566 CLASS AVES. 



rounded, as long as the wing ; claws, rounded ; feet, 

 yellow. Kuhl Beitr. t. 10, f. 12. Forster MSS. 

 t. 92. Kuhl arranges it with the Puffins. 



Brown-banded Petrel. Proa. Desolata, Lath. 



Ashy-black ; forehead, orbits, and beneath, white ; 

 tail and quills, black tipt ; tail, wedge-shaped, as long 

 as the wings ; tarsi, shorter than the middle toe. Kuhl 

 Beitr. t. 10, f. 7. 



Turtle Petrel. Proc. Turtur, Forster. 



Grey ; eye-streak, and beneath, white ; tail and 

 quills, black tipt ; tail, longer than the wings ; 

 claws, square ; tarsus, as long as the middle toe ; bill 

 and feet, pale. Length, nine inches. Pr. Velox. 

 Banks, MSS. Cop. Kuhl, Beitr. 1. 10, f. 8. 



Grey Petrel. Procellaria Grisea, Lath. P. Lugens, 

 Banks, MSS. t. 21,22. Forster, MSS. t. 93. Kuhl, 

 Beitr. t. 10, f. 9. 



Body and lower wing-coverts, ashy-black ; feet, pale ; 

 tail, rounded, as long as the wings ; claws, falcate ; 

 bill, compressed ; black nasal tube, globose. Antarctic 

 Seas. 



Some small species, with the bill a little shorter, 

 and the legs a little higher, with the plumage black, 

 Thalassidroma, Vigors, are most especially known 

 to sailors by the name of stormy birds, or Mother 

 Carey's chickens. 



Stormy Petrel. Proc. Pelagica, Briss. vi. 13, 1. Wil- 

 son's Amer. vij. 59, 6. Edw. 90, 

 Is the most common, and is not much bigger than a 



