NMON TURTUR. 



DOVE-LIKE 1'ltloN. Genus: Prion. 



TMIIIS \.ui. w gets it- name from it^ soft and delicate colouring and its slender, graceful form. It 

 1 looks M though H were too fragile to range over the ocean in time of storm, yet it is seen far from 

 mm ihore among it- Bturdier brethren in all weathers. Its flight in calm weather has a most graceful 

 motion like thai of a butterfly; it rarely settles on the water, usually taking up its food without resting 

 on the lurfaoi h ifl tnel with sometimes in great Hocks, but is more often seen in fewer numbers. 



This variety lias also an abundant coat of lung and warm feathers. This gives it the appearance 

 of i bird of considerable Bize, ye\ its body weighs only on an average about five ounces. 



Upper surfaces, delicate grey; wing and tail-feathers, much darker; a spot before and a semi- 

 circular streak behind the eye, very dark brown; over and round these and all the under surfaces, white, 

 tinged with grey "ii the flanks: bill, light-blue; nostrils and streak on the upper mandible, black; irides, 

 brown; feet light blue-grey. 



Habitats: Tasmanian Coast and the islands and coasts of southern and south-western Australia. 



