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DAPTION. PINTADO. 



Generic Character. 



Rostrum subgracile, capite 

 brevior, ad apicem haud 

 dilatatuni ; mandibula su- 

 periore adunca, inferiore 

 recta, truncata. 



Nares tubulatae. 



Pedes mediocres ; unguis 

 posticus loco pollice. 



Beak slender, shorter than 

 the head, not dilated at 

 the tip; the upper man- 

 dible hooked, the lower 

 straight, truncated. 



Nost?-iIs tubulated. 



Legs moderate ; a claic only 

 in place of the hinder toe. 



PROCELLARIA. Linn., Gmel., Lath. 



JL HE Pintados appear to form a genus distinct from 

 the rest of the Petrels, inasmuch as the beak is more 

 slender and rather shorter than the head, than in the 

 Fulmars, and the tip of the under mandible is not 

 bent down as in the true Petrels and in the Shear- 

 waters ; again, from the Prions they are distinguished 

 by the beak not being depressed and armed at its 

 edges with slight denticulations, and from the Halo- 

 dromes by possessing the rudiments of a hinder toe 

 which is furnished with a claw, of which those birds 

 are destitute. They are all apparently natives of the 



