Qistrelata mollis and its Allies. 301 



Procellaria melanopus G. 11. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 64S, no. 5 

 (1841) (nee Gm. ? *) ; id. List Anseres Brit. Mus. p. 164 

 (1844;. 



Gookilaria mollis Bp. Consp, ii. p. 190 (1855) (syn. 

 emend.); Giglioli, Viag-io Magenta, pp. 108, 736, 800 (1875). 



Rhantistes mollis Bp. Coinpt. Rend. xlii. p. 786, no. 25 

 (1856). 



(Estrelata mollis Gould, Handb. B. x\.ustr. ii. p. 453 

 (1865) ; Coues, Pr. Ac. Philad. 1866, pp. 150, 170; Gigl. & 

 Salvad. Atti Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. xi. p. 457 (1868) ; iid. Ibis, 

 1869, p. 66 ; Gigl. Fauna Vert. Oceano, pp. 42, 82 (lat. 42° 

 47' S., long. 3° 26' E.— lat. 40° 42' S., long. 53° 20' E. ( 1870) ; 

 Ridgw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 63 (1887). 



Fulmurus (Gookilaria) rnullis G. R. Gray, Hand-list, iii. 

 p. 107, no. 10897 (1871). 



(Estrelata mollis Sharpe, Phil. Trans, clxvii. p. 128 (1877); 

 Eaton, ibid. ; Salvin, Ibis, 1877, p. 480 (critical) , id. P. Z. S. 

 1878, p. 738 (Nightingale I.) ; id. Voy. ' Chall.,' Zool. ii. 

 pt. viii. p. 144 (1881) ; ? Layatd, Ibis, 1882, pp. 539, 544 

 (New Caledonia, breeding) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard^s B. of 

 S. Afr. p. 7m (seas off the Cape) (1884) ; Buller, Hist. B. 

 of New Zeal. (2nd ed.) ii. p. 222 (1888) ; ? id. Tr & Pr. New 

 Zeal. Inst, xxiii. p. 41 (1891) (Sunday I , Kermadec Group?, 

 and Otago) ; Salvin, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxv. p. 406 (part.) 

 (1896) ; Sharpe, Hand-list Gen. & Spec, of B. i. p. 125, 

 no. 9 (partim : Southern Ocean) (1899) ; Hall, Ibis, 1900, 

 p 24 (Kerguelen I.). 



Pterodroma [(Estrelata) mollis Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. 

 S. W. ii. p. 202, no. 710 (Tab. List B. Austr. p. 26, no. 710) 

 (Tasmania?) (1878). 



* It is extremely doubtful whether the fuUowing references belong to 

 (E. mollis : 



Black-tued Petrel Lath. Syn. iii. 2, p. 408, no. 12 (North America) ; 

 Penn. Arct. Zool., Suppl. p. 73 ; Lath. Gen. Hist. x. p. 185. 



Procellaria melanopus (im. S. N. i. p. 562, no. 16 (1788) (ex Latham); 

 Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 824, no. 12 (1790); Bonn. Enc. M^th. i. p. 79, 

 no. 15 (1790) ; Vieill. N. D. xxv: p. 420 (1817). 



Puffnus? melanopus Steph. in Shaw, Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 1, p. 2.31 

 (1826). 



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