414 P E T R E L. 



■well *, arifing often at confiderable diftances, with amazing agi- 

 lity. They croak like frogs, and fometimes make a noife like the 

 cackling of a Hen. Known by the name of Tee-tee. 



* * 



SPURIOUS, WITH THE NOSTRILS DISTINCT. 



20. Le Petrel bieu, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 316. 



EROAD^BILLED Vitiated Petrel, Forji. Voy. 1. p. 153.— Oh/, p. 199. 



Blue Peteril, Cook's Voy. 1. p. 29. 

 Lev. Muf. 



Description. QIZE of a fmall Pigeon: length twelve inches. The bill blue 

 grey, an inch and a quarter in length, and near an inch broad 

 at the bale j both mandibles bent at the points ; the edges finely 

 ferrated ; at each noftril a diftinct very lhort tube : the tongue 

 is very large and flefhy, and fills up the whole of the bill, con- 

 forming to the lhape of it: the colour of the plumage is blueilh 

 am on the upper parts ; and fome of the feathers are brown in 

 the middle : the fides of the head, and under parts of the body, 

 white : beneath the eye a dufky black ftreak : the quills, and the 

 ends of the fix middle tail feathers, dufky, almoft black : when 

 the wings are expanded a dark band appears. from the tip of one 

 wing to the other, croffing the back : the legs are black. 



The female has the fame plumage ■, but the bill, though greatly 



exceeding that of any other Petrel, is fcarcely more than half 



the. breadth of that of the male. 



Place and Thefe were feen all over the Southern hemifphere, from 28 de- 



Manners, g rees U p Warc j s< yi tt with i n T) u fky Bay, and other parts of New 



* Thefe are the Little Diving Petrels. See Forji. Voy. i. p. 189. 503. — Diving 



Pitrels (hew the proximity of land. Id. u p. 483. 



1 Zealand. 



