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PROCELLARIID^. 



Adult female. Greyish black, darkest on the head and becoming 

 gradually greyer towards the rump, the upper tail-coverts being 

 ashy with darker shafts ; wings black ; median coverts ashy, these 

 feathers as well as those of the back and the upper tail-coverts edged 

 narrowly with white ; under surface from the breast to the under 

 tail-coverts and the inner under wing-coverts pure white ; the 

 flanks and the sides of the latter streaked with grey ; tail grey, 

 broadly tipped with black : bill and legs black. Total length about 

 6-7 inches, wing 5*2, tail 2-7, bill 0"65, tarsus 1'25, middle toe 1'2, 

 outer toe 1, inner toe 0'92. 



Male. Similar to the female. 



Hab. Southern Ocean from Kerguelen Land to ]S'ew Zealand 

 and the Falkland Islands. 



a. ^. ad. sk. Royal Sound, Kerguelen Land Transit of Venus 



(Hev. A. E. Eaton). Expedition. 



b. Ad. sk. Kerguelen Land ( U.S. Transit Seebohm Coll. 



of Venus Exped.). 



c. $ ad. sk. Southern Ocean, lat. 43° S., Geological Mus. [P.]. 



long. 140° E. 



d. Ad. sk. Off E. coast of N. S. Wales, Capt. Stanley [P.] 



July (J. Macgillivray). 



e. Ad. sk. [Australian Seas.] Purchased. 



/. Ad. sk. New Zealand. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



ff, h. S 2 ad.sk. S.E. Island, Chatham Is., May. H. 0. Forbes, Esq. 



[0.]. 

 t. Ad.sk. Falklnndls. {Falkland Is. Co.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



6. PELAGODROMA. 



type. 



Pelagodroma, Reichenbach, Av. Si/st. Nat. p. iv (1852) ; 

 Corns, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1864, p. 87 ; Forbes, Voy. ChalL, 

 Zool. iv. pt. xi. p. 56, &c. (1882) ." P. marina. 



Hah. Southern Ocean, northwards in the Atlantic Ocean to the 

 Canary Islands. 



1. Pelagodroma marina. 



Frigate Petrel, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 2, p. 410 ; id. Gen. Hist. x. 



p. 189 (1824). 

 Procellaria marina. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 826 (1790) ; Kuhl, Beiir. 



p. 137 (1820) ; Vieill. A. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxv. p. 419 (1817) ; id. 



Gal. Ois. ii. p. 230, pi. 292 (1825) ; Schl. Mus. P.-B., vi. Procell. 



p. 5 (1863). 

 Pachyptila marina, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 253 (1826). 

 Oceanites marinus, Kei/s. d^ Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. xciii (1840) ; Reid, 



Ibis, 1888, p. 80. 

 Thalassidroma marina, Gray, List Anseres Brit. Mus. p. 161 (1844) ; 



id. Gen. B. iii. p. 648 (1844); id. Voy. Ereb. 8c Terr., Birds, 



p. 17 (1846); id. Ibis, 1872, p. 244; Gould, Birds Austr. vii. 



pi. 61 (1845); Reich. Si/st. Av., Suppl. Lonr/ij). pi. xi. fig. 774 



(1852) ; Pelz. Reis. Novara, Zool. i. Voy. p. 144 (1869) ; Finsch, 



J.f. Orn. 1870, p. 370 : Button, Cat. Birds N. Zeal. p. 48(1871); 



id. Ibis, 1872, p. 249. 

 Pelagodroma marina, Reich. Av. Syst. Nat. p. iv (1852) ; Cottes, Pr. 



Ac. Phil. 1866, p. 192 ; Salt: in Roicley^s Orn. Misc. i. p. 228 



(1876) ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 736 ; id. Voy. ChalL, Zool. ii. pt. viii. 



p. 142 (1881); Ridgu'. Auk, ii. p. 386; id. Man. N. Am. Birds, 



