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17. Proc. cinerea, p. 563. A stumbling block, concerning which authors are 

 greatly at variance. Usually employed by European authors as the name of 

 the species I describe as Puffinus Kuhlii Boie ; and applied by American writers 

 to P. major Fab. By Bonaparte identified with his Adamastor typus ( = hsesi- 

 tata Forst. Gould, Reich, nee Kuhl, Temm. = Adamastor cinereus of my paper,) 

 in which opinion I entirely concur. According to Mr. Gray, the genus Prio- 

 finus Homb. et Jacq. is based upon this same bird, and antedates Adamastor of 

 Bonaparte. The proper name of the species in question would then be Prio- 

 finus cinereus. 



18. Proc. gigantea, p. 563, = Ossifraga gigantea Reich. 



19. Proc. brasiliana p. 564. Very dubious. May be the same as the pre- 

 ceding species ; or the Oracalus brasilianus, as identified by Bonaparte. 



4. Proc. sequinoctialis, p. 564, and var. B., = Majaqueus sequinoctialis Reich. 



20. Proc. grisea, p. 564. Unidentifiable. 



21. Proc. gelida, p. 564. I think that this name was based upon the species 

 subsequently named flavirostris by Mr. Gould, the proper name of which ap- 

 pears to be Priofinus gelidus. 



22. Proc. alba, p. 565. Evidently a species of JEstrelata, and probably some 

 one of the plumages of JE. Lessoni. 



Latham, Index Ornithologicus, ii. (1790.) 



Of Dr. Latham's three principal works this is the one usually referred to, 

 as being the only one in which Latin binomial names are used. Most of the 

 species given in this work have exactly the same import as those of Gmelin, 

 and need not therefore be noticed. The following are the chief points re- 

 quiring attention : 



6. Proc. alba, var. B., p. 822. "Norfolk Island Petrel." A species subse- 

 quently named Proc. Phillippi by Gray, with which P. mollis Gould is consid- 

 ered as probably synonymous. 



18. Proc. marina, p. 826. First definite characterization of the type of the 

 genus Pelagodroma {Pel. fregata Bp. Pel. marina, Reich.) 



21. Proc. Forsteri, p. 827, = Proc. vittata Gm. 



23. Proc. pacifica p. 827. Same as that of Gmelin. The name is unidenti- 

 fiable, unless we regard it as expressive of a valid species. By Mr. Gray it is 

 so considered (Cat. Birds Pac. Isl.) and the'following cited as synonymous : 

 Nectris fuliginosus (Sol.) Banks, ic. 23. Proc.fuliginosa Kuhl, sp. 27 ; (hxxmot 

 Kuhl's sp. 12 !) Puff, pacificus Gray, Gen. Birds, p. 647. It is a large Puffinus, 

 22 inches long, with flesh-colored bill and feet; from Euopoa. 



24. Proc. obscura, p. 828, = that of Gmelin. By Mr. Gray this name is con- 

 sidered the same as that of Vieillot, (Nouv. Diet. xxv. p. 423, and Gal. Ois. 

 tab. 301 ;) and is made to include the Australian form (figured by Mr. Gould, 

 pi. 59 of the B. Aust. and named by him assimilis,) which is considered dis- 

 tinct by the majority of writers. 



Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. oVHist. Nat. xxv. (1817.) 



The article " Petrel " of this work is in general a close copy of Gmelin and 

 Latham. Certain points, however, may be noticed. 

 Proc. pelagica, p. 416. Mentions under this head the "Petrel 6chasse" of 



Temminck. 

 Proc. grallaria, Vieill. p. 418. First name of the species subsequently named 

 leucogaster by Gould ; unless as is possibly the case fregata of Linnaeus 

 be this species rather than the Pelagodroma marina. 

 Proc.fuliginosa, p. 418. Latham's Otaheite species, whatever that maybe. 



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