ORDER PALMIPEDES. 569 



colour. Its size is that of a crow. It is found in 

 nearly all the seas. 



Manks Petrel. Procel. Ariglorurriy Tern. Edw. 359, 

 which has been for a long time confounded with 

 Proc. Puffinus. It is about the size of the wood- 

 cock ; black above, white beneath, which inhabits in 

 countless flocks the northern coasts of Scotland and 

 the neighbouring islands, and which the inhabitants 

 salt for winter provision. 



Dusky Petrel. Procel. Ohscura, Vieill. Gal. 301, 



Brownish-black ; beneath, white ; tail, rounded, sub- 

 equal, longer than the wings ; claws, sharp ; bill, 

 slender ; feet, yellow. Kuhl Beitr. 1. 10, f. 11, head, 



Pacific Petrel. Proc. Pacifica, or Fuliginosa, White, 

 252, which is probably not different from Proc. 

 yEquinoctialis, Edw. 89. 



Sooty-black ; throat, white ; tail, wedge-shaped, 

 rounded, shorter than the wings ; feet, black ; claw 

 of hind toe very large ; tarsi, shorter than the 

 middle toe. Length, eighteen inches. Edw. t. 29, 

 and Kuhl Beitr. t. 10, f. 5, head. 



P. Fulginosa, Bank, not Lath. Kuhl Beitr. t. 10, 

 f. 6. 



Sooty-black ; tail, wedge-shaped, as long as the wings ; 

 hind toe, large ; tarsi, shorter than the middle toe ; 

 bill, compressed, black ; nostrils, short. Length, six- 

 teen inches. 



