CAPE PINTADO* 



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R^gne Animal, to give it as the type of a new genus, 

 and to attach the numerous southern Petrels described 

 by Latham thereto, being unable to obtain any cor- 

 rect information respecting them, from the deplorable 

 state of ornithological collections, or rather the want 

 of my public one of reference in this country. 



€APE PINTADO. 



(Daption Ca.penses.) 



Da. albo fmcoque varinm. 



Pintado varied with brown and white. 



Procellaria Capensis. Linn. Si/st, Nat, L 213. Gmel. S^d- 



Nat, 1. 565. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 822. 

 Procellaria naevia. Bi'iss, Orn. 6. 146« 



Le Petrel tachete, ou le Damier. Buff, Hist, Nat. Ois. 9. 304, 

 , pi 21. Buff. PL Enl, 964. Cuv, Reg, Anim. 1. 515. 

 White and black spotted Petrel. Edvo, Glean, pi. 90. 

 Pintado Petrel. Lath. Gen, Syn. 6. 401. Lath, Gen. Hist, x, 

 178. 



This, which forms the type of the genus, is four- 

 teen inches in length : the beak is black, and an inch 

 and a half long : the head, hind part of the neck, 

 the quills, and the tail, are black : the sides of the 

 head are varied with black and white : the under 

 parts of the plumage are whitish, irregularly spotted 

 with black : the legs are black. The disposition of 

 the colours of the plumage varies in some specimens: 

 one is commemorated as having those parts that are 



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