PRIONOP8. 



PROCELLARID.E. 



HeaJ, teeth, tad feet of Primtoitn. 



Head two-think of natural rise. 

 , lateral Ticw (external) of the teeth ; t, literal view (internal) ; r, front 

 rf, fan fool, corned with for ; , bind foot, fur removed : theae last 

 about ow-fourlh larftr than natural ilie. (UonBeld.) 



band* ; two broad lateral itriic, the narrow cervical atrise, the numerous 

 humeral and femoral spot*, and the seven caudal rings very deep 

 brown. (Bonfield.) 





JVIwoAM frorilu. (Hon., Jan.) 



Dr. Honfield discovered thi* animal in 1806, during the early period 

 of hi* reaarcb* in the district of BUmbangan, situated at the extre- 

 mity of Java ; the native* distinguish it by the name above given 

 Dr. HorsfteU wa* not able to ascertain that it ia found in any other 

 pert of the island, or that it has another name; but he state* that 

 even in BUmbangan it i* rarely m-t with. He notice* it as inhabiting 

 the extensive forseU which, with the exception of the capital of Banyu 

 waogi and a few amall villages, cover that district. He obtained but 

 IHUe information a* to iu habit* and manner*, and records nothing on 

 the nabjot beyond what we have mentioned. 



PRI'OXOPS. [LaXUDJL] 



ruiSTACANTHl'S, a grout of Fonil Placoid Fishes, from the 

 Oolite of Stoneifield. (AfaWl.) 



PRISTIDACTyLlS, the name aasigned by Messrs. Dumdril and 

 Bibron to a group of CnlodonU, being the second of their Lezards 

 ^aoertien* ou Autosaures. The Laoertians of this group are those 

 which have the toe* either dentilated laterally or carinated on their 

 uferior surface, or provided both with carinations below and dentila- 

 tions along their edge*. None of them have the temples covered with 

 date* or large scale*. In the greater part of the species the plates 

 irliich surround the nostrils are more or less convex, the palpebral 

 diso is nearly completely surrounded with a cordon of granules, and 

 the ventral lamella;, a* well as the preanal scales, are smaller and 

 more numerous than in the Leiodactylous Ctclodonts. 



The following genera are arranged by Messrs. Dumc'ril and Bibron 

 under this group : 



Ptammodromut, Fitz. (ffetophilit, Atpalit, WagL, Bonap., Wiegm. ; 

 Piammodromut, Wiegm.); Ophiopt, Mdnestries (Amytta, Wiegm.); 

 Calotaura, Dum. and Bibr.; Acanthodactylut, Fitz. (Podarcu, part, 

 Wagl.) ; Scapteira, Fitz. ; Ercmiat, Fitz. (Podarcu, part, WagL). 



P1USTIS. Three species of this genus of Fishes are mentioned as 

 fossil in the tertiary strata of England. (Morris's ' Catalogue.') 



PRIVET. [LlOUBTRUM.] 



PROBOSCI'DIANS. [PACHYDERMATA.] 



PROBOSCIS-MONKEY. [NASAUS.] 



PROCAPRA. [ANTILOPEJE.] 



PROCELLARID^E, a family of Oceanic Birds belonging to the order 

 Xatatora. They are well known to the seamen when far from land, 

 and with which his superstition was once more busy than it is now ; 

 but even at the present day they are not unfrequently regarded as 

 ominous, and many a hard-a-weatber old quarter-master still lookn 

 upon ' Mother Carey's Chickens ' as the harbingers of a storm. 



Though zoologists have differed as to the genera to be included in 

 this extraordinary group, they have been pretty well agreed as to the 

 forms which should be congregated in it. 



The genus ProceUaria of Linnteus was formed by that great zoologist 

 for the Petrels, and it is closely followed by his genus Dioinedea 

 (Albatrosses), between which and the Petrels there are many points of 

 resemblance both in their structure and their pelagic habits. [Dio- 

 MKDEIN.E ; LARID.B.] 



Prince Bonaparte ('Geographical and Comparative List," 1888 

 makes the ProceUarida the thirty-fourth family of the birds, and 

 places them between the Larida and the Colymlida;. It includes the 

 genera Diomedea, ProceUaria, Pvffiniu, and Thalauidroma. 



Mr. G. R. Gray ('List of the Genera of Birds,' 1840) makes the 

 Diomedeina: the first sub-family of the Larida. This sub-family com- 

 prehends the genera Pelecanoidei, Puffitau, Daption, Thalaisidroma, 

 \Vagellut, ProceUaria, Diomedta, and Prion. 



M. Temminck, in his ' Manuel' (2nd part, 1820), arranges all the 

 Petrels under the generic name Procdlaria, Linn., but divides them 

 into the following sections : 



1. Petrels properly so-called, P. glacialit. 



2. P. Pvffintu, P. Anyloiitm, and P. obtcura. 



3. Swallow like Petrels (Petrels Hirondellee), P. Pelagic* and P. 



Ltachii. 



In the 4th part of his ' Manuel' (1840), Temminck admits the genera 

 ProceUaria, Puffintu, and Thalattidroma. 



PeUcanoidtt (LadSpede), Ifaladroma of Illiger, PujKnaria of Lesson. 

 Bill enlarged, composed of many pieces soldered together, the edges 

 smooth and re-entering ; the upper demi-bill composed of two pieces, 

 furnished with feathers at the base up to the nostrils, which are very 

 open, forming an oval circle, the aperture of which is above, separated 

 one from the other by a simple internal partition ; this partition supports 

 a slight ledge which divides each nasal fossa in half ; the enlarged 

 portion of the upper demi-bill goes beyond the lower mandible, and 

 terminates at the contraction of the bill, which is narrow, convex, 

 very much curved, and very robust. The lower mandible is formed 

 equally of two soldered pieces ; that of the edge is narrow, inserted 

 in the upper deiui-bill; that below is formed by two branches, slightly 

 convex, separated outwards, where the space is filled by a very small 

 and rather indistinct naked skin ; the extremity of the mandible is 

 convex on the edges, concave below, and sharp. First and second 

 quills, which are the longest, equal; third and fourth rather 

 snorter. Tail small, nearly equal, pointed, formed of twelve feathers. 

 Tarsi moderate, weak, furnished with small areolated scutella ; three 

 anterior toes enveloped in an entire membrane; hind toe wanting. 

 (Leeson.) 



P. Urinatrir, the Blue Petrel. Size from the extremity of the bill 

 lo the tail, SJ inches. The plumage has no brilliancy; n blackish-brown 

 on the upper part of the back gland with a (light tiut of blue and a 

 luitrou* white on all the forepart* of the body, are the two colours 

 which it present*. Beneath the wings, a* well as on the sides, the 

 hue i* grayish-white. 



The head approach** a little that of the Pelagic Petrel ; the bill is 

 articulated and hooked like that of the Puffins, but differs from that 

 genus in the aperture of the nostrils, which is turned upwards in the 

 form of a heart on a playing card ; a partition separate* the two nasal 

 conduit*; the colour is black ; the palmated feet, which want the hind 

 toe, are of the aame colour, and are placed very near the tail, which is 

 intermediate between that of the Petrels and the Grebes. The eye, 



