10 PROCELLARITD^, 



was unsuccessful. A bird referred by Dr. E. Coues to this 

 species, but originally described by Mr. G. N. Lawrence 

 (Ann. Lye. N. York, iv. p. 474), under the name of Procel- 

 laria meridionalis, was found floating, wounded, on a salt 

 lagoon on the eastern coast of Florida in the winter of 1846. 

 The following is the description, by Prof. Alfred Newton, 

 of the apparently adult bird whose capture in Norfolk has 

 procured for it a place in this volume : — " The whole of the 

 beak is black : from the crown of the head to the nape of 

 the neck the feathers are white at the base, broadly tipped 

 with dark brown, so as to present, except at the edges of 

 the patch, which is nearly circular, a uniform surface of the 

 latter colour ; in front and below the eye are a few greyish- 

 black feathers extending over the ear-coverts ; the orbits are 

 surrounded with a ring of sepia-brown feathers. The fore- 

 head, face, neck, breast, belly, sides, and under tail-coverts 

 are nearly pure white, but there are also a few dark feathers 

 on the flanks. The back and shoulders are covered with 

 brownish-grey and blackish-brown feathers, the former ap- 

 pearing to have been but lately assumed, but many of the 

 latter are ' sedgy ' and worn at the edges : all these feathers 

 are white at the base, but that colour does not show on 

 the surface. The rump and upper tail-coverts are white, 

 the feathers of the latter elongated. The tail is rounded, 

 and consists of twelve feathers, the outer pair white, edged 

 and broadly tipped with blackish-brown, the next four pair 

 are similarly coloured, but only slightly edged, the tips of 

 each pair being darker as they approach the middle ; the 

 shafts of the quills in all these are white ; the middle pair 

 of quills are brownish-black nearly all their length, their 

 basal being white, and have their shafts corresponding in 

 colour to their webs. The wing-coverts are blackish-brown, 

 bordered with a lighter shade of that colour, the borders of 

 the middle and lower coverts being so broad as to appear like 

 two light-coloured bars across the wing; the quill-feathers 

 are blackish-brown, with shafts of the same, the first quill- 

 feather being the longest ; the under surface of the wings, 

 as far as can be seen, is white. The naked parts of the 



