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NOTE ON iESTRELATA SANDWICHENSIS RIDGW. 

 BY ROBERT RIDGW AY. 



Iii volume IX of these proceedings, p. 96, iu an additional note to 

 an article on this bird, I expressed a suspicion that it might be the 

 same as JEJ. phceopyyia Salv. (Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., Vol. ix, Part ix. 

 May, 187C, p. 507, pi. 88, fig. 1), and in my more recently published 

 "Manual of North American Birds"* (p. Go) relinquished any doubt as 

 to the question by giving the Sandwich Island bird as JE. pliceopygia. 

 In the mean time the type had been sent to Mr. Salviu for comparison 

 with the types of his species, and his letter, dated December 11, 1887, 

 confirms the views which I had adopted, as the following quotation 

 from his letter will show: 



" I have compared it [ i. e., the type of JE. sandwicliensis] with the two 

 types in the British Museum of 2Ej. phceopygia, and done my best to make 

 them different, but they are as like as any three specimens of the same 

 species of Petrel that I ever examined. The bill is a trifle small in all 

 its dimensions and outer rectrices a little more freely mottled with 

 white, but the Galapagos birds vary just as much inter se." 



* J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1887. 



Proceedings U. S. National Museum, vol. si, 1888, 

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