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in Tasmania is known as the Redbill. Terns and gannets were 

 amongst the birds of the coastal waters. Of New Zealand terns, 

 Sterna frontalis and S. nereis are the species which are seen most 

 frequently. The ' goelette blanche ' may have been Gygis 

 Candida. The gannets may have been ' manches de velours — the 

 name by which French mariners knew the Masked Gannet {Sula 

 cyanops). The body of this gannet is white ; the wings are rich 

 chocolate brown. It is a bird of the tropical and sub-tropical 

 seas of the world and its appearance in New Zealand waters is 

 infrequent. 



From New Zealand the two vessels, now under the 

 command of Duclesmeur, sailed for Guam and thence to the 

 Philippine Islands, but as Crozet's observations on the birds 

 which he saw after he quitted New Zealand are of little 

 importance, we will follow him no further. 



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