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part of the neck varied with yellowish feathers. It 

 is said to inhabit Brazil about the mouths of rivers : 

 it is an active bird, swimming and diving well : its 

 flesh is good. 



Rather a doubtful species. 



JEQUINOCTIAL SHEARWATER. 



4- (Puffinus sequinoctialis.) 



Vu.Juscus immaculatus, rostro flavo, pedihusfuscis. 



Brown immaculate Shearwater, with the beak yellow, and legs 



brown. 

 Procellaria cequinoctialis. Linn, Syst. Nat. 1.213. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 564. Lath. hid. Orn. 2. 821. 

 Procellaria pacifica. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 827 ? Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 560? 

 Puffinus Capitis Bonse Spei. Briss. Orn. 6. 137. 

 Le Petrel-Puffin brun. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 326. 

 Pacific Petrel. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 416? Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 



197? 

 Great Black Petrel. Edw. Glean, pi. 89. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 



398. Lath. Syn. Sup. ii. 333. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 173. 



The Black and Pacific Petrels of Latham appear 

 both to be referable to this species : the former he 

 describes as being the " size of a Raven : length 

 twenty-three inches : the beak is three inches long, 

 and the tubes of the nostrils half an inch ; the whole 

 beak is of a yellowish-colour, the sutures of it black : 

 the whole body blackish-brown : legs, toes, and webs 

 brown : claws black." " This varies (he adds) in 



