3. OCEANODROMA. 358 



" Adult CNo. 1555, Science College Museum, Tokyo; Torishima, 

 Japan, 1891 ; Y. Tanalca). Crown, occiput, hind neck, back, 

 scapulars, and u])per rump uniform dark sooty-slate, darker and 

 more sooty on posterior scapulars, the longest feathers of which are 

 distinctly paler at ends, with a narrow terminal margin of brownish 

 white ; lesser and uppermost median and greater wing-coverts 

 sooty-black ; rest of win g-co verts and tertials light greyish brown 

 (between ' broccoli ' and ' hair-brown ') ; alula, primary-coverts, and 

 remiges uniform sooty-black; lower rump light greyish brown; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail sooty-black, like remiges, &c. Anterior 

 portion of head, all round, silky deep sooty-grey or greyish brown, 

 deepening gradually into the darker colour of occiput, &c. ; under- 

 parts uniform sooty-greyish brown (much like colour of greater 

 wing-coverts), the under wing-coverts rather lighter and more 

 tinged with brown : bill and feet black. Total length (skin) about 

 10-00 inches, wing 7*50, tail •1'45, forked for 1"60, culmen 0-70, 

 depth of bill just before nasal tubes 0"2o, tarsus I'lO, middle toe 

 with claw 1"10. 



" Hah. Japanese Seas. 



" In coloration this species much resembles 0. homocliroa, but is 

 darker. Its very large size is, however, its most obvious distinctive 

 character." 



The above description has been supplied to mo by ^Ir. Eidgway. 



I believe Mr. Stejneger is right in referring the bird described 

 above to the hitherto unrecognized Procdlaria fulu/inosa, Gm. 

 The application of the specific name fulujinosa to this species 

 involves the rejection of it for every other species of Petrel except 

 Phoebeiria fulvjinosa. 



6. Oceanodroma melania. 



Procellaria melania, Bp. Compt. Rend, xxxviii. p. 662 (1854). 

 Thalassidroma melania, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 196 (1856) ; id. Compt. 



Bend. xlii. p. 769 (1856). 

 Cymocborea melania, Coues, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1864, p. 76 ; id. Key N. 



Am. Birds, ed. 1, p. 329(1872), ed. 2, p. 781 (1884); id. Check-l. 



N. Am. Birds, -p. 127 (1882); id. Auk, 1884, p. 81; Blliot, B. 



N. Am. ii. pi. 61. fig. 1 (1867) ; Nelson, Cruise ' Corwin,' p. 113 



(1883) ; Ridgiv. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 534 (1883) ; id. Auk, 



vi. p. Ill (1886); Baird, Brew. S,- Ridyic. Water-Birds N. Am. 



ii. p. 411 (1884); Cooper, Auk, 1886, p. 125; A. O. U. Check-l. 



N. Am. Birds, p. 105 (1886). 

 Oceanodroma melania, Ridyiv. Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 70 (1887). 

 Thalassidroma scapulata(?), Brandt, fide Bp. 

 Oceanodroma townsendi, Ridfftv. Pr.' U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 687. 



Adult. Sooty-black, uniform above, rather paler on the under 

 surface ; greater and median wing-coverts pale greyish sooty-brown ; 

 tail forked ; rectrices uniform sooty-black : bill and legs black. 

 Total length about 9 inches, wing 7 ; tail, central rectrices 2-3, lateral 

 rectrices 3'5 ; bill 0-82 (exposed culmen 0-6), tarsus 1*21, middle 

 toe and claw 1-2. {Type in Mus. Paris.) 



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