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=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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=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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=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.

=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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=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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=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.

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