An Australian Bird Book: A Pocket Book for Field UseLeach, John Albert
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An Australian Bird Book: A Pocket Book for Field Use
Leach, John Albert
Birds -- Australia
Sooty-brown; under paler; bill blackish-brown; legs, feet
light-grey, black down outer side. Food as 41.
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3
=43 Brown Petrel= (Great-Gray), Black-tailed Shearwater (U.S.),
Night Hawk (e), Bully, Kuia, _Procellaria (Priofinus) cinereus_,
S.O., California (once).
r. _ocean_ 19.5
Crown, upper dark brownish-gray; under white; under base tail
ashy-brown; tail black; feet grayish-flesh color; outer toe
brownish-black; dives; f., sim.
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1
=44 Silver-gray Petrel= (Fulmar), Slender-billed Fulmar (U.S.),
_Priocella glacialoides_, Bass St., A., T., N.Z., S. Oceans,
Pacific to Japan, Alaska.
c. _ocean_ 18
Pearly-gray; tip-wing black; face, under silky-white; f., sim.
Dead animals, oil, cuttlefish.
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3
=45 Black Petrel= (Fulmar), Taonui, _Procellaria (Majaqueus)
parkinsoni_, A. and N.Z. Seas.
r. _ocean_ 18
Sooty black; f., sim. Food see 41.
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=46 Great-winged Petrel= (Long-winged, Gray-faced), _Æstrelata
macroptera_, A., N.Z., S. Oceans.
v.r. _ocean_ 15
Dark brown; about bill, throat gray; wing-quills, tail black;
bill, feet black; f., sim. Food see 41.
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=47 Brown-headed Petrel=, Solander Fulmar, _Æ. solandri_, 1 specimen
only, Gould, Bass St.
u. _ocean_ 16
Head, wings, tail dark-brown; back slaty-gray, marked dark-brown;
bill, legs black.
=48 White-winged Petrel=, _Æ. leucoptera_, A., N.Z. to C. Horn,
Fiji.
r. _ocean_ 13
Upper dark slaty-gray; forehead, face, under, under wing white;
wings blackish-brown; eyes, bill black; legs, half toes and webs
fleshy-white; tip toes and webs black; f., sim.
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1
=49 Giant Petrel= (Fulmar), Mother Carey's Goose, Nelly, Glutton,
Stinkpot, Vulture of the Seas, _Macronectes gigantea_, S. Oceans
up to 30° S. Lat. Oregon (acc).
c. _ocean_ 33
Dark chocolate-brown; bill horn-color; has also a white phase;
f., sim. Scavenger, omnivorous.
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1
=50 Cape-Petrel= (Pintado, Black and White, Spotted, Pied),
Cape-Pigeon (-Fulmar), _Daption capensis_, A., N.Z., S. Oceans
to Brazil, Ceylon, Peru, acc. to California, Maine, England.
Large flocks c. _ocean_ 16.5
Head, hind-neck, upper-back, edge of wing, quills, chin sooty-brown;
inner-wing, back white, broadly spotted sooty-brown; under white;
bill, feet blackish-brown; f., sim. Food as 41.
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=51 Blue Petrel=, _Prion (Halobaena) coerulea_, S. Oceans, A., T.,
N.Z. to Icepack, Fiji.
c. _ocean_ 11
Forehead, cheeks, throat, centre-chest, under white; upper
grayish-blue; outer wing-quills black; tail square, tipped white;
bill blackish-brown; f., sim. Cuttlefish, shellfish.
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