16 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



Peale wrote of "our specimens," and Pickering stated that "several" were 

 taken, but the museum records show only two, and of these but one was seen 

 by Cassin (according to his MS. list) . Both of these skins were sent in 1881 

 to the Chicago Academy of Sciences, whence they were returned in 1919. 



Peale's name, which at its first appearance was treated as an absolute 

 synonym of Procellaria furcata Gmelin 1789, of which the type locality is 

 the Bering Sea, was made valid by Grinnell and Test for a southern race, 

 with No. 15461 as the only type. 



Genus HALOCYPTENA Coues 



Halocyplena microsoma Coues 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 79 (not earlier than March 29), 



1864. 

 47216 (not 11420). Adult female. San Jose del Cabo, State of Baja 



California, Mexico. May 1861. Collected by John Xantus. Original 



number "11420." 

 The number 11420 given at the original description is not the number of 

 the museum register. It was written by Xantus himself on the original label 

 and must represent his original number, but is evidently erroneous, since as 

 late as October 10, 1861, his original numbers had only reached 5819. 

 Inasmuch as the specimen had been laid aside and was not entered into the 

 register until June 6, 1867, the label bore no number at the time of descrip- 

 tion (1864) except the one used by Coues. 



Family PELECANOIDIDAE: Diving Petrels 



Genus PELECANOIDES Lacepede 



Pelecanoides iirinatrix chathamensis Muurphy and Harper 

 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 35: 65, April 1, 1916. 

 151112. Adult male. Chatham Island (lat. 43°49' S., long. 176°40' 

 W.), Chatham Islands, Southern Ocean. February 1893. Purchased 

 from S. Dannefaerd. 



Order PELECANIFORMES: Tropic-birds, Pelicans, 



Frigate-birds 



Family PELECANIDAE: Pelicans 



Genus PELECANUS Linnaeus 



Pelecanus occipitalis Ridgway 



American Sportsman 4: 297, text-figs., August 8, 1874. 

 =Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin. See Ridgway, U.S. geological ex- 

 ploration of the 40th Parallel 3 (Orn.) : 628, 1877. 



