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forehead ashy-white, sprinkled with blackish ; feathers below 

 the eye dusky blackish ; sides of face and entire throat white, 

 with a few dusky frecklings on the ear-coverts and borders of 

 the white throat ; under surface of body ashy-grey, lighter on 

 the lower abdomen and under tail-coverts, the long coverts being 

 whitish, freckled with grey ; the chest darker and more slaty- 

 grey, the sides of the breast browner ; axillaries ashy-grey ; 

 under wing-coverts white, the lesser and median coverts slaty- 

 black ; quill-lining ashy-grey ; bill black ; tarsi and proximal 

 half of the toes (except the outer one) yellowish, the rest black; 

 Total length, io"5 inches; culmen, 0*95; wing, 8'i ; tail, ;^-8 ; 

 tarsus, I "I. 



The above description is taken from the British specimen, 

 which belongs to the dark form of the species. Some speci- 

 mens, however, are white below and have a dark grey band 

 across the breast. 



Characters. — The present species belongs to the same section 

 of the genus (Estr-elata as the preceding species. It has the 

 dark outer primary and the wide bill of CE. hcesitata, and the 

 under surface is more or less white ; the crown is slaty-black, 

 and the upper tail- coverts are grey ; the under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries are white, and the wing does not exceed 87 

 inches. 



Range in Great Britain. — A single specimen of this small 

 Petrel has been procured in England. Mr. Willis Bund, 

 by whom the bird in question was presented to the British 

 Museum, states that it was obtained on the coast in Wales 

 between Borlh and Aberystwith at the end of November or the 

 beginning of December, 1889. 



Range outside the British Islands. — Until its occurrence on the 

 British Coast this species was only known as an inhabitant 

 of the Western Pacific Ocean. Specimens from the New 

 Hebrides and the Fiji Islands are in the British Museum, and 

 the original specimens of the species were obtained by Peale 

 on the southern ice-barrier in lat. 68° S. 



Habits. — According to the late John Macgillivray, the 

 "Katebu," as it is called in the New Hebrides, breeds on 

 Aneiteum m burrows on the wooded mountain-tops in the 



