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which is larger and quite white below. Of the first Darwin says ' 
that it “never leaves the quiet inland sounds. When disturbed 
it dives to a distance, and, on coming to the surface, with the 
same movement takes flight. After flying by the rapid movement 
of its short wings for a space in a straight line, it drops as if 
struck dead, and dives again.” The egg is deposited in a small 
burrow; the note is a cackle or moan. 
Fossil remains are recorded from the Pacific, Australia, and 
New Zealand, which are referred to the genera Pufinus, Ossifraga, 
and Diomedea, and probably belong to existing species; Pujinus 
conradit is from. the American Miocene, P. eyermani from 
Tavolara, off Sardinia; but a much more remarkable fact is the 
discovery in the Suffolk Red Crag of portions of a distinct form, 
named Diomedew anglica by Mr. Lydekker.? 
1 Voy. ‘* Beagle” (1890 ed.), p. 351. 
> Quart. J. Geol. Soc. xlii. 1886, pp. 366, 367. 
