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the nostrils into the face of the person who holds them. The food is 

 fish, but more frequently the dead carcases of whales, &c. about 

 which they are often seen in vast numbers.* 



A.— Pintado Petrel Var. Gen. Syn. vi. 402. Ind. Orn, ii. 823. (3. 



Size of the former ; and differs in having- the white parts buff- 

 colour; tail white, tipped with black ; and the base of the quills 

 white ; legs brown ; webs black ; with the two inner toes orange in 

 the middle. 



This was met with in the Isle of Desolation. — Sir Joseph Banks. 



10.— FULMAR PETREL. 



Procellaria glacialis, Ind. Orn. ii. 823. Lin. i. 213. Faun. suec. No. 144. Id. Ret:. 



No. 102. Gm. Lin.\. 562. Brun. No. 118. Midler, No. 144. Fn. groenl. No. 



55. Borowsk. iii. 36. Lin. Trans, xii. p. 553. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 518. Id. Ed. 



2d. p. 803. Parry's App. p. ccvi. 

 Procellaria cinerea, Bris. vi. t. 12. f. 2. Id. Svo. ii. 399. Act. Nidr. i. 182. t. 1. 

 Puffinus, si ve Procellaria aequinoctialis, Gerin. v. t. 536. 

 Wagellus Cornubiensium, Mallemuche, Rail, 130. A. 13. 

 Haff'hert, seu Equus marinus, Will. 306. Id. Engl. p. 395. 

 Fulmar, ou Petrel-Puffin gris blanc, Buf. ix. 325. p. 22. pi. 59. 

 Fulmar Petrel, Gen. Syn. vi. 403. pi. 91. Br. Zool. ii. No. 257. Id.fol. 145. pi. M. 



2. Id. Ed. 1812. ii. p. 203. pi. 36. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 461. Flor. Scot. i. No. 



197. Martin's St. Kilda, 30. iv. pi. 82. Martin's Spits, pi. v. f. C. Phipps's 



Voy. p. 186. Bewick, ii. pi. in p. 243. Lewin, vii. pi. 217. Id. xliv. f. 2. — the 



egg. Walcot, ii. pi. 68. Pu/t. Dors. p. 21. Orn. Diet, fy Supp. 



LENGTH nearly eighteen inches; weight twenty-two ounces. 

 Bill two inches long, pale grey, with a yellowish tip ; the back and 

 wing coverts ash-colour; quills dusky, and somewhat longer than 

 the tail; the rest of the plumage white; legs greyish yellow: in 

 some the tail is pale ash, the outer feather only white. 



* Ives mentions, that when caught, and brought on board a ship, they cannot rise for 

 flight from the deck, but will most readily do so out of a tub of water. See Voy. p. 5. 



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