432 



PUFFINID^. 



a. Ad. sk. Cape of Good Hope. Sir Andrew Smitli [P.]. 



(Type of P. forsteii, Smith.) 



b. Ad. sk. Eoyal Sound, Kerguelen Land Transit of Venus 



[Bev. A. E. Eaton). Exped. 



c. Ad. sk. Pacific Ocean near Cape Horn, lat. Salvin-Godman Coll. : 



50° S., long. 90° W., May 20, 

 1840 (/. Gould). 



13. PRION. 



Type. 



Prion, Lacepede, Mem. Vltist. iii. p. .513 (1801) ; Bp. 



Consp. Av. ii. p. 192 (1856) ; Cones, Pr. Ac. Phil. 



1866, p. 167 ; Forbes, Voy. ^Chall.', Zool. iv.pt. xi. 



p. 42 &c. (1882) P. vittatus. 



PacLyptila, Illki. Prodr. p. 274 (1811 ) P. vittatus. 



Vv'mm-^h.ws, Bajinesque, Anal. Tp. 72 {lS\b),Jide Bp. 



Pseudoprion, Coties, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1866, p. 164 .... P. desolatus. 



Range. Southern Ocean. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Bill very wide, edges of tlie maxilla distinctly 



convex ; lamellas distinctly visible when the 



bill is shut vittatus, p. 432. 



b. Bill naiTower, but the edges of the maxilla 



distinctly convex; lamellje only visible near 



the rictus of the closed bill bariksi, p. 434. 



c. Bill still narrower, edges of the maxilla almost 



straight ; lamellae invisible desolatus, p. 434, 



d. Bill much smaller, more compressed, the unguis 



large, sides of the maxilla straight, and the 



head, &c., paler blue-grey ariel, p. 436. 



1. Prion vittatus. 



Vittated Petrel, Forst. Voy. i. p. 153; id. Observ. p. 199. 



Blue Peteril, Cook, Voy. i. p. 29. 



Petrel bleu. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. x. p. 155. 



Broad-billed Petrel, Lath. Geti. %w. iii. pt. 2, p. 414 (1785). 



Procellaria vittata, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 560 (1788) ; Kuhl, Beitr. 



p. 149 (1820) ; Schl. Mus. P.-B., vi. Procell. p. 16 (1863) ; Pollen 



8f Van Dam, Faun. Maday., Ois. p. 144 (1868). 

 Procellaria forsteri, Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 827 (1790) ; Vieill. N. Diet. 



d'Hist. Nat. xxv. p. 421 (1817). 

 Priou vittatus, Lacep. ]\Jem. List. 1801, p. 514 ; Gould, Voy. 'Beaqh,^ 



ii. Birds, p. 141 (1841) ; id. Birds Austr. vii. pi. 55 (1844) ;' id. 



Handb. Birds Austr. p. 474 (1865) ; Gray, List Anseres Brit, 



Mus. p. 165 (1844) ; id. Gen. Birds, iii. p. 649 (1844) ; id. Voy. 



' Ereb. ^ Terr.', Zool. i. p. 18 (1846) ; id. Lbis, 1862, p. 247 ; id. 



Lland-list, iii. p. 108 (1871) ; Beich. Av. Syst. Nat., Natatores, pi. 15. 



figs. 771-2 (1850) ; Bp. Compt. Berid. xlii. p. 768 (1856) ; id. Consp. 



Av. ii. p. 192 (1855) ; Layard, Ibis, 1862, p. 97, 1863, p. 249 ; 



Lfutton, Lbis, 1865, p. 288, 1867, p. 189, 1872, p. 249; Coues, Pr. 



Ac. Phil. 1866, pp. 160, 172 ; Peh. Reise Novara, Zool. i. Vog. 



p. 147 (1869) ; Hutton, Cat. Birds N. Zeal. p. 48 (1871) ; Scl. ^ 



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



