50 THE BIEDS OF AUSTRALIA 



The Little Blue Penguin. 



Eudyptula undina. 



Tasmania, New Zealand, Chatham Islands and Southern Australia. 



Above slate-blue, each feather with a brownish grey base and black 

 shaft; throat and underparts white; flippers greyish black, narrowly 

 edged with white on the inner margin, below white. Total length 14-15 

 inches, nasal opening to tip 1.2, gape to tip 1.75, flipper 4.7, tail 1.35, 

 middle toe and claw 1.9. These birds are easily distinguished from the 

 Blue Penguin, being considerably darker in colour and smaller, besides 

 having the under surface of the flipper white. 



Nest either in a hollow under matted vegetation or under 

 rocks or in burrows. Two white eggs are laid, which measure 

 1.98 X 1.54 inch. 



Ordee Tubinares. 

 Oceanic birds with schizognathous palate; the external 

 nostrils produced into tubes; hind toe absent or reduced to one 

 joint, fore toe strongly webbed; oil-gland tufted; bill covered 

 by several horny pieces, separated by deep grooves. Young 

 helpless. 



Family Procellariidce. 



Nostrils united externally above the culmen ; second primary 

 the longest. 



Suh-family Oceanitinm. 

 Leg-bones longer than the wing-bones ; tarsus twice as long 

 as femur; secondaries 10. 



Key to the Genera. 



A. Basal phalanx of mid toe not much flattened. 



Claws sharp. 



Shield scales on front of tarsus obsolete. Oceanites. 



Shield scales on front of tarsus distinct. Garrodia. 



Claws flattened and wide. Pela'^odroma 



B. Basal phalanx of mid toe much flattened. Fregetta (Cymodroma). 



Yellow-webbed Storm Petrel. 



Oceanites oceanicus. 

 Southern oceans and Atlantic ocean as far north as Labrador. 

 Sooty-black, forehead and under surface paler, greater wing coverts 



greyish, upper tail coverts white, under wing coverts and tail black. 



Total length about 6.8 inches, wing 6.1, tail, central rectrioes 2.45, bill 0.7, 



tarsus 1.37, middle toe 1.1. 



