PROCELLARIID^ — THE PETllELS — PRIOCELLA. 



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Genus PRIOCELLA, Hombron and Jacquinot. 



PrioccUa, HoMC. & Jacq. Conipt. Rend. XVIII. 1844, 357 (type, P. Garnoti, Homb. & Jacq., =P/-y. 

 ccllaria glacialoidcs, Smith). 



Char. Similar to Fulmarus, but bill much slenderer, the nasal tubes shorter, more depressed, 

 concave on top, and separated by a wide space from the maxillary unguis. 



P. glacialoides. 



The generic name Thalassoica, Reich. ("Syst. Av." 1852, p. iv) has usually been employed for 

 this species. But, aside from any question of priority (Thalassoica dating 1852, and PrioccUa 1844), 

 the type of Tlialassoica is explicitly stated to be the Proccllaria antarctica (Gmel.), a bird which the 

 late Professor W. A. Forbes- has recently (" Zool. ' Challenger,'" Vol. IV. 1882, p. 59) made the type 

 of a new genus, AeijKtes, and which is certainly perfectly distinct generically from the type of the 

 genus Priocella. Aeipetes, however, is cleaily a synonyme of Thalassoica. 



Priocella glacialoides. 



THE SLENDER-BILLED FULMAR. 



Procellaria tenuirostris, Aud. Orn. Biog.V. 1839, 333 ; B. Am. VII. 1844, 210 (not of Temm. 1828). — 

 Lawk, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 826. — Baird, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 637. 



Thalassoica glacialoides, b. tenuirostris, Bon'AP. Consp. II. 1856, 192. 



Fulmarus tenuirostris, CouES, Check List, 1873, no. 583. 



Priocella tenuirostris, Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 2, 1880, 209 ; Norn. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 

 706. — CouES, 2d Check List, 1882, no. 817. 



Procellaria glacialoides. Smith, lUustr. S. Afr. B. 1849 (?), t. 51. 



Thalassoica glacialoides, Keichexb. Syst. Av. 1852, p. iv. — Boxap. Consp. II. 1856, 192. — CouES, 

 Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1866, 30. 



Thalassoica glacialoidcs, a. jwlaris, BoxAP. Consp. II. 1856, 192. 



Procellaria Smithi, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Proc. 1863, 22. 



Priocella Garnoti, Homb. et Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud. III. 1853, pi. 32, fig. 42 (fide Gkay). 



Hab. Seas throughout the southern hemisphere ; also, whole Pacific coast of North America 

 (common off the Columbia River). Apparently absent from the North Atlantic. 



Sp. Char. Adult : Head, neck, and lower parts white ; upper parts pale pearl-gray, fading 

 gradually into the white of the head ; remiges dark slate, the inner webs of the primaries chiefly 

 white. " Irides brownish black ; nostrils, culmen, and a portion of the base of the upper mandible 

 bluish lead-color ; tips of both mandibles fleshy horn-color, deepening into black at their points ; 

 remainder of the bill pinky flesh-color ; legs and feet gray, washed with pink on the tarsi, and 

 blotched with slaty black on the joints" (Gould). ^ 



1 Male killed at Valparaiso, Chili, Aug. 4, 1879 

 patches" (Shakpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 11). 



"Legs gray, with blue stains ; bill gray, with blue 



