NEW SOUTH WALES.. i6i 
Order IX. Web-footed, chap. 
XV. 
Genus XC. 
Norfolk Island Petrel. 
Length lixteen inches, bill one inch and an half 
long, black, and very hooked at the tip : the head as far as 
the eyes, the chin and throat, waved, brovi^n and diifky ' 
white : the reft of the body on the upper parts of a 
footy brown, the under of a deep afli colour ; the inner 
part of the quills, efpecially next the bafe, very pale? 
nearly white, and the wings, when clofed, exceed the 
tail by about an inch : the tail is much rovinded in iliape, 
and conlifts of twelve feathers, of the fame colour as the 
upper parts of the body : the legs are pale yellow, the , 
outer toe black the whole length, the middle one half 
way from the tip, the webs alfo correfpond, the outer 
one being black, except juft at the bafe ; and the inner 
one black for about one third from the end : the claws 
black ; the fpur, which ferves in place of a back toe, is 
alfo black. 
This inhabits Norfolk iJlancU and burrows in the fand 
like a rabbit, lying hid in the holes throughout the day, 
and coming out of evenings in queft of food. This bird ap- 
pears to differ fo very little from the dark grey Petrel of 
Cook\ Voyage, vol. i. p. 258. that it is not improbable it 
may prove to be the fame fpecies. This is defcribed in the 
General Synopfis of Birds, vol. vi. p. 399. under the 
name of Grey Petrel as alfo another fpecies, in p. 400. 
by the name of Whtte-hreajlecl Petrel, differing only in . 
Che breaft from our fpecimen. 
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