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along the outer web, or mottled with ashy vermiculations, mostly confined to the 

 latter ; head white, shading off into light ashy-grey on the hind-neck and sides 

 of neck, these parts varied with dusky-grey cross-lines, imparting a waved appearance ; 

 fore-part of crown and lores pure white ; a patch of black in front of the eye, encircling 

 the latter, and extending a little beyond it ; cheeks and sides of face white, mottled 

 with a few blackish and ashy-grey crossbars ; entire under-surface of body pure white, 

 including the under tail-coverts ; sides of fore-neck and chest light ashy-grey, not 

 extending across the latter ; sides of neck mottled with cross-lines of dull ashy ; sides 

 of body faintly streaked with ashy-grey shaft-lines ; under wing-coverts dark ashy- 

 brown, with hoary whitish margins, the feathers round the edge of the wing rather 

 darker, but not forming a conspicuous black band ; axillaries ashy-grey, white for the 

 basal half, the smaller ones white, freckled with ashy-grey towards the ends ; quills 

 dusky-brown below, grey along the inner web, which is edged with hoary white ; 

 the secondaries entirely ashy-grey below ; " bill black ; tarsi and half the toes and 

 webs fleshy- white ; tips of toes and their webs black ; iris black " (J. Gould). 

 Professor Giglioli states that the bill is black, the tarsi and basal half of the feet are 

 flesh-colour, the remainder black ; the iris brown. 



The specimen mentioned above from Antipodes Island (January 13th, 1906) had 

 the " iris black ; legs and feet flesh-colour, the terminal half of the outside web black." 

 Dr. Kidder gives the colours as follows : — " Tarsus and foot fleshy-pink, black along 

 the upper-surface of the digits, and on the web near the claw ; irides very dark brown." 

 Sir Walter Buller says that the colour of the tarsus and a portion of the feet are " dull 

 yellow ; the outer toe of each foot and a diagonal patch across the webs black." 

 Total length about 18 inches ; culmen, 1.55 ; wing, 12.0 ; tail, 5.8 ; tarsus, 1.7 ; 

 middle toe and claw, 2.5. 



The specimen described is in the Rothschild Collection, and was obtained on 

 Kerguelen Island, on January 10th, 1898. The bird figured is from the Antarctic seas, 

 and is now in the British Museum. 



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