412 PUFFINID^. 



19. (Estrelata neglecta. 



? White-breasted Petrel, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 2, p. 400 ; id. Gen. 



Hist. B. X. p. 186 (1824). 

 Norfolk Island Petrel, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 334 (1802). 

 ? Procellaria alba, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. o65 (1788) ; Lath. hid. Orn. ii. 



p. 822 (1790); Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxv. p. 419 (1817) ; 



Gray, Gen. Birds, iii. p. 648 (1844). 

 ? ProceUaria grisea, Vieill. Enu. Meth. p. 75 (1823) (Norfolk 1.) ; Gray, 



Gen. Birds, iii. p. 674 (1844). 

 ? Procellaria variegata, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 78 (1823). 

 Daption album, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 246 (1826). 

 Rhantistes raoulensis, Bp. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 705 (descr. nulla). 

 Procellaria (Estrelata) alba, Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Is. Pacif. p. 56 



(1859). 

 Procellaria philippi, Gi-ay, Ibis, 1862, p. 246. 

 Procellaria neglecta, Schl. Mus. F.-B., vi. Procell. p. 10 (1863) ; 



Finsch, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 18. 

 Estrelata neglecta, Coues, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1866, pp. 147, 170 ; Gigl. ^ 



Salvad. Ibis, 1869, p. 66 ; Gigl. Distr. Fauna Vert. Oceano, 



p. 42 (1870) ; Pidgic. Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 67 (1887). 

 Procellaria mollis, Finsch, J.f. Orn. 1870, p. 373, 1874, p. 207. 

 Fulmarus albus. Gray, Iland-l. B. iii. p. 106 (1871). 

 CEstrelata neglecta, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. 6-'en. xviii. p. 411 (1882) ; 



id. Orn. Pap. iii. p. 465 (1882) ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 431 ; 



Bullei; Birds Netv Zeal, ed, 2, ii. p. 224 (1888) ; id. Tr. N. Zeal. 



Inst, xxiii. p. 41 (1890) ; id. op. cit. x.xvii. p. 132 (1895) ; id. P. Z. S. 



1894, p. 653; Cheei^eman, Tr. N. Z. Inst, xxiii. p. 225 (1891); 



Hutton, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 752. 

 CEstrelata mollis, Bidkr, Birds N. Zeal. ed. 2, ii. p. 222 (1888) ; id. 



Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. xxiv. p. 85 (1892) ; Ckeesetnan, Tr. N. Zeal. 



Inst, xxiii. p. 224 (1891). 

 CEstrelata pbilippi, Hutton, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 755. 

 CEstrelata leucopbrys, Hutton, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 752, pi. 63 ; Buller, 



Tr. N. Zeal. Inst, xxvii. p. 123 (1895). 

 CEstrelata neglecta, var., Hutton, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 754. 

 Procellaria raoulensis, Gould, MS. 



Adult male. Upper surface brown, the bases of the feathers 

 white, top of the head darker, feathers of the back indistinctly 

 edged with paler brown, lores and cheeks mottled with brown ; 

 under surface white, sides of the neck and breast washed with pale 

 brown ; under tail-coverts brown, their bases white ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries brown, primaries blackish brown, the bases of 

 the inner webs and the shafts adjoining white : bill black ; tarsi and 

 basal portion of the toes yellow, their tips black. Total length about 

 15*5 inches, wing 11"3 ; tail, central rectrices 4*1, lateral rectrices 

 3'7 ; bill 1-55, tarsus 1-5, middle and outer toes 1-9, inner toe 1-65. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Great variation exists as to the colour of the under surface, 

 some birds being nearly uniform greyish brown. Specimen i has 

 rather greyer plumage than any of the rest of the series. 



Hub. South Pacific Ocean. 



a. Ad. sk. Raoul I., Kermadec Group iSalvin-Godman Coll. ^M'^ 



(J. Macgillivray). (Type of P. raoulensis, 



Gould, MS.) 



