FLESH-FOOTED PETREL. 
description of his varieties, proves that he could distinguish these dark Petrels, 
though they have since been confused by eminent ornithologists : — 
carbonaria Nectris tota nigricans, rostro albido apice nigricante, pedibus totis albidis. 
Habitat in Oceano Austr. iam alluente prope Insulam trium Regum : Lat. austr. 
Long occ. CLXXXVII (Dec. 24, 1769). 
Tota avis nigricans ; media inter Nectres & Procellarias. 
Rostrum albidum, apice nigrum. 
Mandibula superior basi e tubis narium ddatatis incrassata, convexa ; Lacuna inter nares 
excavata ; dein angustata, convexo-cultrata, latere sulco exarata, apice adunea. 
Nares tubulosi. 
Tuhi supra basin rostri dilatati, vix tertiam partem rostri adtingentes. 
Apertura' ovata', oblique truncata'. 
Mandibula inferior recta, apice adunea, utrinque exarata sulco angusto antice cutaceo. 
Oculi nigri. 
Iride brunneo-nigra. 
Pedes toti sordide albidi, remotiores quam in congeneribus et 
Tibia' minus compressa'. 
Ungues lanceolati, incurvi, sordide albidi. 
Longitude ab apice rostri ad extrem. cauda' 18 | 
inter apices alarum exp. 3 ped. 7 ) 
Vakietas. 
In Oceano australi, Lat. austr. XXXVIII 52, Long. occ. CLXXV : 30 capta, vel forte 
distincta species, quod adparet conferentibus Hu jus. 
Rostrum multo angustius, longius, totum nigricanti-plumbeum. 
Mandibula superior dorso planiuscula, subsulcata. 
Tubuli narium paralleli, vicini, lacuna obsoleta superne distinct!. 
Apertura' approximata', oblonga'. 
Lingua brevis. 
Oculi nigri. 
Pedes albicantes, extus nigricantes. 
Cauda pedibus paulo brevior. 
Avis supra fuliginosus. 
Collum tantummodo subtus et quidem anguste album. 
Eadem capta Maji 18. 1770 in Oceano Australi Novam HoUandiam alluente. Lat. austr. 
XXV : 33 Longit. occ. cujus cauda rotunda pedibus paulo longior erat. 
Gray, in the Genera of Birds, Vol. III., p. 648, 1844, places N. carbonaria 
Sol. MS., as a synonym of Pufjinus sphenurus Gould. The genus Nectris was 
introduced by Kuhl, and credited to Forster, but it was undoubtedly first proposed 
and carefully diagnosed by Solander for the southern slender-billed species of 
Puffinus, and it is interesting to know that he recognised that P. carneipes was 
an aberrant form. When we have series of young birds it will be a most delightful 
study to account for this southern fuliginous form, recalling the black and white 
North Atlantic forms grouped about P. kuhli. 
Nothing whatever has been recorded regarding the habits of this bird. 
The male bird figured and described was collected by Mr. J. T. Tunney, on 
Sandy Hook Island, south of West Australia, on November 16th, 1904. 
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