Order ANSEEES.] 



PELECANOIDES BEEARDL 



(BERARD^S DIVING-PETREL.) 



[Fam. procellaeiid^:. 



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Procellaina herard^ Quoy et Gaim. Voy. Uran. Zool. p. 135 (1824). 

 Haladroma herardii^ Temm. PI. CoL 517 (1831). 

 Pelecanoides berardii, Gray, Gen. of B. iii. p. 646 (1844). 



Ad. similis P. urinatrici, sed rostro tenuiore, pedibus flavicantibus, palmis nigricantibus 



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Adult. Similar to P. urinairixj but with a more slender bill^ and having the legs and feet yellowish, with 

 dark webs. Length 7 inches ; wing, from flexure, 4*25 ; tail 1*5 ; bill, following the curvature of upper 

 mandible '6, from gape to extremity of lower mandible '8; tarsus *75 ; middle toe and claw Tl. 



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I HAVE taken the above description from a specimen obtained by Mr. Henry Travers on Pitt's 

 Island, in January 1872, this being my authority for admitting the species into our list of birds. 

 It is very closely allied to P. urinatrix\ and its habits of life are doubtless the same. 



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