1 78 PETREL. 



9— PINTADO PETREL. 



Procellaria Capensis, Jnd. Om. ii. S22. Lin. i. 213. Am. Ac. iv. p. 240 Gm. Lin.'u 



565. Osb. It. p. 76. Id. Voy. 109. Borowsk. iii. p. 37. 

 Petrella Pintada, Pintado Bird, Bartr. Trav. 293. 

 Procellaria nsevia, Bris. vi. 146. 7d.8vo.ii. 400. Klein, 14S. 14. 

 Le Petrel tachete, ou le Damier, Buf. ix. 304. pi. 21. PI. enl. 964. Pernet. Voy. ii. 



p. 72. For st. Voy. i. 489. 

 Pardela, Ulloa's Voy. 304. 



White and Black Spotted Petrel, Edw. pi. 90. Hawlcesiv. Voy. i. 556. 

 Pintado Petrel, Gen. Syn. vi. 401. Damp. Voy. iii. pi. p. 96. f. 1. 



LENGTH fourteen inches. Bill one inch and a half long, and 

 black ; the head, hind part of the neck, quills, and tail, black ; sides 

 of the head mottled black and white; all the under parts whitish, 

 irregularly marked with spots of black ; legs black. Is apt to vary 

 much in plumage. 



The Pintado Petrel is, we believe, confined to the Southern 

 Hemisphere, being rarely seen much to the north of 30 deg. ; most 

 frequent about the Cape of Good Hope,* and adjacent parts, and called 

 by our sailors the Cape Pigeon. They fly many together; seldom 

 high, but almost sweeping the surface of the \vater,f and sometimes 

 appear in such immense numbers, that 700 have been taken in one 

 night; J are often caught with a tarred string, or a piece of lard, at 

 the end of a fishing rod.§ Dam pier observes, that he met with them 

 in greatest plenty from about 200 leagues from the coast of New- 

 Holland. Later voyagers trace them to New Zealand, |[ Falkland 

 Isles, and many other parts; and probably all round the South Pole. 

 One of their breeding places is Kerguelen's Land. The egg of the 

 size of a Pullet's, and laid in December.^ When caught they make 

 a noise, not unlike a Parrot, at the same time spurting out oil from 



* Dampier and others. Said by sailors to be a sure presage of a near approach to that 

 promontory. f Dampier. J At Maso Fuero — Haiokes. Voy. i. 550. 



§ Oib. Voy. i. 109. || Forst. Voy. i. 489. % Cook's last Voy. i. 86. 



