392 PUFFINIDiE. 



q. Ad. sk. Antarctic Circle. Old Collection. 



r. Ad. sk. South Seas. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



s. Ad. sk. South Seas (I£. King). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



t. Ad. sk. South Seas. Old Collection. 



u. Skeleton. Off Cape Horn, May 1870. Salvin-Godman Coll, 



3. THALASSffiCA. 



Type. 

 Thalassoeca, Reich. Syst. Av. p. iv (1852); Coves, 



Pr. Ac. Phil. 186G, p. 29 T. antarctica. 



Aeipetes, Forbes, Voy. ' Chall.,^ Zool. iv. pt. xi. p. 59 



(1882) T. antarctica. 



Range. Antarctic Ocean. 



1. Thalassoeca antarctica. 



Antarctic Peteril, Cook, Voy. i. p. 257 ; Forster, Voy. i. p. 108 ; Lath. 



Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 2, p. 400 (1785) ; id. Gen. Hist. x. p. 177 (1824). 

 Le P(5trel Antarctique ou Damier brun, Bii^. Hist. Nat. Ois. x. 



p. 151 (1786). 

 Procellaria antarctica, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 665 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. 



Orn. ii. p. 822 (1790) ; Kuhl, Beitr. p. 145 (1820) ; Vieill. N. 



Diet. (VHist. Nat. xxv. p. 417 (1820) ; id. Enc. Meth. p. 75 (182.3) ; 



Gray, List Anseres Brit. Mus. p. 163 (1844) ; id. Gen. Birds, iii. 



p. 648 (1844); Peale, U.S. E.vpl. Exp. viii. p. 338 (1848); Reich. 



Av. Syst. Nat., Natatores, pi. 22. fig. 790 (1850) ; Jacq. ^ Puch. 



Voy. Pole Sud, Zool. iii. p. 139 (1853); Schlet^. Mus. P.-B., vi. Procell. 



p. 15 (1863) ; Pelz. Reise Nov., Zool. l, Voy. p. 147 (1869). 

 Daption antarcticum, Stejjh. in Shaiv's Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 242 (1826). 

 Thalassoeca antarctica, Reich. St^st. Av. p. iv (1852) ; Bp. Consp. Av. 



ii. p. 192 (1855) ; id. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 768 (1856) ; Coues, 



Pr. Ac. Phil. 1866, pp. 31, 192 ; Scl. ^ Snlv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. 



p. 149 (1873) ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 736 ; id. Voy. ' Chall.; Zool. 



ii. pt. viii. p. 142 (1881) ; Lucas, Auk, iv. p. 4 (1887) ; Buller, Birds 



N. Zeal. ed. 2, ii. p. 229 (1888) ; Scl. Ibis, 1894, p. 498. 

 Fulmarus antarcticus, Gray, Hand-l. ^. iii. p. 105 (1871); Ridgw. 



Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 58 (1887). 

 Priocella antarctica, Sharpe, Voy. ' Ereb. Sf Terror^ i. Birds, App., 



p. 37, pi. 33 (1875) ; Hector, Trans. N. Zeal. hist. ix. p. 464. 

 Aeipetes antarctica, Forbes, Voy. '■Chall.^ Zool. iv. pt. xi. p. 59 (1882). 



Adult female. Upper surface brown, the inner secondaries and 

 larger wing-coverts white ; upper tail-coverts white, the central 

 feathers brown at the tips ; quills outwardly brown, the shafts and 

 inner webs white nearly to the tip ; under surface white, the throat 

 and sides of the neck pale brown, the bases of the feathers white ; 

 under wing-coverts and asillaries white, the edge of the wing 

 brown ; tail white, the tip brown : bill blackish horn-colour ; tarsi 

 and toes yellowish, the outer toe darker. Total length about 

 17 inches, wing 12, tail 4'2, bill 2, tarsus 1-7, middle and outer 

 toes 2-3, inner toe 1"9. 



Sexes alike. 



Hah. Antarctic Seas. 



