RAs TT REE. E. 
Genus) XCVs oP EY DoRe Ei: 
N° 1. Great black P. N° 3.. Cinereous P. 
2.. Norfolk Ifland. P.. 
Procellaria equinoétialis, Ind, Orn. il. p. 821. 3. 
Faliginous Peterel, White’s Voy. pl. p. 252. 
Great Black Peterel, Gen. Syz. vi. p. 398. 3. Var. 
’T HIS is nearly as big as a Raven: the whole bird of a deep footy 
brown or blackifh colour, except that on the chin is a fmall 
patch of white, running down on each fide the lower mandible: the 
legs are dufky: bill pale dirty yellow. 
{nhabits the fea in the neighbourhood of Port Fack/on, in New South 
F¥ales, and. has the fame manners with its congeners.. No one is a 
greater enemy to the 4/datro/s than this bird, whenever it is feen on the 
wing, but quits it as foon.as the A/batro/s takes to the water, fenfible 
no doubt that an encounter on this element would end to its difad- 
vantage. It is however a. ftill greater fcourge to the Broad-billed 
Peirel*, for although multitudes of thefe are deftroyed by it, it only 
devours the heart and liver, leaving the reft untouched; hundreds of 
them thus evifcerated have been. found lying upon the ground in this 
firuation +. 
* Precellaria Forfteri, Ind. Orn. + Embaff. to China, i. 223, 
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