450^ BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



Oceans, and no ship passes between our shores and the Cape 

 of Good Hope without meeting it. Very considerable con- 

 fusion exists in the writings of some of the older authors with 

 regard to this bird. It is the P. fuliginosa of Forster's Draw- 

 ings, No. 93 B, and the P . fuliginosa of Licli ten stein's edition 

 of Forster's MSS., p. 23, which term cannot be retained, as 

 it had already been applied by Latham to a very different bird 

 from Otaheite ; it is the P.grisea of Kuhl, but not of Linnaeus, 

 who has given the term to another species, consequentlyynse^ 

 must also be rejected ; and hence I have been induced to 

 give it a new appellation, and thereby prevent misapprehension 

 for the future. 



Male. — The whole of the plumage deep chocolate-black; 

 bill and feet jet-black. 



Total length 15 J inches ; bill If; wing 11 J; tail 5; tarsi 2f ; 

 middle toe and nail 2f . 



Sp. 629. PTERODROMA SOLANDRI, Gould. 



Solander's Petrel. 



Procellaria solandri, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part xii. p. 57. 

 Cookilaria solandri, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., torn. ii. p. 190, Cooki- 

 laria, sp. 3. 



Of this remarkably robust and compact bird I shot a single 

 individual in Bass's Straits on the 13th of March 1839, which 

 the late John Natterer, to whom I showed the specimen, 

 thought might possibly be identical with the bird figured in 

 Banks's drawings, and to which Dr. Solander has affixed the 

 term melanopus, an opinion in which I cannot concur ; I have 

 therefore named it in honour of that celebrated botanist. The 

 specimen described below may possibly not be fully adult, 

 as the dark colouring of the under surface only occupies the 

 extreme tips of the feathers, the basal portions of which are 

 snow-white. 



Head, back of the neck, shoulders, primaries, and tail dark 



