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among the large beds of kelp along the coast. The young are 

 fed with grass, sea-weed, &c. 



The flight of this and the other species of Fuffinus diflFers 

 considerably from that of the ProcellaricB in being straighter 

 and performed close above the surface of the water ; it is 

 moreover so exceedingly rapid, that Mr. Davies states it can- 

 not be fairly estimated at less than sixty miles an hour. 



The sexes are so much alike that they can only be distin- 

 guished by dissection. 



The whole of the plumage sooty brown, the under surface 

 much paler than the upper ; bill blackish brown tinged with 

 olive J the under mandible with a longitudinal mark of vinous 

 grey ; irides brownish black ; outer side of the tarsi and outer 

 toe brownish black ; inner side of the tarsi and two inner toes 

 vuious grey ; webs yellowish flesh-colour, becoming blackish 

 brown towards the extremity. 



Sp. 637. NECTRIS CARNEIPES, Gould. 

 Flesh Y-rooTED Petrel. 



Puffinus carneipes, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part xii. p. 57. 

 Majaqueus carneipes, Reich. Syst. av., tab. xxiv. fig. 2601. 

 Priofinus carneipes, Bonap. Compt. Rend, de l^Acad. Sci., 1856. 

 Nectris carneipes, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., torn. ii. p. 201 ; Nectris, 

 sp. 2. 



Puffinus carneipes, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. vii. pi. 57. 



This species of Petrel flies over the seas bordering the 

 southern and western coasts of Australia, and resorts amons 

 other places to the small islands off Cape Leeuwin for the 

 purpose of breeding ; it was here that the specimens and eggs 

 contained in my collection were procured. It difl'ers from the 

 Nectris brevicaudus in the greater length and in the more 

 square form of its tail, and in the light or fleshy colour of its 

 bill and legs. 



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