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is found throughout the Southern Ocean, generally between^ the 

 35th and 60th parallels ; it has been obtained at Madeira perhaps 

 accidentally. There is no example in the South African Museum, 

 but the British Museum possesses a specimen from the " Cape of 

 Good Hope," presented many years ago by Sir Andrew Smith. 

 This constitutes the sole South African record, so far as I am aware. 



Subfamily III. PELZCANOIDIN^E. 



Nostrils distinct ; opening upwards in either side of the middle 

 of the base of the culmen ; margin of the sternum even, the sternum 

 itself considerably longer than wide ; no ambiens muscle ; no 

 hallux ; second primary slightly the longest. 



Genus I. PELICANOIDES. 



Type. 

 Pelicanoides, Lacepede, Mem. I' List, iii, p. 513 (1801) P. urinatrix. 



Bill short and stumpy, about half the length of the head ; nostrils 

 opening upwards on either side of the base of the culmen by two 

 distinct orifices ; wings short, the second primary slightly the 

 longest; tail short and nearly square of twelve feathers; tarsus 

 short and slightly ridged in front, covered with small hexagonal 

 scales ; no trace of a hind toe. 



Three closely allied species of Diving Petrel are assigned to this 

 genus, which ranges throughout the Southern Ocean ; one of them 

 appears to occur occasionally in the Cape Seas. 



802. Pelicanoides exul. Diving Petrel. 



Pelicanoides urinatrix (nee Gmel.} Green, Ocean Birds, p. 36 (1887). 

 Halodronia exul, Cab. & Beich., Journ. Ornitli. 1876, p. 328. 

 Telicanoides exul, Sa-lvin, Cat. B. M. xxv, p. 438 (1896); Shelley, B. 

 Afr. i, p. 168 (1896). 



Description. Adult. General colour above shining black, most 

 of the feathers with greyish bases, this colour extending throughout 

 the inner webs of some of the scapulars ; below white, the sides of 

 the neck and a band across the chest mottled with grey, due to a 

 subterminal bar of that colour on most of the feathers ; flanks and 



