PETREL. 196 



These were met with in Queen Charlotte's Sound, and other parts 

 adjacent to New Zealand, in vast flocks ; fluttering on the surface of 

 the water, or sitting upon it, and dive well ; arising often at con- 

 siderable distances, with amazing agility. They croak like frogs. 

 and sometimes make a noise like the cackling of a Hen ; known by 

 the name of Tee-tee. This alone, according to M. Temminck, forms 

 a Genus as above mentioned ; probably discriminated from the others 

 in having the skin of the under mandible dilatable, as in the Pelican 

 Tribe, and seen in no other species : independent of the want of a 

 spur on the leg. 



** SPURIOUS— WITH THE NOSTRILS DISTINCT. 



27— BROAD-BILLED PEDREL. 



Proeellaria Forsteri, Ind. Om. ii. 827. 



Proeellaria vittata, Gm. Lin.i. 5G0. 



Pachyptila, Prion, Tern. Man. Ed. 2d. Anal. p. cix. 



Le Petrel bleu, Bvf. ix. 316. 



Vittated Petrel, Forst. Voy. i. 153. Id. Obs. p. 199. 



Blue Petrel, Cook's Voy. i. p. 29. 



Broad-billed Petrel, Gen. Syn. vi. 414. 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill blue grey, one inch and a quarter 

 long, and almost an inch broad at the base, both mandibles bending 

 at the point, the edges finely serrated ; each nostril ending in a 

 distinct, very short, tube; tongue very large, fleshy, and fills up the 

 whole of the bill, conforming to the shape of it ; plumage bluish 

 ash on the upper parts, and some of the feathers are brown in the 

 middle; sides of the head and under parts of the body white; 

 beneath the eye a dusky black streak ; quills and ends of the six 

 middle tail feathers dusky, almost black : when the wings are ex- 

 panded, a dark, oblique band appears from the bend of the wing 



on each side, passing to the lower part of the back ; legs black. 



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