THE TASMANIAN MUTTON BIRD 



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The Pink-footed Shearwater. 



Pufflnus carncipes. 



Dark sooty brown. Bill, legs, aud feet, flesh colour. Tail, rather 

 short and rounded at the end. Length of the wing 12.5 in.; of the tarsus, 

 2.25 in. Egg — 2.S in. iu length. Australia aud the northern parts of 

 New Zealand. 



Allied Shearwater. 



{Meyer.) 



The Tasmanian Mutton Bird. — Hakoakoa. 



Pufflnus tejiuirostris. 



Sooty brown. The under wing coverts, brownish. Bill, horn colour. 

 Legs and feet, yellowish. Length of the wing, 10.4 in.; of the tarsus, 

 2 in. Egg — 2.5 to 2.9 in length. Australian and New Zealand seas. 

 Also Japan and Samoa. It is by no means a common bird in New 

 Zealand. 



The attention of naturalists lias frequently been turned to the 

 habits of these birds, especially to their gregariousness and flights. 

 A recent writer states that on the eastern coastline of Victoria the 

 mutton birds arrive in countless thousands, coming in immense 

 flocks, and reaching their rookeries within a few hours of the 

 same date every year. In the middle of November, in 1902, for 

 instance, there was no sign of a mutton bird on Phillip Island, 

 which faces Bass Strait and the Southern Ocean. But, on the 



