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PROCELLARIID.T,. 



/, g. Pull. St. 

 A, i. Pull. sk. 

 j. Pull. sk. 



Great Britain. 

 Scotland {J. Dunn) 

 Orkney Islands. 



k, I. S ad. sk. Lincolnshire coast, Nov. 10. 



m. Ad. St. 

 n. Ad. St. 



0. 5 ad. sk. 



r- 



Ad. sk. 



q. S ad- sk. 

 ?•. Ad. sk. 

 s. Pull. sk. 

 t. Ad. sk. 



u. Pull. sk. 

 D-r. Skeletons. 

 y-h' , Sterna. 



Eno-lish Channel. 

 Torquay, Devonshire. 



North Atlantic, lat. 46° 20' N., 

 long. 9° 58' W., June 15, 

 1852 {F. M. Rayner). 



Malta. 



Tunis. 



Fantee, W. Africa (Ussher). 



'Europe.] 

 South Africa.] 



2. Procellaria tethys. 



Purchased. 

 H.Seebohm,Esq.[P.J, 

 Baron H. von Hiigel 



[P.]. 

 H. Seebohm, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 

 C. Coningham, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Voy.ILM.S.' Herald.' 



H.E.Strickland, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 L. Eraser [C.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Purchased. 

 Sir Andrew Smith 



[P.]. 

 Gould Coll. 



Procellaria teihja, Bp. in J.f. Oni. 1853, p. 47; id. Compt. Rend. 

 xx.wiii. p. G62 (1854); ill. op. cit. xlii. p. 769 (1856); id. Consp. 

 Av. ii. p. 197 (1856) ; Cotees, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1864, pp. 80, 90; Salv, 

 Trans. Zool. Soo. ix. p. 507, pi. 88. fig. 2 (1876) ; Ridyiv. Man. N, 

 Am. Birds, p. 70 (1887) ; Towns. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 142 

 (1890). 



Procellaria pelagica, Neboiix apud Bp. 



Adult. Similar to P. ijelagica but a little larger ; the upper tail- 

 coverts wholly white, the greater wing-coverts paler sooty but not 

 margined with greyish white, the under wing-coverts wholly sooty, 

 and the tail slightly forked. Total length about (i inches, wing 5-4;. 

 tail, outer rectrices 2-3, middle rectrices 2-15 ; bill 0-65 ; tarsi and 

 toes deficient. 



Hah. Galapagos Islands and West coast of Central America. 



a. Ad. sk. ' Purchased. 



2. HALOCYPTENA. 



Type. 



Halocyptena, Coues, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1864, p. 78 H. microsoma. 



Range. West coast of America from the Gulf of California ta 

 the Bay of Panama. 



1. Halocyptena microsoma. 



Halocyptena microsoma, Cohcs. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1864, pp. 79,90; id. 

 op. cit. 1866, p. 191 ; id. Key N. Am. Birds, p. 328 (1872), ed. 2, 

 p. 780 (1884) ; id. Check-list N. Am. Birds, p. 126 (1882) ; 

 Plliot, Birds of N. Am. ii. pi. 61. lig. 2 (1867) ; Forbes, Voy. 

 Chall, Zool. iv. pt. xi. p. 55 (1882) ; Ridyw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 V. p. 534 (1883); id. Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 69 (1887); Baird, 

 Brew. S,- Ridyw. Water- Birds N. Am. ii. p. 402 (1884) ; A. O. U. 



