198 PETREL. 



the legs placed quite in the vent, black, but the inside pale the 

 whole length, and the two inner toes yellowish ; the webs orange ; 

 claws black. 



Inhabits Christmas Island. One of these, two inches shorter, in 

 the Leverian Museum, was said to have come from King George's 

 Sound, on the American Coast. M. Temminck assures us, that this 

 species has been met with in the Mediterranean, though very rarely; 

 it inhabits also the Archipelago throughout ; and very common on 

 the Coasts of Africa, and the Cape of Good Hope ; but never seen 

 in the Northern Seas. 



