440 



Mr. J. P. Ohapin on the Representatives of [Ibis, 



shorter than the measarements given by Godinaii * and 

 Hartert f. 



Oceanodroma furcata ((jriuelin). 



Frocellaria /areata Grm. ^y.st. Nat. i. pt. 2. 1789, p. 5G1 : 

 "Habitat in glacie maris, Aniericani et Asiani interfluentis." 



The Grey Fork-tailed Fctrel is found in the northern 

 Pacific Ocean south to California. It breeds on Copper 

 Island, in Behring Sea, Aleutian Islands, etc., and probably 

 on the Kurils +. In Japan, it has been obtained in summer 

 near Kobe, S. Hondo §, and in spring near the mouth of the 

 Abe Kiver, Prov. Suruga ||. A specimen was obtained in 

 ISagiimi Bay and reported by the late Mr. Ogawa H. 



I have an adult specimen which measures as follows : — 



Loc. 



Exposed 



Kiiroda'sj 



Coll. No. 



646. 



Siiruga jl5'5 nun. 

 Bay. 



Wi 



Tail. 



,„ Mid. toe Depth of 



■and claw. I tail-iork. 



lf)l 90 (lateral) 

 64o (central) 



27-5 



23 



XXV. — On the Representatives of Corythornis leucogaster 

 {Fraser) in the Cameroon and the Congo. By Jabies P. 

 Chapin, American ]\[useuni of Natural History. 



(Plate V.) 



When Professor Oscar Neumann ** called attention to the 

 differences of colour and dimensions that distinguish his 

 Upper Guinea race, Alcedo leucogaster bowdleri, from the 

 typical form of Fernando Po, he remarked also that the 



* Godnian, Monof^r. Petrels, i. p. 35. 

 t Hartert, I. c. p. 1416. 



X Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 218 ; Stejueger, I.e. xxi. p. 278; 

 Hartert, I. c. p. 1417. 

 § Havtert, t. c. p. 1417. 



II Ogawa, " Dobutsugaku Zasshi," xviii. 1906, p. 159. 

 ^ Opawa, Ainiot. Zool. .Japou. 1908, p. 339. 

 ** Bull. Brit. Orn. CI. xxiii. 1908, p. 14. 



