28 OCEAN BIRDS. 



Capt. Hutton iu considering this bird to be allied to the members of the genus Pujjiims. 

 Crown of the head, ear-coverts, nape and upper surface, tips of the tail-feathers, tips of the 

 under tail-coverts, and the primaries, dark brownish grey ; throat, chest, and under surface, 

 white ; irides dark brown ; culmen and nostrils black ; tip of the upper mandible blackish 

 horn-colour ; tomia whitish horn-colour ; lower part of the under mandible blackish horn- 

 colour; feet white, tinged with blue, the outer toe brownish black." There is a remarkable 

 likeness between this bird and the Greater Shearwater {Pujfinus major) of our own latitudes. 

 Seebohm tells us a Great Grey Petrel was caught at Swaffham,* in Norfolk, in 1850. 

 Mr. Salvin, on the Procellariidce collected by H.M.S. 'Challenger' (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, 

 p. 737), says: — " Adanastor cinereus (565 female; 566 male). South Pacific, 5th Nov. 1875. 

 Eyes hazel ; feet flesh-colour ; the stomach of one was full of the beaks of cuttlefish ; stuff 

 from the ship in the other, and small Crustacea." In Lord Lindsay's Expedition Mr. Saunders 

 calls it " Whale-bird." I have often noticed that different ships have different "sailors' names" 

 for sea-birds. In the same way Mr. Saunders calls the Giant Petrel " Cape Hen." 



Silvery-grey Petrel (Thalassoica glacialoides). — This bird, of the genus Fidmarus, is 

 almost invariably called at sea the Fulmar Petrel, though as a fact the Fulmar Petrel 

 (Procellaria glacialis) does not appear south of the line. Certainly they are much alike, 

 but the bill in my specimen is longer and thinner than that of the Fulmar. Its wings 

 also are longer, and its body lighter. It is, in fact, the southern-seas type of our Fulmar 

 Petrel, and so somewhat differently constituted in order to meet its somewhat different life. 

 They are easily taken with hook and line in the ordinary seafaring fashion. The one now in 

 my collection I caught in lat. 42-48" S., long. 69-43° E., and its dimensions are as follows: — 

 Beak, one inch and seven-eighths long; wing from anterior bend, thirteen inches and a half; 

 length of body, fifteen inches. The general characteristics of the bird are thus defined by 

 Gould : — " All the upper surface and tail delicate silvery grey; outer webs, shafts, a line along 

 the inner webs and the tips of the primaries, and the outer webs of secondaries, slaty-black ; 

 face and all the under surface, pure silky-white ; irides brownish black ; nostrils, culmen, 

 and a portion of the base of the upper mandibles, bluish lead-colour ; tips of both 

 mandibles fleshy horn-colour, deepening into black at their points ; remainder of the 

 bill pinky flesh-colour; legs and feet grey, washed with pink on the tarsi, and blotched 

 with slaty-black on the joints." In the voyage of H.M.S. 'Challenger' they were met 

 with in the Ice Barrier. 



=■= A marvellous part of tlie coiintry for rare bii-ds. In 1885 I received from Mr. Juliu Tenu, for my collection of British 

 birds, a White-tailed Eagle and a Montagu's Harrier, shot by his keeper close to Swah'ham ; also seven ihtlereut species 

 of duck.— J. F. G. 



