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under parts bluish-white : the secondaries are white, 

 tipped with dark brown ; the quills are dark brown, 

 with some of the webs of those nearest the body white : 

 the rump and tail are white, the latter tipped with 

 black : the legs are dirty lead-colour. 



Met with, in small flocks, throughout the greater 

 portion of the navigable part of the southern regions. 



SNOWY PINTADO. 



(Daption niveum.) 



Da. album rachibus pennarum nigris, rostro pedibusque cceruleis. 

 White Pintado with the shafts of the feathers black, the beak and 



legs blue. 

 Procellaria nivea. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 562. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2. 823. 

 Le Petrel blanc, ou Petrel de neige. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 



314. 

 Snowy Petrel. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 408. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 



186. 



Length one foot: beak black, inclining to blue 

 at the base, and an inch and a quarter long : the 

 entire plumage is of a pure snowy white, with the 

 shafts of the feathers black : the wings are somewhat 

 longer than the tail : the legs are dark blue, with 

 pale webs : the claws long. 



Found in great plenty among the ice of the southern 

 regions, and also in the seas adjacent : also off the Isle 

 of Georgia, and Terra del Fuego. 



