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pRLRCANOiDRS URiNATRix, G'mplin. Tho Diviiio' Potrel. 

 Could, ITmidhk. Bds. Ausfr., Vo\. ii., sp. fifjQ, p. 483. 



Jolin lleinhold Forster and his son Greorge Forater, wlio accom- 

 panied Captain Cook as naturalists during his second voyage in 

 1772 made drawings of this bird to which the native name of 

 Tee-tee was applied ; in Forster's Voyage, Vol. i., p. 189, it is 

 referred to as the little Diving Petrel, a name by which it was 

 subsequently described under, by Dr. Latham in 1785.* Later 

 on f Gmelin inserted it in liis Systema Natur;i3, under the designa- 

 tion of Procel/aria uriuatrlr, and in 1800 jLacepede substituted 

 the generic term Pelecanoides for that of Procellaria, which is 

 generally used by authors for this species at the present time. 

 The Diving Petrel has a most extensive range of hal)itat, and of 

 no pelagic species found in the extreme southern seas, does so 

 much doubt and difference of opinion exist amongst authors as to 

 wluch, if any of the two so called allied species, P. herardi from 

 Chili, and P. garnotii from Peru, should be included in its 

 synonymy, in fact in both instances it is only a matter of the 

 colour of the feet, a point in which all writers differ in describing 

 them, and a slight difference in the size, characters which have 

 l)een proved even in tlie same species not to be constant. 



Temminck in his Planche Colorit'esi; figures and describes P. 

 hprardi, and writes as follows : — "On doit ivunir avec cette espi'ce, 

 non-souleinent le Procpllaria ■nrinatrix des auteurs, niais encore 

 un autre, tigure trcsivcemment par M. Lesson, dans I'atlas du 

 voyage du capitaine Dupeirey, et public', pi. 4(5, sous le nom de 

 Puffin ou Pufflnurp de Garnot. On trouve cette espece sur les 

 mers qui baignent les cotes du Chili ; le Pch'candidp. jjJoiigeiir ou 

 Hcdadroina nrinatrix vit a Textn'mite meridionale des terres de la 

 Nouvelle-Hollande et de la Nouvelle Zelande." 



Gould in his Birds of Australia includes P. garnotii from 

 Peru as a synonym of P. nrinatrix, in wliich he is followed by 

 Dr. Elliot Coues, who has written as follows in the Bulletin of 

 the U.H. National Museum, after closely examining a large series 

 of PeJpcanoides nrinatrix, brought to America by Dr. Kidder, 

 from Kerguelen Island in 1875: — ||"As very strongly intimated 

 in my paper, satisfactory diagnosis of the three currently reported 

 species of this genus is wanting. Nor is my faith in their 

 distinctness increased on finding that these specimens, which from 

 the locality undoubtedly I'epresent the original P. nrinatrix, are 

 fully up to the dimensions of the supposed larger P. garnoti, from 

 the west coast of South America. Observed variation in the colour 



* Latham, Gen. Syn. Bds., Vol. iii.,pt. 2, p. 413 (1785). 



t amelin, Systema Naturte, I., p. 5G0 (1788). 



+ Laeupede, Mom. de I'lnst., p. 517 (1800). 



§ Temmhick, Planche Colom-es, Vol. v., pi. 517 (183S). 



II Cmios, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mas. No. 2, " Contributions to the Natural 

 History of Kerguelen Island made iu connec-tioa with the American 

 Transit of Venus Expedition, 1874-5, p. 3G." (1875). 



