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comes pretty forward on the upper mandible, winch is much curved 

 at the end ; the whole plumage pure white, the shafts of the feathers 

 black ; the wings exceed the tail in length ; legs dark sea-green, 

 or blue, with pale webs; claws long, and crooked. 



Inhabits the colder parts of the southern regions, off the Island 

 of Georgia, Terra del Fuego, and other parts ; but no where in such 

 plenty as in the neighbourhood of ice, or within a few leagues of it, 

 and proved to be the forerunner of falling in with the same : on the 

 icy masses also, these birds are often in considerable flocks. 



18.— BROWN-BANDED PETREL. 



Procellaria desolata, Tnd. Orn. ii. 825. Gm. Lin. i. 562. 

 Brown-banded Petrel, Gen. Syn. vi. 409. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill one inch, black, tip yellowish ; 

 plumage on the upper parts of the body greenish ash-colour, deepest 

 on the crown; sides of the head, including the eyes, and all the 

 under parts of the body, white; ridge of the wing almost black; 

 quills and tail dusky; the last rounded at the end, and tipped with 

 dark brown ; when the wing is extended, there appears a dark band 

 from tip to tip, quite across the body ; legs brown, webs yellow, 

 claws black. 



Inhabits the Isle of Desolation. — Sir Joseph Banks. 



18.— SOOTY PETREL. 



Procellaria fuliginosa, Tnd. Om. ii. 825. Gm. Lin. i. 562. 

 Sooty Petrel, Gen. Syn. vi. 409. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill black, one inch long, and hooked 

 at the tip; irides pale ash-colour; head and neck sooty black; body 

 above the same, but inclining to brown, not unlike the colour of 

 the Swift ; beneath paler ; rump brown ; the ridge of the wing 

 mixed with ash ; the tail somewhat forked at the end, but each 



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