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BROWN-BANDED 1'INTADC). 



(Daption desolatum.) 



Da. cineren-ccerulescente subtua album, rectricibus apice Jascidque 



alarum expansarum nigricantibus. 

 Ashy- blue Petrel beneath white, with the tip of the tail-feathers 



and band on the expanded wings dusky. 

 Procellaria desolata. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1 . 562. Lath. Incl. Or a. 



2. 825. 

 Brown-banded Petrel. Lalh. Gen. Hyn. 9. 409. Lath. Gen. 



Hint. x. IS/. 



Found in the Isle of Desolation : its length is 

 eleven inches : beak black, with a yellowish tip, its 

 length one inch : the plumage on the upper parts of 

 the body is greenish-ash colour ; the crown of the 

 head deepest : the sides of the head, including the 

 region of. the eyes, and all the under parts of the 

 plumage, white : the ridge of the wing dirty black : 

 the quills and tail dusky : the latter rounded at the 

 end, and tipped with dark brown : the legs brown : 

 webs yellow, and claws black : when the wings are ex- 

 panded there appears a dark brown band from tip to 

 tip, quite across the body. 



