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BLACK-TOED P. 

 Description. 



Place. 



Lev. Muf. 



ENGTH thirteen inches. Bill an inch and a half long, 

 black : all round the bafe of the bill, the chin, and throat, 

 pale filvery grey, marked with minute dulky fpecks : top of the 

 head, and all the upper parts of the plumage, wings, and tail, 

 dufky black, inclining to hoary on the back : tail rounded at the 

 end : wings and tail even : the under parts of the body hoary 

 afh-colour : legs very pale : the webs for one third the fame ; 

 the reft to the end black : joints of the toes black. 

 Said to inhabit North America. 



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 SNOWY P. 



Description. 



Place and 



Manners. 



Le Petrel blanc, ou Petrel de neige, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 314. 

 Snowy Petrel, For/I. Voy. \. p. 96. — Cook's Voy. i. p. 33. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



IZE of the Pintado Petrel: length one foot. The bill is an 

 inch and a quarter long, the colour black, inclining to blue 

 at the bafe ; the tube which contains the noftrils comes pretty 

 forward on the upper mandible, which is much curved at the 

 end : the whole plumage of a pure white, the fhafts of the fea- 

 thers black : the wings exceed the tail in length : legs of a dark 

 fea-green, or blue, with pale webs : claws long, and crooked. 



This is found in the colder parts of the Jouthern regions, off 

 the ifland of Georgia *, 'Terra del Fuego, and other parts; but no 

 where in fuch plenty as in the neighbourhood of ice, or within a 

 few leagues of it, and proved to be the forerunner of falling in 

 with the fame; and on the icy maffes themfelves thefe birds 

 were often in considerable flocks. 



* For/. Ob/ p. jz.—Vqy, i. p, 98. — Cook's Voy. i. p. 23. 



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