L 2P2 ANTARCTIC PINTADO. 



usually white of a fine cream-colour; the tail white, 

 with a black tip, and the base of the quills white. 



Common in the Antarctic Seas, and particularly 

 so in the vicinity of the Cape of Good Hope, where 

 they fly in flocks ; and appear occasionally in such 

 prodigious numbers, that several hundreds have been 

 captured in one night : they fly very low, almost 

 touching the surface of the ocean. They feed on 

 fish and the dead carcases of whales, and are very 

 voracious : when caught they will squirt out a quan- 

 tity of oil from the nostrils upon the person holding 

 them. 



ANTARCTIC PINTADO. 



i- (Daption Antarcticum.) 



Da. fuscum sublus albo-ccerulescente, remigibus secunduriis uro- 



pygio caudaque albis, rectricibus apice nigris. 

 Brown Pintado beneath bluish-white, the secondary quills, rump, 



and tail white, the tail-feathers black at the tips. 

 Procellaria Antarctica. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 565. Lath. Ind. 



Or». 2. 822. 

 Le Petrel Antarctique, ou Dander brun. Bujf. Hist. Nat. Ois. 



9.311. 

 Antarctic Petrel. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 400. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 



177. 



Length sixteen inches : beak an inch and a half 

 long, brown, with a black tip : the irides brownish- 

 hazel : the prevailing colour of the plumage on the 

 upper parts of the body is deep brown ; and of the 



