114 



rf-TREt, 



Skua. 



G AN NET. 



NORFOLK ISLAND. 



The Grey Petrel, Latham, vi. 399. PhiU'ip, 161. tab. 25. is of s 

 footy brown above, and deep afh beneath. The zvbite-breafed, 

 Latham, vi, 400. The Pintado, vi. 401. Edzv, 90. is a third.. 

 The Shear IVater, Br. ZooL ii. N' 258. 



The Diving, vi. 413. dufky above, white beneath, not nine 

 inches long ; fits on the water, in vaft flocks, croaking like frogs 

 and cackling like hens ; it dives with amazing agility. 



Finally, to this clafs may be added the broad-billed, vi. 414. 

 with diftinft noftrils, fwarming either among the woods in bur- 

 rows about the roots of trees, or in the crevices of the rocks, 

 making; an inceflant noife like the former, and at times bufied in 

 its nimble divings in queft of food. All thefe fpecies are to the 

 fouthern regions what the Auks are to the northern. 



I HAVE omitted two Britijlj birds frequent in thefe remoter 

 parts, the SkiiaX and the variety of the Gannet^, with black fea- 

 thers in the tail, known by the name oi Suda Hoieri. 



In refpe(5t to quadrupeds there are only tw^o, the Rat and 

 the Flying Squirrel\ Uijl. ^ad. ii. N° 352. the membranes extend 

 from leg to leg ; the color is grey ; a black line extends from the 

 nape, along the middle of the back, to the tail, the farther half 

 of which is black. 



There is little doubt but all the pelagic birds of thefe Lati-- 

 tudes frequent the coafts, Albatrojfes, both the cojnmon and the 

 yelloiv-nofed, and various other fpecies. Our navigators of the 

 year 1774 were the firft of the human race who ever landed on 

 this ifland. The birds which bred on fliore, fuch as the Boobies, 



jBr, Zool. ii. N" 248. 



§N'620. 



Jl Phillip, 15. plate 17. 



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