PROCELLAIIUD^E MAJAQUEUS 475 



or less rounded in front ; hind toe small, claw sharp ; plumage 

 sooty-black. 



The species of this genus, two in number, are confined to the 

 Southern Ocean. 



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790. Majaqueus sequinoctialis. Cape Hen. 



Procellaria aequinoctialis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 213 (1766); Grill, K. 

 Vet. Akad. Ha mil. ii, no. 10, p. 59 (1858); Laijanl, Ibis, 1862, p. 97, 

 1863, p. 249, 1867, p. 459 ; id. B. S. Afr. p. 360 (1867) ; Reichenow, 

 Voy. Afr. i, p. 24 (1900) ; Vanliiitf'rn, Joitrn. OrnitJi. 1901, p. 307. 



Procellaria conspicillata, Gould, B. Austr. vii, pi. 46 (1848). 



Majaqueus tequiiioctialis, Swinburne, Proc. R. Pliys. Soc. Edin.ix,p. 

 198 (1886); SJtarpe, cd. La yard s 13. S. Afr. p. 766 (1884); Salvin, 

 Cat. B. M. xxv, p. 395 (1896) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 167 (1896) ; 

 Xliwtridf/e, Ibis, 1904, p. '203. 



"Black Haglet," " Black Night Hawk," " Stinkpot," and " Stinker," 

 of Sealers and Whalers. 



FIG. 147.- Head of Maj<inciis ccquinoctialis, x : 



ion. Adult, General colour throughout sooty-black, 

 slightly paler and browner below, in the middle of the back, and 

 on the wing-coverts ; a patch of white on the chin reaching usually 

 to below the eye ; basal halves of the -shafts of the primaries white. 

 Iris hazel ; bill greenish-horn, the tip of the mandible, the 

 membrane dividing the various portions of the sheath of the bill 

 and the flat space on the culmen in front of the nostrils black ; 

 legs and feet black, sometimes with a pinkish or yellowish tinge 

 on the webs. 



