a[ 6. OESXUELATA. 403 



^strelata LfGsitata, lip. Covijyt. Bend. xlii. p. 768 (1856) ; Coues, 

 Pr. Ac. Phil. 1866, pp. 1»9, 170; id. Key N. yim. Birds, p. 328 

 (1872) ; Elliot, Birds N. Am. ii. pi. 60. f. 1 (18G8) ; Giyl. ^- Salvad. 

 Ibis, 1869, p. 66 ; <ScZ. S,- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 149 (1873) ; 

 A. O. U. Check-l. N. A^n. Birds, p. 102 ; Ridqiv. Man. N. Am. Birds, 

 p. G6 (1887); Cory, Aid; v. p. 81 (1888); id. Cat. West Ind. 

 Birds, p. 84 (1892) ; Fvilden, Tr. Norf. Sr Norio. Nat. Mist. Soc. 

 V. p. 24 (1890) ; Laim: Auk, viii. p. 61 (1891). 



Fulmarus meridionalis, Bp. Compt. Reyid. xlii. p. 768 (1856). 



yEstrelata diabolica, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 189 (1855) ; id. Compt. Mend. 

 "^ xlii. p. 768 (1856). 



ffistrelata lifesitata, Newton, Ibis, 1870, p. 277 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. 

 viii. p. 545, pi. 618 (1880) ; B. 0. U. List Brit. Birds, p. 200 

 (1883); Saund. ed. YarrelVs Brit. Birds, iv. p. 8 (1884); id. 

 Man. Brit. Birds, p. 713 (1889) ; Baird, Breiv., S,- Ridyiv. Water- 

 Birds N. Am. ii. p. 394 (1884); Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 202; 

 Cones, Check-l. N. Atn. Birds, p. 126 (1882) ; id. Key N. Am. 

 Birds, ed. 2, p. 779 (1884) ; Stevens. Birds Norf. iii. p. 361, pi. 4 

 (1890). 



Fulmarus haesitatus. Gray, Hand-l. iii. p. 106 (1871). 



Diablotin, Luicr. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 68 (1878). 



(Estrelata, sp., Lawr. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 488 (1879). 



Afhdt. Upper surface soory brown, a little paler on the upper 

 part of the back ; crown black ; back of the neck and the upper 

 tail-coverts white, anterior lores and whole under surface white ; 

 forehead and region in front and below the eye black, mottled with 

 white ; under wing-coverts white, margin of the wing sooty-black ; 

 tail black, white on the basal two-tliirds and the .shafts white : bill 

 black ; tarsi and toes yellow, the distal portion of the latter and the 

 webs for the same distance bhick. Total length about 16 inches, 

 wing 11"3; tail, central rectrices 5, lateral rectrices 3-8; bill J '7, 

 tarsus 1'56, middle toe 2, outer toe a little shorter, inner toe 1-6. 



Hah. West Indies : Haiti and Martinique. 



fl. Ad. sk. Haiti (J. Hearne). Zool. Soc. 



5. (Estrelata jamaicensis. 



? The larger dark Petterill or Shearwater, Browne, Jamaica, p. 482 



(1789). 

 Procellaria jamaicensis, Bancroft, Znol. Journ. v. p. 81 (1826). 

 Blue-Moimtain I)uck, Gosse, Birds Jamaica, p. 437 (1847). 

 Pterodroma caribbtea, Carte, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 93, ]>]. 10. 

 Estrelata (Pterodroma) caribba?a, Gigl. ^- Salvad. Ibis, 1869, p. 66. 

 Fulmarus caribbieus. Gray, Hand-l. Jj. iii. p. 107 (1871). 

 ^Estrelata cnribb?er, Scl. ^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neo/r. p. 149 (1873). 

 CEstrt'lata jamaicensis, A. l^ E. Newton, ILmdb. Jamaica, 1881, 



p. 117 ; Morris, Nature, 1881, xxv. p. 151. 

 /Estrelata jamaicensis, liidgw. Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 67; Con/, 



Auk, v. p. 81 (1888) ; 'id. Cat. Wed Ind. Birds, p. 84 (1892) 



Adult male.- Sootj'-brown, nearly uniform, a little darker on the 

 back, paler on the under surface, greyer on tlie forehead and ihroat; 

 upper tail-coverts dirty-white; tail sooty-black, the lateral rectrices 

 dirty-white at the base, the shafts of the same colour : bill and feet 



