The Petrels. 



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Islands and the New Hebrides, where it is found in the mountains burrowing into 

 the turf for a nesting place. The egg, however, has not yet been described. It 

 is a small species, measuring only ten-and-a-half inches in length, with a wing of 

 eight inches. It is slat_v-grey in colour, both above and below, and the upper 

 tail-coverts are of the same tint, but the throat is white as well as the forehead, and 

 the cap is dusk_y-blackish. 



This species is distinguished by its sooty-black colour and its 

 wedge-shaped tail. The nasal tubes are separate and directed 

 forwards, and are flesh-coloured at the ends. One specimen is 

 said to have been procured in Yorkshire. The species is an 

 inhabitant of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and it breeds 

 in the Desertas Islands. The birds make no nest, but lay their single white egg 

 in a hole or under a rock. 



A single specimen of this Albatros was captured near 

 Linton in Cambridgeshire, on the gth of Jul\', iJSgy. It is an 

 inhabitant of the Southern Oceans, but occasionall}- stra3-s into 

 the North Atlantic, and has been observed near the Faeroe 

 Islands, where a specimen was obtained in 1894. 



BULWER'S 



PETREL. 



{Bulwii'ia biilivtri.) 



Sc- p. 215. 



THE 



BL.^CK- BROWED 



.\LBATROS. 



[Diumedea 

 milanophrys.) 



Thk Black-urowkd .\miatros. 



