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Species accounts, Liewards #13
R.P. Burton
1866
21
June.
Sooty Storm Petrel
Laycan
No birds have as yet been seen (13 Tuns)
but one skeleton, or rather dried up carcass,
was found by the layman, with distinctly
forked tail, distinguishing it from Bulwer's
Petrel. The season is probably only two
lute for these Storm Petrels to be on the
island.