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THE TUBE-NOSED SWIMMERS — TUlilNAllES. 



in 1850 a correspondent of mine — Pr. Freie, of London — sent me a number of 

 fine specimens of the eggs of this si)ecies procured on tlie group of small islands 

 near Madeira known as the Desertas. lie informed me that they had been taken in 

 burrows made by the bird in the soft earth under overlying bowlder-rocks, and in deep 

 crevices in the cliifs. The eggs are of an oblong oval sliape, of nearly ecpial size at 

 either end, pure white in color, and measure about 1.05 inches in length by l.L'O in 

 breadth. They are variable in size, differing in length from 1.59 to 1.7G inclies, and 

 in breadth from 1.17 to l.L*3. 



Gknus DAFTION, Stkpukxs. 

 Daption, Stei'Hen.s, Shaw's Ooii. Zool. XIII. 1S25, 239 (typi.', J'ruivllaria aipoisis, Lisx.). 



Chaii. Size iixMlium ; bill sliDrter than the tarsus, ik-iirusswl, its lateral outliiius .somewhat 

 coiive.x, the mantlibular rami widely separated and bowed outward, the intervening space occupied 

 by a naked, somewhat distensible skin ; nasal case about three fourths as long as the unguis, 

 depressed, e.\cept anteriorly, its upper outline gently but decidedly concave ; sei)arated from the 

 unguis by a space eiiual to about two thirds the length of the case. I'himage spotted with white 

 and dusky above, innnauulate white below. 



A single species, the well-known " Caj)e Pigeon," or " Pintado," constitutes this very distinct 

 genua. 



p Daption capensis. 



THE PINTADO FETBEL; CAPE PIOEON. 



Proccllaria capensis, Lixs. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 132 ; cd. 12, I. 17()(), 213. 



iJapUoii capmsis, Sri;rni;Ns, Shaw's Ocn. ZddI. XIII. 1825, 241. — ISosai'. Coiisp. II. 1850, 188.- 

 I.AWU. ill liiiinl's W. X. Am. 1858, S2S. — lUiun, Cat. X. Am. li. 185i), no. 631). — Coriis, Pn 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. riiiliul. ISGO, 102 ; Key, 1872, 328 ; Check List, 1873, no. 581. — liiuuw. Xoiii, 

 N. Am. 15. 1881, no. 71!>. 



Daptium miwnse, CofKs, 2d Check List, 1882, no. 818. 



Proccl/aria Hccvia, Buiss. Oni. VI. 1700, 140, no. 3. 



Pruccllaria piiHctalti, Ellman, Zool. 1801, 7473. 



IIab. Oceans of the southern hemisphere ; accidental on coast of California? 



Sp. Cuah. Adult: Lower jiarts (except sides of throat and chin), lump, ujiper tail-coverts, 



basal two thirds of the tail, the greater portion of the 

 scapulars and secondaries, white ; the hack, runi]i, upper 

 tail-coverts, and scapulars marked with deltoid spots of 

 dark sooty plumbeous. Head and neck (except miildlc 

 of the throat), unirorm dark sooty plumbeous ; wiiii,'s 

 chiefly sooty idumlieous, the inner primary coverts and 

 inner webs of the primaries chielly white, and the cov- 

 ert.s, with much white at their buses, chiefly concealed ; 

 terminal third of the tail uniform sooty jibunbeous, 

 forming a wide, sharply defined terminal zone, liiil 

 uniform dee]> black ; legs and feet dusky in the diiid 

 skin, the inner and middle toes apjjarently varied with 

 flesh-color or yellowish in life. 



Wing, 10.2.5-11.00 inches ; culmcn, ahout 1.25 ; tarsus, 1.75 ; middle toe, 1.85, 



The I'intado Petrel is, without much doubt, entirely accidental on the Pacific 

 coast, if it occurs there at all, and its usual residence is the South I'acific, South 

 Atlantic oceans, and the Antarctic seas. It was added to our fauna by Mr. George 



