11. DAPTION. 429 



(1826); Gould, Voy. ' Beagle ,' ii. Bird^, p. 140 (1841); id. Birds 

 Austr. vii. pi. 53 (1847) ; id. Hand'). Birds Austr. ii. p. 4G9 (IStJo) ; 

 Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 188 (18oo) ; id. C'ompt. Rend. xlii. p. 768 

 (1850) ; Lawr. Birds N. Am. p. 828 (1860) ; Layard, Ibis, 1862, 

 p. 97, 1803, p. 245 ; D. Walker, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 379 ; Mutton, 

 Ibis, 1805, p. 287, 1867, p. 188, 1874, p. 42 ; Coues, Pr. Ac. Phil. 

 1860, pp. 162, 171 ; id. Key N. Am. Birds, p. 328 (1872) ; Saunders, 

 Ibis, 1800, p. 124 ; id. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 164 ; Hume, Ibis, 1870, 

 p. 438 ; id. Stray F. vii. pp. 442, 403 (1878), viii. p. 115 (1879) ; 

 Fiiisch ^- Hartl. Voy. Ost-Afr. p. 816 (1870) ; Giyl. Faun. Vert. 

 Oceano, p. 40 (1870); id. Viayy. ^Magenta' (^ee index) (1875); 

 Gurney in Anderss. Birds Damara-L. p. 353 (1872) ; Scl. 4" Sa.lv. 

 Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 149 (1873); Buller, Birds N. Zeal. p. 299 

 (1873), ed. 2, ii. p. 215 (1888) ; id. Ibis, 1874, p. 121 ; Finsch, 

 J.f. Orn. 1870, p. 373, 1874, p. 208 ; id. Ibis, 1888, p. 309 ; Salv. 

 Ibis, 1875, pp. 373, 376 ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 737 ; id. op. cit. 1883, 

 p. 432 ; id. Voy. ' ChalV, Zool. ii. pt. viii. p. 144 (1881) ; id. Cat. 

 Strickl. Coll. p. 630 (1882); Cab. Sr Reichenow, J.f. Orn. 1870, 

 p. 329 ; Marti. Viig. Maday. p. 377 (1877) ; Moseley, Notes Nat. 

 • Chali: pp. 134, 137, 183, 229 (1879) ; Skarpe, Phil. Trans, clxviii. 

 p. 118 (1879 ) : id. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 12 ; id. ed. Layard's Birds S. Afr. 

 p. 767 (1884); Legge, Birds Ceylon,]). lOoO (1880) ; Ridrpv. Pr. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 230 (1881) ; id. Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 69 

 (1887) ; Bocuge, Orn. Anr/ola, p. 517 (1881) ; B. O. U. List Brit. 

 Birds, p. 199 (1883) ; Oates, Mandb. Birds Biirm. ii. p. 436 (1883) ; 

 Coppi/K/er, Cruise of the ' Alert,' p. 87 (1883) ; Baird, Brew., S( 

 Ridgio'. Water-Birds N. Am. ii. p. 400 (1884) ; A. O. U. Check-l. 

 N. Am. Birds, p. 103 (1886) ; Lucas, Auk, iv. p. 4 (1887); Shufeldt, 

 Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 378 (1887) ; Clieeseman, Tr. N. Zeal. 

 Inst, xxiii. p. 224 (1891) ; Aplin, Ibis, 1894, p. 212 ; Scl. Ibis, 1894, 

 p. 499. 



Procellaria punctata, Ellman, Zoologist, 1861, p. 7473. 



Cape Hen, Chapni. Trav. in S. Afr. ii. p. 425 (1868). 



Fulmanis capen.^is, Gray, Mand-l. iii. p. 107 (1871). 



Calopetes capen.sis, Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 142. 



Daptium capense, Coues, Check-l. N. Am. Birds, p. 126 (1882) ; 

 id. Key N. Am. Birds, ed. 2, p. 779 (1884) ; Stearns, New 

 England Bird-Life, ii. p. 386 (1883) ; Saunders, in Yarr. Brit. 

 Birds, ed. 4, iv. p. 11 (1884) ; Meyer, Abbild. Vogel-Skel. pt. xi. 

 (1886) ; Finsch, Ibis, 1888, p. 309. 



Daptrion capensis, Tacz. Orn. Per. iii. p. 465 (1886). 



Adult. Upper surface w^hite, each feather broadh" tipped with 

 dusky black, the feathers of the head and back of the neck black to 

 their bases, the lesser wing-coverts •wholly dusky, the median coverts 

 •with a white margin to the outer web ; quills outwardly black : 

 inner webs white nearly to the tip, the bases of the outer webs, 

 except the outermost primary, also wliite ; under surface white, the 

 chin dusky, and the feathers of the throat and the under tail- 

 coverts tipped with dusky; under wing-coverts white, margin of 

 the wing and tips of the axillaries dusky ; tail white, tipped with 

 dusky : bill and feet black. Total length about 16 inches, wing 

 10-5, tail ^-9, bill 1-7, tarsus 1"9, middle and outer toes 2-3, inner 

 toe 1-85. 



Bab. Southern Seas generally, north to Ceylon, and to lat. 5° S. 

 on the coast of Peru. 



