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THE LAEID^. 



(P. Farsteri or carulea), Fig. 112, commonly called the Blue 

 Petrel, wliicli inhabits the Antarctic seas. 



Under the name of Puffins those species of Petrels are included 

 which have bills as long, and sometimes longer, than their heads, 

 and their nostrils in two distinct tubes. Among these are the 

 Grey Puffin [Pufinus cinereus), which is very common in the 

 Mediterranean, and builds its nest in Corsica ; the English Puffin 

 {Puffinus anglorutn), which inhabits the northern regions of our 

 hemisphere; the Brown Puffin {Procellaria cequinoctialis) , which in- 

 habits the Southern Ocean, and is frequently met with at the Cape. 



Fig. 113. — The Common Albatross (Diomedea cxulans, Linn.). 



The Albatross * is the largest and most bulky of all the birds 



which fly over the surface of the sea. It belongs principally to the 



southern hemisphere. The sailors know it under the names of Cape 



Sheep and Man-of-war, which they give it on account of its 



enormous size. Its extended wings measure as much as five 



* From the Portuguese word Alcatraz, applied by the early navigators of that 

 nation to Cormorants and large sea-birds. — Ed. 



