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THE ANIMALS OF NEW ZEALAND 



4. Tail feathers twelve. Priofinus. 

 Tail feathers fourteen. Priocella. 



5. Bill more or less yellow. Majaqueus. 

 Bill black. ffistrelata. 



6. Large : tail with sixteen feathers. Ossifraga. 

 Smaller: tail with 12 or 14 feathers. 7 



7. Black and white. Daption. 

 Pale grey above, white below. 8 



8. Tip of the tail, white. Halobasna. 

 Tip of the tail, dark. Prion. 



Genus Puffinus. 



Tarsi distinctly compressed, the anterior edge sharp. Nasal 

 tube low ; both nostrils visible from above, directed forwards and 

 slightly upwards. Tail feathers twelve. Cosmopolitan. 



Key to the Species. 



The Long-tailed Shearwater. 



Puffinus hulleri. 



Upper surface dark grey; the under surface white. Outer half of the 

 inner webs of the primaries white. Tail, long and cuneate. Bill, dark 

 horn colour; legs and toes, yellowish. Length of the wing, 11.3 in. ; 



of the tarsus, 2 in. New Zealand only. Very few specimens have as yet 

 Ibeen obtained. 



The Wedge-tailed Shearwater. 



Puffinus chlororliynclius. 



Sooty brown. Bill, flesh colour: the tip dark. Legs and toes, flesh 

 colour; the outer, darker. Length of the wing, 11.6 in.; of the tarsus, 

 1.8 in. Indian and Central Pacific Oceans. In New Zealand found only 

 in the Auckland district. Egg — 2.5 in. in length. 



