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GLACIAL PINTADO. 



(Daption gelidum.) 



Da. cinereo-ccerulescente, dorso nigricante, guld jugulo pectoreque 



albis, rostra flavOf pedibus ccerulcis. 

 Ashy-blue Pintado^ with the back dusky, the throat, jugulum, 



and breast white, the beak yellow, the tips blue. 

 Procellaria gelida. Gmel. Sj/st. Nat. 1. 564. Lath. Ind, Orn, 



2. 822. 



Glacial Petrel. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 399. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 

 174. 



Inhabits the most southern regions, chiefly in the 

 Antarctic Circle itself: it is in length nineteen inches : 

 its beak is yellow, with its nasal tube, the top of the 

 under mandible, the tip of the lower, and the edges of 

 both, black : the top of the head, including the cheeks, 

 and the hind part of the neck to the shoulders, are pale 

 bluish-ash colour : the rest of the upper parts of the 

 plumage is dusky-black : the chin, fore part of the 

 neck and breast, are white : the rest of the under 

 parts pale cinereous, or ash colour : the legs and 

 webs are blue j the under parts of the last white : 

 the claws black. 



