SOOTY PINTADO ? 



(Daption? fuliginosum.) 



Da ? J'ultginosO'^uscum, capite collo remigibus rectricihusque ni-^ 

 grisj Cauda emarginata. 



Sooty-brown Pintado ? with the head, neck, quills, and tail-fea- 

 thers black, the tail emarginated. 



Procellaria fuliginosa. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 562. Lath, Ind, 

 Orn. 2. 825. 



Sooty Petrel. Lath. Gen, Si/n. 6 . 409. Lath, Gen. Hist, x. 1 87. 



This bird is eleven inches in length : its beak is 

 black : irides pale cinereous : the head and neck are 

 deep sooty-black ; and the rest of the body brown- 

 black, with the under parts palest : the rump is brown : 

 the ridge of the wing is mixed with cinereous : the 

 quills and tail are deep black ; the latter is slightly 

 forked, and scarcely so long as the wings when closed : 

 the legs are slender, an inch long, and black. In- 

 habits the neighbourhood of Otaheite. 



