MONOGRAPH OF THE PETRELS. 



dark, as also the throat and fore-neck ; general colour of upper surface rich sooty- 

 brown." 



I am unable to state the origin of the specimen here figured, as Salvin left 

 no memoranda on the subject. There are no adult birds in any museum in this 

 country, so that it is probable that the Plate was drawn from an example lent by the 

 Paris Museum, or from the actual type in the U. S. National Museum. From both 

 these institutions many valuable specimens of Petrels were lent for the purposes of 

 the present work. 



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