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the Albatros never does. It is the " Mother Carey^s Goose" of 

 Cook, and the ''Nelly" of sailors. It sometimes chases the 

 smaller species, but Mr. Harris has never seen it kill one. Whe- 

 ther or not it can catch birds possessed apparently of powers 

 of flight superior to its own is doubtful; but, supposing one 

 killed, that it feeds only on its heart and liver, I cannot believe, 

 although it is said to do so in the works of many first-rate orni- 

 thologists ; a statement which seems to have been copied from 

 Lord Macartney's ' Embassy to China in 1712,' and since handed 

 down from one naturalist to another as an heir-loom. 



Procellaria ^QuiNOCTiALiSj L. Black Petrel. 



Black, with a white mark, generally crescent- shaped, but very 

 variable, on each cheek. Chin white; beak yellow, with a black 

 tip ; legs and feet black. As the plumage of the bird here de- 

 scribed is intermediate between the P. aquinoctialis of Linnaeus 

 and the P. conspicillata of Gould, I agree with Mr. Gray in 

 ranking them as one species only. It is not known on Prince 

 Edward Islands nor on Kerguelen's Land ; and I have only seen 

 it in the South Atlantic, between lat. 26° S. and lat. 35° S. 

 Among sailors it rejoices in the name of " Stink-pot." 



Procellaria HiEsixATA, Licht. [nee Kuhl)*. Adamastor 

 typus, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 187. A. cinereus, Coues {ex Gm.), 

 Proc. Acad. Philad. 1864, p. 119. Gould, B. Austral, vii. 

 pi. 47. Great Grey Petrel. 



This bird combines the appearance of a Pj-ocellaria with some 

 of the habits of a Puffinus. Its feathers fit very close, and have 

 a glossy look. Like all other Petrels it flies with its legs 

 stretched straight out behind, and, as in this bird they are rather 

 long, they make the tail appear forked. Its cry is something like 

 the bleating of a lamb. The young bird has been figured and 

 described by Dr. Andrew Smith in his * Illustrations of South 



* According to our contributor's wish, we have not altered his nomen- 

 clature. This bird is, however, of ii very different species, and belongs to 

 a very different group, from that which Kuhl, in 1820, described as 

 P. h(Bsitata. The latter, the type of Bonaparte's genus JEstrelata, is from 

 the West Indian Seas (c/. Ibis, 1859, p. 372, note), whence it has strayed 

 both to France (Consp. Av. ii. p. 189) and England (Zool. p. 3691). 



