446 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



The Majaqueus conspicillatus flies both in the Atlantic and 

 Pacific, but is most plentiful between the twenty-fifth and 

 fiftieth degrees of south latitude. I observed it to be very 

 abundant about the islands of St. Paul and Amsterdam, 

 and thence to Tasmania; I also noticed it in considerable 

 numbers off" the Falkland Islands in the Atlantic, and in the 

 neighbourhood of Tristan d'Acunha. 



Like the other members of the genus, it feeds upon mollusca, 

 the remains of dead cetacea, &c. 



The entire plumage sooty black, with the exception of the 

 chin, sides of the face, and a broad band which crosses the 

 forepart of the crown, passes down before and beneath, and 

 curves upward behind the eye, which is white ; nostrils and 

 sides of the mandibles yellowish horn-colour ; culmen, tips of 

 both mandibles, and a groove running along the lower man- 

 dible black ; feet black ; irides dark brown. 



Genus ADAMASTOR, Bonaparte. 



Bonaparte has classed several Petrels under the above 

 generic appellation, one of which has a claim to be considered 

 as pertaining to the avifauna of Australia, since I obtained 

 specimens dming my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney. 



Sp. 626. ADAMASTOR CINEREA. 



Great Grey Petrel. 



Procellaria cinerea, Grael. Edit. Linn. Syst. Nat., torn. i. p. 563. 

 Puffinus cinereus, Lawr. Birds of N. America, p. 835. 

 Procellaria hasitata, Forst. Desc. Anim. Ed. Licht., p. 208. 



adamastor, Schleg. Mon. Proc. Mus. Pay. Bas, p. 25. 



Adamastor typus, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., torn. ii. p. 187, Adamastor, 



sp. 1. 

 cinerea, Coues, Proc. Acad. Sci. Philad,, 1864, p. 119. 



Procellaria hasitata, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. vii. pi. 47. 

 This species enjoys so wide a range of habitat that it may 



