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GLACIAL PINTADO. 



(Daption gelidum.) 



Da. cinereo-ccerulescente, dorso nigricante, gula jugulo pectoreque 



albis, rostra Jiavo, pedibus cceruleis. 

 Ashy-blue Pintado, with the back dusky, the throat, jugulum, 



and breast white, the beak yellow, the tips blue. 

 Procellaria gelida. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 564. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2. 822. 

 Glacial Petrel. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 399. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 



174. 



Inhabits the most southern regions, chiefly in the 

 Antarctic Circle itself: it is in length nineteen inches : 

 its beak is yellow, with its nasal tube, the top of the 

 under mandible, the tip of the lower, and the edges of 

 both, black : the top of the head, including the cheeks, 

 and the hind part of the neck to the shoulders, are pale 

 bluish-ash colour : the rest of the upper parts of the 

 plumage is dusky-black : the chin, fore part of the 

 neck and breast, are white : the rest of the under 

 parts pale cinereous, or ash colour : the legs and 

 webs are blue ; the under parts of the last white : 

 the claws black. 



