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lark ; high on its legs ; altogether brown except the 

 rump, which is white, and a white stripe at the end 

 of the gi'eat wing-coverts. When this bird seeks an 

 asylum in the rigging, it is a sign of a storm. 



Proc, Leachii, Tern. Jour. Acad. Phil. vj. 

 pi. 9,f.l. 



Bluish- black ; head and neck, ashy-black ; tail-coverts 

 and wing-band, white ; tail, naked, forked, as long as 

 the wings ; claws, foleate, acute, deflexed. P. Fu- 

 ligmosa, Lath. .'' P. Atlantica, Bonap. MSS. Tar- 

 sus, one inch ; nostrils, straight ; length, eight in- 

 ches. 



Proc. Wilsonii, Ch. Bon. 

 Wilson Amer. vij. "JO, 6. Id. Jour. Acad. Phil, 

 vj. pi. 9, f. 2. 



Sooty-black ; vent and upper tail-coverts and tips of 

 wing-coverts, white ; tarsus, one inch and a half long ; 

 tops of nostrils, recurved ; tail nearly even, rather 

 shorter than the wings ; base of web, yellow. Length, 

 seven inches. The P. Oceania, Forster, Icon. t. 12, 

 Cop. Kuhl, Beitr. t. 10, f. 1, and Licht. For- 

 ster, who described the wing-coverts white edged, 

 and the base of web yellow. 



P. Grallaria, Licht. P. Oceania, Bonap., not Forster, 

 PI. Enl. t. 993. 



Tail, slightly niched, one inch shorter than the closed 

 wings ; tarsi, one inch and three-quarters long, brown- 

 ish-black ; belly, vent, flank, and some under wing- 

 coverts, and upper tail-coverts, entirely white ; nostrils, 

 tips recurved ; webs, black. Pacific Ocean. The P. 

 Echasse, Tern, is this and the former combined. East 

 Indies. 



