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SOOTY PINTADO? 



(Daption ? fuliginosum.) 



Da? fidiginoso-Jiiscum, capite collo remigibus rectricibusque ni- 

 gris, caudd emarginata. 



Sooty-brown Pintado ? with the head, neck, quills, and tail-fea- 

 thers black, the tail emarginated. 



Procellaria fuliginosa. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 562. Lath. Ind. 

 Orn. 2. 825. 



Sooty Petrel. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6 . 409. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 1 87. 



This bird is eleven inches in length : its beak is 

 black : irides pale cinereous : the head and neck are 

 deep sooty-black ; and the rest of the body brown - 

 black, with the under parts palest : the rump is brown : 

 the ridge of the wing is mixed with cinereous : the 

 quills and tail are deep black ; the latter is slightly 

 forked, and scarcely so long as the wings when closed : 

 the legs are slender, an inch long, and black. In- 

 habits the neighbourhood of Otaheite. 



