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eveiUMg aelvaiicoa it became more lively, although uot partieu- 
‘ } ac ive , and never showed any inclination to rise on the 
Aving or escape. The crepuscular habits of the birds of this 
gonus wdl account for the circumstances under which, not only 
this, but other individuals have been taken; viz., asleep on the 
U .1 er or in boats. Aftc-r it died, the bird was set up by Foster 
' isbecli, for the Lynn Museum ; and he was very successful 
m giving It tlie attitude Avhich it geiiei-ally assumed, and which 
think, may be considered tliat natural to this geuus when on 
^ a . At the time I quite believed my bird wa.s an immature 
J. major; under which impression I remained till quite recently 
when at the suggestion of Mr. J. 11 . Gurney, Jun., I borrowed U 
rom tlie Lynn Museum, and have now no doubt that it should 
be referred to the rarer species, P. rp-isens : in this view both 
1 n ^'""ley coincide. 'J'he specimen on the 
table difiers somewhat in colour from other individuals of the .same 
species which I have seen ; being r.ither clove-brown than sooty in 
colour. I his, I would suggest, may be due to its juvenility; but 
m the abseime of a series of skins of either this or the nearlV-allied 
. major, in various stages of plumage, of course this is a mere 
suggestion. I am not aware that the plumage of the younr^ of 
. major, lor which our bird was mistaken, has evei- been 
I escribed. In the re-naming of this bird, one species has to be 
used from the Norfolk list ; but another, and rarer one, added, 
le range of P. .jriseus is very e.xtensive : it is found, according 
0 1 rcsser, 111 the Atlantic from Greenland to the extreme Soutlq 
the Pacific from California down at least to Chili, and off the 
coast of Xew Zealand. 
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