PETREL. 413 



CJLERNE mentions a fpecies differing from the above: it v l8, 



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is of the fame fize, but differs in colour. The bill is black : 

 back the fame, waved with blueifh purple : the head, crop, and 

 fides of the body, nearly blue, reflecting black and violet in dif- 

 ferent lights : the hind part of the neck of a changeable green 

 and purple : the upper partsof the wings and rump fpotted with 

 white : the reft of the body black : the legs fhort and black. 



This is found in the fea about Italy; and, as the others, feems Place* 



to live on the furface of the water, no one having ever yet feen it 

 on land ; and its prefence faid to forebode a ftorm, be the weather 

 ever fo ferene : feen always in flocks *.. 



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IZE of the Little Auk, and of a flout make, not unlike that 19* 



bird: length eight inches and a quarter. The bill nearly an 

 inch long, flout and blacky the middle of the under mandible CRI 



white on the fides : irides duflcy blue : the plumage on the upper 

 parts is black brown : beneath white, except the chin, which is 

 black j the fkin of that part, and of the throat, is loofe, ferving 

 as a pouch, as in the Frigate Pelican: the wings are rather fhorter 

 than the tail : the legs of a blueifli green : webs black : the fpur 

 at the back part wanting. 



Thefe are met with in Queen Charlotte's Sound, and other parts Placr- 



in the neighbourhood of New Zealand. Were feen in vaft flocks., 

 fluttering on the furface of the water, or fitting on It j and dive 



f Sakrm Orn. p. 383, 



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