point of
ihe bill hooked: the upper parts of the body are dufky black -
the
the under white : on the lides of the neck brown and white
mixed : the edges of the middle wing coverts are whitilh : the
legs are placed quite in the vent, and are, for the molt part, black,
except the inlide, which is pale the whole length: and the two
inner toes yellowilh : the webs orange-colour : claws black.
Inhabits Chriftmas IJland. One of thefe, meafuring lefs by
two inches in length, is in the Leverian Mufeum, faid to have come
from King George’s Sound, on the American Coafi.
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