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PETREL. 



GIANT G. 

 Pl. C. 



Description. 



Place and 



Manners. 



Quebrantahueffos, Boug. Voy. p. 63. — Cook's Voy. ii. p. 205. — Forji, Voy. ii. 

 p. 516. — Buf. Oif.'vs.. p. 319. 



, or Ofprey Petrel, Forji. Ob/, p. 202. 



Mouton, Pernet. Voy. i. p. 15. t. 8. fig. 3. (the bill.) 



Offifraga, or Break Bones, Ulloa Voy. 8vo. ii. p. 214. 



Br. Muf. 



IGGER than a Goofe : length forty inches : expands feven 

 feet. The bill is four inches and a half in length, remarkably 

 flout, and the upper mandible very hooked at the end ; the tube 

 on the top of it occupies at leaft two inches and a half from 

 the bafe ; the colour a fine dufky yellow, not unlike that of po- 

 lifhed box-wood : at the angle of the mouth a naked wrinkled 

 yellow fkin : the crown of the head is dufky : the fides of it, 

 fore part of the neck, breaft, and belly, white: hind part of the 

 neck, and upper part of the body, pale brown, mottled with 

 dufky white : fcapulars, wing coverts, quills, and tail, plain 

 dufky brown j the laft fix inches in length, and the feathers 

 darkeft in the middle : legs four inches long: the toes five, of a 

 grey ifh yellow ; webs dufky: the fpur behind ftout and pointed, 

 but fhort : claws dufky. 



Thefe were met with by our voyagers at Staaten Land, Terra' 

 del Fuego, and TJle of Defolation, and other places in the high 

 fouthern latitudes. Are often feen failing, with the wings ex- 

 panded, clofe to the furface of the water, but without appearing 

 to move them. Like others of this genus, are faid to be moil: 

 a£tive, and in the greateft numbers, in ftorms, or when they are 

 approaching ; hence their appearance is an unwelcome fight to 

 the mariner. Like the Allatrojs alfo vifits the nortbernhzmi- 



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