NEW ZEALAND GIANT PETEEL. 
(the bill).” The dash stands for Quebrantahuessos, and apparently in Pernety’s 
original edition, which I have not seen, the bird is called Quebrantahuessos 
Mouton. In the first English translation, published in 1771 (not 1777 as 
given in the Monograph), there is a figure of the head of Quebranta Huessos 
or Osprey on Plate XV., with references to “ p. 160, 214.” I cannot see any 
mention of this bird on p. 160, but on p. 177 I note: “We saw . . . some 
large birds called Quebranta-huessos.” On p. 214 is written: “I likewise 
brought to France and deposited in the Cabinet of Natural History, in 
the Abbey of St. Germain des Pres at Paris, the head and feet of a large 
water fowl of the carnivorous kind, which I have mentioned under the 
name of Quebranta-huessos. I have given its figure on account of the 
singularity of its biU.” ' 
The figure, though roughly drawn, is unmistakeable. In Forster’s trans- 
lation of Bougainville’s Voyage, pp. 62 and 63, 1772, commenting upon the 
following passage in the text, “ Their enemy is a bird of prey, with webbed 
feet, measuring near seven feet from tip to tip, and having a long and strong 
bill, distinguished by two tubes of the same substance as the bill itself, which are 
hollow throughout. This is the bird which the Spaniards call Quebrantahuessos 
there is a footnote by Forster, “ The Quebrantahuessos is a bird belonging to the 
genus called by Dr. Linnaeus, Procellaria, or Petrel; some of the sailors call 
it Albatross, but then we must take care not to confound the common albatross 
represented by Mr. Edwards, tab. 88, which is not this Quebrantahuessos, but 
I believe the bird described by our author to be not yet well known by our 
ornithologists ; and the imperfect account of Bougainville and Dom Pernetty 
are far from being satisfactory to natural historians. Our late great circum- 
navigators and philosophers will probably oblige the literary world with a 
drawing and account of this bird.” 
This bird had been met with on Captain Cook’s first voyage, and 
two drawings were made by Parkinson and two descriptions prepared by 
Solander which are here reproduced : — 
gigantea Procellaria tota fuliginosa, rostro sordide e flavicanti-virescente ; tubo narium atra 
(a) pedium producto 
Fig. Piet. 
Habitat in Oceano antarctieo a Terra del Fuego australi. Lat. austr. gr. LVIII (Febr. 
2 , 1769 ) 
Mother Carey’s Goose ' 
Avis in onmibus ad amussim usque similis varietati cinerea', nisi colore corporis, qui in 
hae nigricans seu fuliginosus est, dum in dla cinereus 
Caput fusco-ferrugineum, vertice pallidius, fronte nigricans 
Collum ferrugineo-fuscum 
Pectus fuscum maculis albidis obsoletis adspersum 
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