262 Mr. W. Eagle Clarke on the 



the nostrils, culmen, and unguis are black ; the mandible 

 with apical plate and cutting-edge is black, the lower plate 

 is pea-green. The tarsus and toes are pinkish grey, darker 

 or blackish at the joints, the webs yellowish. In two of the 

 skins the feet are yellow. 



A considerable number of these " grey-bodied Petrels, skin 

 No. 9/' were seen in the immediate vicinity of the island. 



This species has not a place in VerrilPs list for Gough 

 Island, nor did it come under the notice of the ' Challenger ' 

 naturalists at Tristan da Cunha, but Carmichael (/. c. p. 497) 

 records it under the name of Procellaria cinerea for the group. 



11. Majaqueus yEQUiNocTiALis (Linn.). 



One specimen was obtained, skin "No. 20, Gough Island," 

 and similar "Black Petrels'" are recorded as having been 

 observed. In the example obtained the bill was yellowish, 

 with the basal part of the culminicorn, its margins contiguous 

 to the latericorn, and its tip black ; the distal plate and the 

 narrow median plate of the mandible black. 



This species does not appear to have been recorded 

 hitherto from any of the islands of the Tristan group. 



12. G^STRELATA MOLLIS (Gould). 



A great number of "Black-backed Petrels (skin No. 14) " 

 were observed off the island, and three examples which were 

 secured are in the collection. In these specimens the bill 

 was black, the tarsus and basal half of the inner toe and of 

 both webs were pinkish white, the rest of the foot was deep 

 brown. 



This species was not represented among the birds collected 

 at Gough Island by Mr. Comer and is not included in Verrill's 

 list ; but I think that it is probably the unknown species 

 there alluded to under the name of " Paddy unker," a " dark 

 bird with white breast and white feet," of which there is one 

 egg, measuring 2*37 x 1'64 inches, in Mr. Comer's collection 

 (Verrill, t. c. p. 449) . 



(E. mollis has been recorded from Nightingale Island of the 

 Tristan da Cunha group (Salvin, Voy. ' Challenger/ Zool. ii. 

 pt. viii. p. 144). 



