PETREL. 177 



channel; gape wide; tongue short; irides black; top and sides of 

 the head and neck, shoulders and small scapulars, brown ; the 

 greater scapulars, back, rump, tail, greater wing coverts, and quills 

 black, glossed with purple; the rest of the coverts light brown, with 

 yellowish margins ; throat and neck before whitish ; sides of the 

 neck brown ; on the top of the neck a deep brown band, taking rise 

 from the setting on of one wing to the other ; greater part of the 

 breast, stomach, and nearly the whole of the belly, white ; the rest 

 of the under parts quite black; the nape almost bare of feathers; 

 the tail is much forked, and consists of twelve feathers, the outer one 

 six inches longer than the two middle ; toes joined by a membrane, 

 but not quite to the end of them, being only so as to leave great 

 hollows between the toes, which are black. 



A great number of these birds were seen flying generally at a 

 middling height, and sometimes even out of sight, near the Isle of 

 Ascension, appearing in pairs. — This bird cannot be a Kingsfisher : 

 nor is it more likely to be a Pratincole, as the annotator on Azara 

 seems to think. In our opinion, it probably belongs to the Petrel 

 Genus. 



8. -ANTARCTIC PETREL. 



Procellaria antarctica, Ind. Orn. ii. 822. Gm. Lin. i. 565. 



Le Petrel antarctique, ou Damier brun, Bvf. ix. 311. 



Brown and White Petrel, Boug. Voy. i. p. 42 ? 



Antarctic Petrel, Gen. Syn. vi. 400. Forst. Voy. i. 108. Cook's Voy. i. 257. 



LENGTH sixteen inches. Bill one inch and a half, brown, 

 with a black tip; irides brownish hazel; plumage in general above 

 deep brown, beneath bluish white; the second quills are white, with 

 dark brown tips; the greater dark brown, with the inner webs of 

 some next the body white; rump and tail white; tips of all the tail 

 feathers black for nearly an inch ; legs dusky lead-colour. 



This is found every where within the Antarctic Circle; in small 

 flights, lat. 61. 36. S. 



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