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17. Proc. cinerea^ p. 563. A stumbling block, concerning which authors are 

 greatly at variance. Usually employed by European authors as the name of 

 the species I describe OiS Puffinus KuhlHQoiQ ; and applied by American writers 

 to /*. major Fab. By Bonaparte identified with his Adamastor ti/pus ( = Aw.f/- 

 tata Forst. Gould, Reich, nee Kuhl, Temm. = Adamastor cinereux of my paper,) 

 in which opinion I entirely concur. According to Mr. Gray, the genus Frio- 

 Jinus Homb. et Jacq. is based upon this same bird, and antedates Adamasior of 

 Bonaparte. The proper name of the species in question would then be J'rio- 

 Jinus cinereus. 



18. Proc. gigantea^ p. 563, = Ossifraga gigantea Reich. 



19. Proc. brasiliana p. 564. Very dubious. May be the same as the pre- 

 ceding species ; or the Graculus brasilianus, as identified by Bonaparte. 



4. Proc. sequinoctialis, p. 564, and var. B., = Majaqueus irquinoctiulis Reich. 



20. Proc. grisea, p. 564. Unidentifiable. 



21. Proc. gelida, p. 564. I think that this name was based upon the species 

 subsequently named flaviroslris b}' Mr. Gould, the proper name of which ap- 

 pears to be Priofinus gelidu.^. 



22. Proc. alba, p. 565. Evidently a species o( ^Estrehita, and probably some 

 one of the plumages of ^L\ Lessoni. 



Latham, Index Ornithologicus, ii. (1790.) 



Of Dr. Latham's three principal works this is the one usually referred to, 

 as being the only one in which Latin binomial names are used. Most of the 

 species given in this work have exactly the same import as those of Gmelin, 

 and need not therefore be noticed. The following are the chief points re- 

 quiring attention : — 



6. 7V&C. (//6</, var. B., p. 822. — " Norfolk Island Petrel." A species subse- 

 quently named J^roc. Phillippi by Gray, with which P. mollis Gould is consid- 

 ered as probably synonymous. 



18. Proc. marina, p. 826.— iFirst definite characterization of the type of the 

 genus Pelagodroma {Pel. fregata Bp. Pel. marina, Reich.) 



21. Proc. For.iteri, p. 827, ^= Proc. vittata Gm. 



23. I'roc. pacijica p. 827. Same as that of Gmelin. The name is unidenti- 

 fiable, unless we regard it as expressive of a valid species. By Mr. Gray it is 

 so considered (Cat. Birds Pac. Isl.) and the following cited as synonymous : 

 Nectrin fuligino.mn (Sol.) Banks, ic. 23. — Proc.fuliginosa Kuhl, sp. 27 ; (hni not 

 Kuhl's sp. 12 !) Puff, jyacijicus Gray, Gen. Birds, p. 647. It is a large Puffi/nt.s, 

 22 inches long, with fiesh-colored bill and feet ; from Euopoa. 



24. Proc. obacura, p. 828, = that of Gmelin. By Mr. Gray this name is con- 

 sidered the same as that of Vieillot, (Nouv. Diet. xxv. p. 423, and Gal. Ois'. 

 tab. 301 ;) and is made to include the Australian form (figured by Mr. Gould, 

 pi. 59 of the B. Aust. and named by him as.simili.'^,) which is considered dis- 

 tinct by the majority cf writers. 



Vieillot, A'ouv. Diet. d'Hiit. Kat. xxv. (1817.) 



The article " Petrel " of this work is in general a close copy of Gmelin and 

 Latham. Certain points, however, may be noticed. 

 Proc. pelagica, \). 416. Mentions under this head the "Petrel 6chasse " of 



Temrainck. 

 Proc. grallaria, Vieill. p. 418. First name of the species subsequently named 

 leucoga.tler by Gould; unless as is possibly the case fregata oi Linnaeils 

 be this si)ecies rather than the Pelagodroma marina. 

 Proc.fuhgino.^a, p. 418. Latham's Utaheite species, whatever that may be. 



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