408 PUFFINID^. 



and the distal portion of the rest black. Total lenj^h about 1 7 

 inches, wing 12 ; tail, central rectrices 5-5, lateral rectrices 3-5 ; 

 bill 1-65, tarsus 1*6, middle and outer toes 1-9, inner toe 1'6. 



Hah. Eastern North Pacific Ocean from the Galapagos to the 

 Hawaiian Archipelago. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Chatham I., Galapagos Capt. Kellett and Lieut 



Arch. Wood[C.]. 



(Types of the species.) 



c. Ad. sk. Kaui, Hawaiian Arch. Prof. Collett [P.]. 



{Knudsen) . 



12. (Estrelata brevipes. 



ProceUaria brevipes, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exp. viii. pp. 294, 337, pi. 80 



(1848), apiid Stejneger. 

 ProceUaria torquata, Macgillivray, Zool. xviii. p. 7133. 

 ProceUaria cooki, Cass. U.S. Expl. Exp. p. 414 (1858) (nee Gray). 

 ProceUaria desolata, Schl. Mus. P.-B., vi. ProceU. p. l3 (1863). 

 Estrelata cooki, Coues, Pi: Ac. Phil. 1866, p. 152. 

 yEstrelata desolata, Coues, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1866, p. 155; Giyl. ^ 



Salmd. Ibis, 1869, p. 66. 

 Fulmarus aneiteimensis. Gray, Hand-l. Birds, iii. p. 107 (1871). 

 (Estrelata leucoptera, Salv. Ibis, 1876, p. 393 ; Finsch, P. Z. S. 1879, 



p. 16 ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. iii. p. 466 (1882). 

 ? ProceUaria caerulea, Layard, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 498. 

 Estrelata leucoptera, Pidgio. Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 65 (1887) (nee 



Gould). 

 Q]]strelata torquata, Salv. Ibis, 1888, p. 3-59 ; id. op. cit. 1891, p. 411, 



pi. 9 ; Harting, Zool. 1890, p. 454. 

 ^Estrelata brevipes, Stejn. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. pp. 617-9 (1893). 



Adult male. Upper surface slaty-black, the middle of the back, 

 larger wing-coverts, and the upper tail-coverts grey ; forehead, 

 cheeks, throat, and under surface white ; sides of the breast slaty- 

 grey ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, margin of the wing 

 and quills black ; tail greyish black, the lateral rectrices pale grey : 

 bill black ; tarsi and proximal half of the toes (except the outer 

 one) yellowish, the rest black. Total length about 11-5 inches, 

 wing 8-7 ; tail, central rectrices 3"9, lateral rectrices 2*7 ; biU 1-3, 

 tarsus 1"1, middle and outer toes 1-3, inner toe 1-1. 



As in CE. riiollis, some specimens have a complete grey band 

 across the breast (whence Macgillivray's name), whilst in others a 

 grey tint suffuses the whole of the under surface except the throat. 



Ilab. Western Pacific Ocean, New Hebrides, and Fiji Islands, to 

 the Southern-Ice barrier, lat. 68° S. (Peale), and straying to the 

 English coast. 



a. d'ad. ; b. Jad. sk. Aneiteum, New Hebrides Salvin-Godman CoU. 



(J. Macgillivray). 



c. cJ ad. ; d. § ad. sk. Aneiteum, New Hebrides, J. MacgiUivray [C.]. 



Feb. & Mar. 1859. (Types of P. torquata.) 



e, f. $ ad. sk. Viti Levu, Fiji Is., May GodefiVoy Mus. 



1878 ( T. Kleinschmidt). 



g. Ad. St. Near Aberystwith, Wales. W.Willis-Bund, Esq. 



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