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voyage of the Magenta (6, p. 158). Macgillivray observed it in 

 the Southern Indian Ocean and the western part of the Bight in 

 June, 1919 {Emu, xix., p. 174). Mathews would not admit the 

 species to the Hst in the absence of authentic specimens collected 

 in Australian waters, but I think the above records are sufificient. 



Genus Priocella. 

 PrioceUa antarctica (Stephens). Silver-grey or Slender-l)illed Petrel 

 or Fulmar. 

 Gould states that he frequently saw this bird from the Cape 

 across the South Indian Ocean to New South Wales (i, p. 467). 

 I cannot find any more definite record, but Mathews does not 

 include this species in his list of those of which no Australian 

 specimens are known. Stephens's name of antarctica has pre- 

 cedence of 14 years over Smith's name, glacialoides , which has 

 commonly been used. Mathews has named the New Zealand form 

 P. ce. addenda, but it is not known whether Australian birds belong 

 to this race. 



Genus Pterodroma. 

 Sub-genus Pterodroma. 

 Pterodroma macroptera (Smith). Grey-faced, Great-winged, or 

 Long-winged Petrel or Fulmar. 



This species breeds on Rabbit Island, King George's Sound, 

 W.A., and is met with in the seas to the southward of Western 

 Australia {Emu, xix., p. 173). A specimen has been obtained in 

 South Australia {Emu, xviii., p. 62). Gould found it tolerably 

 abundant off the coast of Tasmania on 30th August, 1839 

 (i, p. 449), and a specimen was obtained by J. Macgillivray during 

 the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, in June, in lat. 4o|° S., long. 

 123° E. (4, p. 399). 



The type locality of the species is the Cape of Good Hope, and 

 Mathews separates the Western Australian form under the name 

 of P. m. alhani. The New Zealand form was named gouldi by 

 Hutton, and Mathews regards Gould's Tasmanian specimen as 

 belonging to this race. 

 Pterodroma inexpectata (J. R. Forster). Mottled Petrel or Fulmar. 



Mathews has recorded that a specimen of this species was 

 obtained at Circular Head, Tasmania, on 6th P'ebruary, 1890 

 {Austral Avian Record, ii., p. 125). The type locality of the species 

 is New Zealand, and the Australian bird is regarded by Mathews 

 as the type of a race which he has named P. i. thompsoni. 



Pterodroma melanopus (Gmelin). Brown-headed or Solander Petrel 

 or Fulmar. 

 A specimen was obtained by Gould in Bass Strait on 13th 

 March, 1839, and described by him as Procellaria solandri. 

 Mathews has shown that this bird was almost certainly the same 

 as that which Gmelin named Procellaria melanopus, which breeds 

 on Lord Howe Island, and formerly also bred on Norfolk Island 

 (7, p. 142). Loomis prefers Gould's name, as the type is in exist- 

 ence, whereas theie must always be some doubt as to the identity 



