52 THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA 



Forehead, a stripe over the eye and entire under surface white; bill 

 black. Total length about 8 inches, wing 5.8, tail central 2.75, lateral 

 3.15, bill 0.9, tarsus 1.9, middle toe 1.35. 



Nest: If in hard ground, a short burrow about 18 inches 

 long is made ; but often under thick matted herbage. One white 

 egg is laid, but many have fine reddish freckles in the apex; it 

 measures about 1.41 x 1.06 inch. These little birds nest on Mud 

 Island, in Port Phillip, as well as on many of the islands in Bass 

 Strait. They leave their young during the day and return to 

 them during the night to feed them. 



The Black-bellied Storm Petrel. 



Fregetta melanog aster. 



Southern Ocean, northward to Bay of Bengal, and in Atlantic to 

 Tropic of Cancer. 



Sooty black, greater wing coverts paler; base of feathers of throat 

 and under tail-coverts, flanks, upper tail-eoverts and under wing-coverts 

 white; rest of plumage black. Total length about 8 inches, wing 7, 

 tail 3.2, bill 0.9, tarsus 1.6, middle toe 1.03. Amount of white on throat 

 varies. 



Nest usually in crevices or under rocks. One white egg is 

 laid, with minute purplish-brown freckles, which are very 

 numerous on the larger end. It measures 1.30 x .98 inch. 



The White-bellied Storm Petrel. 



Fregetta grallaria. 

 Seas of Southern Hemisphere, north to coast of Florida. 

 Sooty-black; back and scapulars greyish, each feather edged with 

 white; rump, upper and inner under wing-coverts white. 



Family Puffinidce. 



Nostrils united externally, or nearly so, above the culmeri; 

 second primary not longer than the first. 



Suh-family Puffininm. 

 Sides of the palate without lamellee. 



