114 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



[Sp/toiisciis iiiagc/Zaniciis), which, after standing erect and staring at us 

 in a stupid manner for a few moments, shuffled off; their Httle wings 

 hanging limp at their sides, and their dark gray and white colouring, and 

 reeling movements, suggesting a drunk and disorderly funeral procession. 

 When hard pressed they abandoned the erect position, and crouching 

 down on all fours, if I may be permitted the expression, ran along like 

 rabbits at a very rapid rate, using their wings as fore-legs, till they gained 

 their burrows, fairly ensconed in which they faced their pursuers, and,* 

 slowly turning about their heads from side to side, barked and brayed in 

 the most ridiculous manner, offering a stout resistance to being captured 

 by biting most viciously with their strong bills. While contemplating 

 one individual in its den, I was suddenly startled by a loud ' Ho-ho-ho- 

 ho-ho ' close to me, and turning round perceived another bird, which had 

 boldly walked out of a neighboring burrow, and was thus addressing me." 

 (Cunn. Nat. Hist. Str. Magell., 1871, pp. 270-271.) 



Order PROCELLARIIFORMES. 



Sharpe, Classif Birds, p. 71 (1891); id. Hand-List Bds. I. p. 120 (1899); 

 Pycraft, P. Z. S. 1899, pp. 381-411, pis. xxii. and xxiii. (Osteology). 



Family Procellariid^. 



Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXV. p. 342 (1896); Sharpe, Hand-List 

 Bds. p. 120 (1899). 



Subfamily Oceanitin/E. 

 Salvin, t. c. p. 358 (1896); Sharpe, t. c. p. 122 (1899). 



Genus OCEANITES Keyserling & Blasius. 



Oceanifes, Keyserling & Blasius, Wirb. Eur. ii. pp. xciii. 

 131, 238 (1840) ; Coues, Proc. Acad. Sci. Philad. 1864, 



Type. 



