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Bay District, Xcw South Wales, \'ictoi"ia, and Soutii Australia, 

 Tasmania, West and South-West Australia. This is written 

 without consideration of known facts, a brilliant instance of the 

 same being in connection with Pterodroma solandri (Gould), which, 

 at the time Ramsay wrote, was represented bv a single specimen 

 procured by Gould in Bass Strait. 



I will deal with the species named above in that order. 



Fregettornis grallarius (White-bellied Storm-Petrel). — This was 

 descril)ed from " .\ustraUa," but 1 cannot trace any definite 

 record. Gould does not give any Australian range at all, writing : — 

 " I observed it to be very generally distributed over the South 

 Indian Ocean, and I have reason to believe that it ranges over 

 all the temperate latitudes between the Cape of Good Hope and 

 Cape Horn, and it. is not unlikely that it may inhabit similar 

 latitudes in the South Atlantic." Ramsay marks it for 7, 10, 

 12, I J, 14, noting there are no specimens in the Museum. 

 Campbell copied this range, commenting ; — " Flies chiefly over 

 the surface of the southern seas, but is probably scarce in Aus- 

 tralian waters." I have examined the type specimen, which is 

 now one hundred years old, during which time it has been stuffed 

 and set up to public view and light in the Paris Museum. There 

 is no definite locality, so that in any case we have a dubious record, 

 while no specimen has since been procured in Australian seas. 

 From Lord Howe Island, collected by Mr. Roy Bell, I received 

 specimens killed by cats, and stray birds, representing three 

 distinct species. None of these agreed exactly with the type, 

 but i( that came from these seas one should. There is, however, 

 the possibility that the type might have been procured in Western 

 Australian seas, in which case it might show the observed differ- 

 ences. Until series are collected or the breeding-place discovered, 

 this species can have no definite place on the Australian list. 



PufTinus assimilis assimilis (.\llied Petrel). — Under the . name 

 Piif/iiuis )iiig(ix (iould wrote : — " All the specimens of this species 

 that I have seen were procured on Norfolk Island, where it is said 

 to liiccd : conse([uentl\", the seas washing the eastern shores of 

 .\ustralia niav be considered its native habitat." Ramsa\' recorded 

 it from 7, 10, 12, starring it as being in the Museum. Campbell 

 added Western Australia from personal knowledge, quoting Gould 

 for the rcuiainder of the extended range given. I have seen 

 specimens from Eastern Australia labelled as this species, but 

 tliey all proved to be Reinholdia reinlwldi hyroni, and no record 

 is known to me of this form from the eastern coast. North also 

 stated that no mainland record was available from the east coast. 

 I tlierefore await such before admitting this form. The western 

 race, Piiffiniis assijiiilis titrncyi is, of course, well established as a 

 l)reeding form at tlie .\brolhos and I'lsewhere off Western Aus- 

 tralia. 



Reinholdia reinholdi huttoni (Brown-backed Petrel). — I included 

 this specimen, wliirli 1 described as breecUng at Snares Island, 



