“The cape petrel, or pintado bird; the small blue one, which is always seen at sea, and the small black one, or Mother Carey’s chicken, are not here in great numbers.  But we found a nest of the first with an egg in it, about the size of a pullet’s; and the second, though scarce, was met with in some holes like rabbit-burrows.”

“Another sort, which is the largest of all the petrels, and called by the seamen Mother Carey’s goose, is in greater numbers, and so tame, that at first we could kill them with a stick upon the beach.  They are not inferior in size to an albatross, and are carnivorous, feeding on the dead carcasses of seals or birds that were thrown into the sea.  Their colour is a sooty brown, with a greenish bill and feet; and, doubtless, they are the same that the Spaniards call quebrantahuessos, whose head is figured in Pernetty’s Voyage to Falkland Islands."[125]

[Footnote 125:  Fig. 3, plate viii.]

“Of the albatrosses, none were found on shore except the grey one, which is commonly met with at sea in the higher southern latitudes.  Once I saw one of these sitting in the cliff of a rock, but they were frequently flying about the harbour; and the common large sort, as well as the smaller with a black face, were seen farther out.”

“Penguins form, by far, the greatest number of birds here, and are of three sorts; the first, or largest, I have seen formerly at the island of Georgia.[126] It is also mentioned by Bougainville;[127] but it does not seem to be so solitary as he represents it, for we found considerable numbers flocking together.  The head is black, the upper part of the body a leaden grey, and the under part white, with black feet.  It has two broad stripes of fine yellow, that begin on the sides of the head, and, descending by each side of the neck, meet above its breast.  The bill is partly reddish, and longer than in the other sorts.”

[Footnote 126:  Pennant’s Patagonian penguin.  See his Genera of Birds, tab. 14, p. 66.]

[Footnote 127:  Voyage autour du Monde, p. 69.]

“The second sort of penguins scarcely exceeds half the size of the former.  The upper part of the body is a blackish grey, with a white spot on the upper part of the head, growing broader at each side.  The bill and feet are yellowish.  A very accurate figure and description, both of this and of the preceding, is given by Mr Sonnerat."[128]

[Footnote 128:  Voyage a la Nouvelle Guinee, p. 181, 182.  Tab. 113, 115.]

“The third sort of penguin met with here, had never been seen by any of us before.  Its length is twenty-four inches, and its breadth twenty.  The upper part of the body and throat are black, the rest white, except the upper part of the head, which has a fine yellow arch, looking backward, and ending on each side in long soft feathers, which it can erect as two crests.”