41 6 



R 



L. 



PLAC2 t 



•■expanded, a dark band, as in the broad-billed fpecies : the 

 wings, when clofed, are fomewhat longer than the tail : the legs 

 are blue : the webs pale. 



Thefe fly in flocks, and inhabit the Southern Ocean, from 47 

 to 58 degrees of latitude. Capt. Cook fuppofes thefe to be the 

 female to the broad- billed ; but the bill has no degree of breadth to 

 juftify it j and the colours of the plumage, on comparing them 

 together, immediately detect the difference. 



22. 



PACIFIC P. 



DESCRIPTION* 



Place. 



Br. Muf. 



T ENGTH twenty-two inches: breadth forty inches. The 

 bill is two inches in length, of a lead-colour, and much 

 hooked at the tip : in the place of a tube the noftrils only ap- 

 pear i they are fltuated obliquely, of an oval fhape, a little ele- 

 vated, and placed an inch and a quarter from the bafe : the up- 

 per parts of the plumage are black, the under dufky : legs pale 

 on the infteps, where they are marked with fome black fpots, 

 and a few others on the toes and webs. 



Inhabits Euopoa, and other iflands of the Pacific Ocean. Said to 

 fly in innumerable flocks. Difappear at once, dipping under 

 water all together, and then rife as fuddenly. 



23- 



DUSKY P. 

 Description. 



Br. Muf. 



T ENGTH thirteen inches. Bill an inch and a half ; the fides 



of it horn-colour, otherwife black; in the ufual place of the 



tube are only two fmall holes, ferving for noftrils ; the point of 



the bill hooked : the upper parts of the body are dufky black : 



the 



