The Petrels. 
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Islands and the New Hebrides, where it is found in the mountains burrowing into 
the turf for a nesting place. The egg, however, has not yet been described. It 
is a small species, measuring only ten-and-a-half inches in length, with a wing of 
eight inches. It is slaty-grey in colour, both above and below, and the upper 
tail-coverts are of the same tint, but the throat is white as well as the forehead, and 
the cap is dusky-blackish. 
This species is distinguished by its sooty-black colour and its 
wedge-shaped tail. The nasal tubes are separate and directed 
forwards, and are flesh-coloured at the ends. One specimen is 
said to have been procured in Yorkshire. The species is an 
inhabitant of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and it breeds 
in the Desertas Islands. The birds make no nest, but lay their single white egg 
in a hole or under a rock. 
A single specimen of this Albatros was captured near 
Linton in Cambridgeshire, on the 9th of July, 1897. It is an 
inhabitant of the Southern Oceans, but occasionally strays into 
the North Atlantic, and has been observed near the Faeroe 
Islands, where a specimen was obtained in 1894. 
BULWER’S 
PETREL. 
(Bulweria bulwcri.) 
See p. 215. 
THE 
BLACK- BROWED 
ALBATROS. 
(Diomedea 
melanophrys.) 
The Black-browed Albatros. 
