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JSSTRELATA FULIGINOSA (Kuhl) CoueS. 



Procellaria fuliginosa, Kuhl, Mon. Proc. Beit. Zool. 1820, p. 142, No. 12, pi. x. 

 fig. 6. (Banks, tab. 19, fide Kubl ; Forst. tab. 93, B. fide Gould.) But 

 not Proc. fuliginosa, Kah], 1. c. species 27, page 148, (Banks tab. 23,) 

 which is a Ncctris. Also not fuliffinosa Gm. Lath, which is probably a 

 Thalassidromine species. Also not Puffinus fuliginosus Strick. Forster, 

 Descr. Anim. Ed. Licht. 18-iU, p. 23, sp. 18. Not the Neclr is fuliffinosa of 

 Forster. Schlegel, Mon. Proc. Mus. Pays-Bas. 1863, p. 8. 

 Procellaria atlantica, Gould, Ann. Mag. N. H. 1844, xiii. p. 362. Id. Introd. B. 



Aust. p. 116, sp. 590, and of authors. 

 Pterodroma atlantica, Bonaparte, C. A. 1856, ii. p. 191. 

 Habitat. Atlantic Ocean, particularly its southern portions. 

 Descr* Bill black. Feet dark colored. Entire plumage including the 

 under wing coverts, fuliginous, becoming almost black on the wings and 

 tail. Bill 1-35. Tarsus 1-60 ; middle toe and claw 2-20 ; outer do. about the 

 same, inner do. 2 20. Wing 10-75 to 11-50; possibly to 1200. Tail 4-50 to 

 5-00. Total length 15 to 16 inches. 



Fine examples of this well known species are in the Philadelphia Academy, 

 some of them typical specimens received from Mr. Gould, and labelled by him 

 " atlantica." 



This species is certainly the fuliffinosa of KuhPs monograph (No. 12, pi. x. 

 fig. 6.) Indeed it is seldom that the descriptions and measurements of the 

 earlier writers are found so entirely pertinent and readily identifiable as in 

 the present instance. The figure of the bill agrees exactly. This identifica- 

 tion is made by both Bonaparte and Schlegel. Although the name fuliffinosa 

 has been applied by several other authors to different species, none of them 

 fall in this genus or indeed among the JEstrelalcse. (Examine my synonyma, 

 mipra.) There would seem to be therefore no good reason why the 

 name should not stand for this species, taking precedence over atlantica of 

 Gould. To Dr. Schlegel is due, I believe, the credit of restoring Dr. Kuhl's 

 name. 



It is quite at variance with the usual great accuracy of Mr. Gould's identifi- 

 cations, that he should have saidf that this species " i3 the grisea of Kuhl " 

 (No. 15, fig. 9.) I have endeavored to show, ante&, what I think the grisea of 

 Kuhl really is; but whether my identification which is the same as that 

 made by Dr. Schlegel be correct or not, Kuhl's grisea is certainly widely 

 different from the present species. 



In ray Review of the Puffinece, page 124 of these Proceedings for 1864, I 

 maintain the opinion that fuliginosa, Forster, sp. 18, p. 23, of Liehenstein's 

 edition, is a species of Ncctris; which view 1 am now satisfied is erroneous. 

 Procellaria fuliginosa Forster is the present species, as maintained by Prof. 

 Lichtenstein and Prince Bonaparte. Impressed with Kuhl's remark that his 

 fuliginosa is ''nmnino diversa a Nectri fuliginosa Forst.," I did not discriminate 

 between this latter name and the Procellaria fuliginosa Forst. p. 23 of Lichen- 

 stein's edition ; whence my mistake. 



I know nothing of the Nectris fuliginosa of Forster, nor do I attempt to iden- 

 tify Proc. fuliginosa, sp. 27, ( ; < Banks tab. 23 ") of Dr. Kuhl's monograph. The 

 latter has recently been identified by Mr. Gray with Proc. pacijica of Latham, 

 which is some large species of Puffinus (Cat. Birds Pacif. Isl. p. 55.) 



In the "Ibis" for 1862, page 245, Mr. G. R. Gray institutes a Procellaria 

 J'urkinsoni ; which is said to be the bird of Bank's icon. ined. No. 19, and (in 

 part) the Puffinus icquinoctialis of Gray's list of Anseres of the British Museum, 

 page 100 , and is compared with xquinoct ialis as follows : " being smaller in all 

 its proportions; the bill is nearly one-third less than that of sequin octialis ; the 



*From specs, in Mus. Acad., Phila. 

 f Ann. Mag. N. II. 1844, xiii. p. 362. 



1866.] 



