REPORT ON THE ANATOMY OF THE PETRELS. 3 
List oF MatertAL EXAMINED. 
Name of Bird. of 
Remarks. 
OocraniTIDza— 
Oceanites oceanicus, 3 One from the Smithsonian Institution. 
Garrodia nereis, . 4 One from the Godeffroy Museum in Hamburg. 
The other three old specimens from the 
Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. 
Pelagodroma marina, . 1 
Fregetta grallaria, 2 One a skinned trunk. 
»  melanogastra, . 2 From the Godeffroy Museum. 
PROCELLARIIDA— 
Halocyptena microsoma, 1 (I must thank Mr. Salvin for his kindness in 
Procellaria pelagica, 
Cymochorea leucorrhoa, 
Bulweria columbina, 
a macgillivrayt, 
Gstrelata mollis, . 
allowing me to dissect his spirit-specimen 
of this extremely rare bird, previously only 
known from the type-specimen in the Smith- 
sonian Institution.) 
Prosector’s stores. 
Two, onea chick, from the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion. Three from Prosector’s stores. 
O. Salvin, Esq. 
Received from Canon Tristram (skinned trunk 
only). 
An ieee from the College of Surgeons. 
Hs lessont, 
a sp. ine., 
cr brevirostris, . All young (two from the Transit Expedition). 
Majaqueus cequinoctialis, 
Puffinus obscurus, 
»  brevicauda, 
Pagodroma nivea, 
Daption capensis, 
Aeipetes! antarcticus, 
Thalasseca glacialoides, 
Fulmarus glacialis, 
Ossifraga gigantea, 
Prion vittatus, 
» banks, 
Rep h ae DNF NNR NNWY WP W OHH Ee (tl oe 
One young. 
One from the Zoological Society’s Gardens. 
Zoological Society’s Gardens. 
One, a nestling, from the Transit Expedition. 
One from Celebes (O. Salvin, Esq.), one from 
the College of Surgeons. 
5, desolatus, . One a chick. 
Pelecanoides urinatrix, Two young. 
Diomedea brachyura, 
“n exulans, 
Thalassiarche culminata, 
Phebetria fuliginosa, A nestling. 
In all thirty-one species, represented by seventy-four specimens and belonging to twenty- 
two different genera. Besides the above, which only represent entire birds, there were a 
number of separate heads, which have been cleaned, and will be found enumerated below 
in the list of osteological material in this group examined by me. 
1 For the characters of this new genus, vide infra, p. 59. 
