396 PUFFINIDJE. 



Procell. p. 20 (1863) ; Van Keinpen, Bull. Zool. Soc. Fr. xiv. p. lOG 

 (1889). 



Procellaria nigra, Forst. Descr. An. p. 26 (1844). 



Majaquevis sequinoctialis, Bp. Conipt. Rend. xlii. p. 768 (18o6) ; id. 

 Consp. Av. ii. p. 200 (1856) ; Coues, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1864, pp. 118, 

 142 ; Gigl. Faun. Vert. Oceano. p. 3.5 (1870) ; Scl. 8j- Salv. Nomencl. 

 Av. Neotr. p. 149 (1873) ; Coues ^ Kidder, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 no. 2 (1875) ; Kidder, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 3, p. 13 (1876) ; 

 Salv. in Rowley's Orn. 3Iisc. i. p. 232 (1876) ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, 

 p. 737 ; id. op. cit. 1883, p. 431 ; id. Voy. ' Chall.,' Zool. ii. pt. viii. 

 p. 143 (1881) ; id. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 629 (1882) ; id. Ibis, 1894, 

 p. 498; Moseley, Notes Nat. ' ChalV pp. 137, 208, 254 (1879) ; 

 Sharpe, Phil. Trans. cLtvili. p. 119 (1879); id. P. Z. S. 1881, 

 p. 12 ; id. ed. LayarcFs Birds S. Afr. p. 766 (1884) ; Saunders, 

 P. Z. S. 1880, p. 164; Lucas, Auk, iv. p. 3 (1887) ; Buller, Tr. 

 N. Zeal. Inst. xxv. pp. 62, 80 (1893) ; id. op. cit. xxvii. p. 122 

 (1895) ; Button, Tr. N. Z. Imt. xxvii. p. 177 (1895). 

 , Majaqueus conspicillatus, Bp. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 768 (1856) ; id. 



Consp. Av. ii. p. 200 (1856); Coues, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1864, pp. 118, 

 142 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. ii. p. 445 (1865) ; Giffl. Faun. 

 Vert. Oceano, p. 36 (1870) ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 629 (1882). 



Puffinus conspicillatus, Pelz. Reise Novara, Zool. i. Vciy. p. 143 (1869). 



Fulmanis sequinoctialis et conspicillatus, Gray, Iland-l. B. iii. p. 108 

 (1871). 



Adult male. Sooty-black, the feathers of the back and the wing- 

 coverts with slightly paler edges ; chin white ; shafts of the pri- 

 maries white : bill yellowish horn-colour, with the spaces between 

 the various portions of the sheath of both mandible and maxilla 

 black; feet black. Total length about 20 inches, wing 15; tail, 

 central rectrices 5'3, lateral rectrices 4"5 ; bill 2-6, tarsus 2-6, middle 

 and outer toes 3-25, inner toe 2*8. 



The amount of white on the chin varies very much in dif- 

 ferent individuals. Some have an irregular white stripe running 

 from near the base of the mandible under the eye almost to the 

 nape, and a transverse band across the forehead in front of the eye. 

 Upon such specimens Gould founded his J7. conspicillatus, a form 

 recognized by Dr. Coues as distinct, but apparently connected with 

 the typical form by every degree of variation. 



Hab. South Seas, north to about lat. 30° S. 



Lr-Ub- ^' a. c? ad. sk. Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Voy. H.M.S. ' Rattle- <- -'' 



Hope, Mar. 16, 1847 (/. Mac- snake.' 

 ffillivray). 



'■ '' I b. Ad. sk. Cape of Good Hope {E. L. Shelley Coll. 



Bayard) . 



Ur.l^-y y c. Ad. sk. Cape of Good Hope {S. Afr. Shelley Coll. 

 Mus.). 



V d, e. Ad. sk. Cape Seas. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



I /. Ad. sk. Cape Seas. Mrs. Dundas [P.]. 



q. Ad. St. Cape Seas. Old Collection. 



,-• A. Ad. sk. Cape Seas, lat. 34° 39' S., Earl of Crawford and 



long. 8° 51' E., Sept. 19. Balcarres [P.]. 



!j- /L.£- ;^- 1, /. Ad. sk. Southern Ocean, lat. 29° 45' & Earl of Crawford and M-. /<^' 



■ 32° S., Oct. 20, 24. Balcarres [P.]. 



