?e 



13. PKioN. 43a 



3. 312 (1873) ; id. op. cit. ed. 2, ii. p. 212 (1888) ; Finsch, J.f. Orn. 



l870, p. 373, 1874, p. 211 ; Gitjl. Faun. Vert. Oceano, p. 44 (1870) ; 



id. Viagg. ^Magenta,' p. 963 (1875) ; Hartl. Vog. Madag. p. 376 



(1877) ; Sharpe, Phil. Trans, clxviii. p. 135 (1879) ; id. Layard's 



Birds S. Afr. p. 769 (1884) ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 631 (1882) ; 



M.-Edw. %• Grandid. Hist. Madag., Ois. p. 671, pis. 293, 294 



(1885) ; Hamilton, Tr. N. Zeal. Inst, xviii. p. 128 (1886) ; H. O. 



Forbes, Ibis, 1893, p. 542 ; Sol. Ibis, 1894, p. 498. 

 Pachyptila vittata, Illig. Prodr. p. 275 (1811) ; Temm. PI. Col. 528 ; 



Schinz, Naturg. Vog. p. 402, pi. 136 (1832) ; Burm. Syst. Ueb. Th. 



Bras, iii.p. 444 (1856) ; Cab. ^- Reichenow, J.f. Orn. 1876, p. 328. 

 Procellaria latirostris, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 81 (1823). 

 Paclivptila forsteri, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 251 (1826) ; 



Jard. Sf Sell. III. Orn. pi. 47 (1828) : Swains. Class. Birds, ii. p. 374 



(1837). 

 Prion forsteri, Reich. Av. Syst. Nat., Natatores, pi. 15. fig. 777 



(1850) (?) ; Bp. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 768 (1856j. 

 Prion magnii-ostris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 125. 

 Prion australis. Potts, Tratis. N. Zeal. Inst. v. p. 205 ; id. Ibv^, 1878, 



p. 85. 



Adult male. Upper surface ashy-blue, darker on the head and 

 below the eye; small wing-coverts, ends of the long scapulars 

 (except their white tips), a band across the back, outer primaries 

 and tips of the central rectrices black ; lateral rectrices grey with 

 dark shafts ; a distinct superciliary stripe and whole under surface 

 white, flanks washed with pale ashy-blue, under wing-coverts and 

 axiUaries white ; under tail-coverts mottled with ashy-blue : bill 

 blue-black, the unguis yeUow ; tarsi and toes light blue. Total 

 length about 12 inches, wing 7"6 ; tail, central rectrices 3-8, lateral 

 rectrices 3-5 ; bill 1-5, width of bill 0-72-0-8, tarsus 1*3, middle 

 and outer toes 1*45, inner toe 1'25. 



Hah. Southern Seas between lat. 40° and 60° S. 



Obs. This species has the widest bill of all the Prions, and the 

 lamellae of the maxilla show plainly when the bill is closed. 



4 



cJ ad. sk. Marion I., Southern Ocean. Voy. H.M.S. ' Chal- 

 lenger.' 



ib. 5 ad. sk. Ar sea near Crozette Is. {Lord Voy. H.M.S. ' Chal- 



Campbell) . lenger.' 



"'"e. cJad.sk. St. Paiil's I., Indian Ocean, Jan. Voy. H.M.S. 'Rattle- 

 1853 {J. Macgillivray). snake.' 



d. cJad.sk. Eastern entrance to Bass's Strait, Voy. H.M.S. 'Rattle- 



Julv 1 1 , 1 847 (J! Macgillivray). snake. ' 



e. Ad. St. New Zealand. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 

 '/. Ad. sk. New Zealand. Colonial Mus. 



g. S ad. sk. Stewart's 1., New Zealand, Mar. Hume Coll. 



1874 {F. W. Hutton). 



h. Ad. sk. New Zealand. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 



i. Ad. sk. New Zealand, Sept. 2, 1846. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



j,^. Ad. sk. New Zealand. Salvin-Godman CoU. 



/. Ad. sk. [New Zealand.] Gould Coll. (Type of 



P. magnirostris, Gould.) 

 m. Skull. 



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