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The Voyage Of Governor Phillip To Botany Bay

CHAPTER XV
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Species I.Variety B.
The plate of this bird is inserted at pag.77.

Mr.Latham's description is as follows.
"Length nineteen or twenty inches: bill three inches, stout and of a pale yellow: nostrils pervious: the crown of the head black; the feathers longish, and forming a kind of pensile crest at the nape; the rest of the head, neck, and under parts of the body, white: back and wings pale cinereous grey: quills grey, with the ends dusky; the inner webs, half way from the base, white: tail grey, forked; the end half of the other feathers white; the last is exceeded by the first an inch: legs black.
Supposed to inhabit China; seen also, or very similar, from the Friendly Isles; also found at Hapaee, one of the Sandwich Islands." Syn.Vol.vi.p.

351.
NORFOLK ISLAND PETREL.

Order IX.

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