schlegel's petkbl, 



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Schlegel's Petrel. 



CEstrelata neglecta. 



New Zealand seas principally. 



Crown of the head and hind neck sooty brown, mixed on the latter 

 with white, the rest of the upper surface brownish black; around the 

 eyes is a faint mark of brown which fades away on the face; all the 

 under surface white; quills with white shafts and white on the inner 

 webs; tail feathers white at the base. Total length 15.5 inches, wing 12, 

 tail 4, tarsus 1.5. 



Schlegel's Petrel: Oestrelata neglecta. 



Tom IredaJe. 



It would be well to quote from Tom Iredale's account of 

 birds found on the Kermadec Islands in the "Emu," vol. x, 

 July, 1910, p. 14:— 



"During winter, however, Meyer Island is covered with 

 birds, while none are found on Sunday Island. The darkest 

 birds have the whole of the plumage of a dark blaek-grey — 

 these are the birds Hutton called philippi, gray; the lightest 

 have the head and all the under parts pure white — Hutton 

 separated this as leucophrys. Between these two extremes every 

 phase of plumage exists; the dark birds bred with the light 



