30 A MANUAL OF THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA, 
Adult male-—General colour above sooty-black with brown edges ; interramal 
space only more or less white; bill with sides of the upper mandible and the 
tubes blue, the culmen and unguis black, the lower edge of the lower mandible flesh 
colour ; legs and feet black. Total length 510 mm.; culmen 56, wing 388, tail 122, 
tarsus 67. 
Adult female——Agrees in coloration and size. 
Nestling.—Unknown. 
Young.—According to Hutton, identical in coloration. 
Nest.—Breeds in holes made in the side of a slope, these holes being hollowed 
out into a circular chamber at the end. 
Egg.—White. 
Breeding-season.—December. 
Distribution and forms.—Round the Sub-antarctie Circle. Four subspecies have 
been discriminated by means of the white chin spot and size: P. a. equinoctialis 
Linné from the Cape Seas, probably breeding at the Falkland Islands or South 
Georgia, with a very small chin spot ; P. a. mixta Mathews from eastern Cape Seas, 
probably breeding at Kerguelen Island with a larger amount of white on chin and 
sides of face; wing average 374 mm.; P. a. steadi Mathews, from New Zealand 
seas, breeding on Antipodes and Auckland Islands with a minute white interramal 
spot, average wing 385 mm.; and P. a. brabournei Mathews, from west coast of 
South America, breeding place unknown, a larger bird with a small white chin spot ; 
average wing 399 mm. 
Procellaria conspicillataa—SPECTACLED PETREL. 
Gould, Vol. VII., pl. 46 (pt. xxxv.), Dec. Ist, 1848. Mathews, Vol. II., pt. 1, pl. 79, May 
30th, 1912. 
Procellaria conspicillata Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIII., p. 363, May Ist, 1844: 
Australian Seas ?=Cape Seas. 
Procellaria larvata Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant, 12th year, No. 31, col. 971, June Ist, 
1845: Cape Seas. 
DistriBuTIoN.—Australian Seas? ? No authentic specimens known, though commonly 
so recorded. 
Adult male.—General colour above and below sooty, the feathers margined 
with brown ; a band of white commences on the chin and extends backward along 
the cheeks to the sides of the head, but is not joined on the occiput ; another band 
extends from the chin, in front of the eyes, across the crown of the head. Nostrils 
and sides of the mandibles yellowish-horn colour ; culmen, tips of both mandibles, 
and a groove running along the lower mandible black; feet black. Total length 
476 mm. ; culmen (exp.) 53, wing 368, tail 105, tarsus 66. 
Adult female and Young—Unknown. 
Nest, Egg, and Breeding-season—Unknown. 
Distribution and forms—Unknown. “Very abundant in the Atlantic and 
Pacific Oceans.” (Gould.) Nearly all skins available labelled ‘Australian seas,” 
and nearly all records referring to Atlantic Ocean only. In the Austral Avian Record, 
Vol. II., p. 21, August 2, 1913, Iredale has recorded details of authentic Atlantic 
specimen in Vienna Museum, but no further information on the subject has since 
been received. 
20. Procellaria parkinsonii—BLACK PETREL. 
Mathews, Vol. II., pt. 1, pl. 80, May 30th, 1912. 
Procellaria parkinsoni Gray, Ibis, July 1862, p. 245: New Zealand. 
DistTRIBUTION.—Australia (visitor). One specimen preserved in Macleay Museum, Sydney. 
