30 A MANUAL OF THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



Adult male. General colour above sooty-black with brown edges ; interramal 

 space only more or less white ; bill with sides of the upper mandible and the 

 tubes blue, the culmen and unguis black, the lower edge of the lower mandible flesh 

 colour ; legs and feet black. Total length 510 mm. ; culmen 56, wing 388, tail 122, 

 tarsus 67. 



Adult female. Agrees in coloration and size. 

 Nestling. Unknown . 



Young. According to Hutton, identical in coloration. 



Nest. Breeds in holes made in the side of a slope, these holes being hollowed 

 out into a circular chamber at the end. 

 Egg. White. 



Breeding -season. December. 



Distribution and forms. Round the Sub-antarctic Circle. Four subspecies have 

 been discriminated by means of the white chin spot and size : P. a. cequinoctialis 

 Linne from the Cape Seas, probably breeding at the Falkland Islands or South 

 Georgia, with a very small chin spot ; P. a. mixta Mathews from eastern Cape Seas, 

 probably breeding at Kerguelen Island with a larger amount of white on chin and 

 sides of face ; wing average 374 mm. ; P. a. steadi Mathews, from New Zealand 

 seas, breeding on Antipodes and Auckland Islands with a minute white interramal 

 spot, average wing 385 mm. ; and P. a. brabournei Mathews, from west coast of 

 South America, breeding place unknown, a larger bird with a small white chin spot ; 

 average wing 399 mm. 



Procellaria conspicillata. SPECTACLED PETREL. 



Gould, Vol. VIL, pi. 46 (pt. xxxv.), Dec. 1st, 1848. Mathews. Vol. II., pt. 1, pi. 79, May 

 30th, 1912. 



Procellaria conspicillata Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIII., p. 363, May 1st, 1844 : 

 Australian Seas ? = Cape Seas. 



Procellaria larvata Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant, 12th year. No. 31. col. 971, June 1st, 

 1845 : Cape Seas. 



DISTRIBUTION. Australian Seas ? ? No authentic specimens known, though commonly 

 so recorded. 



Adult male. General colour above and below sooty, the feathers margined 

 with brown ; a band of white commences on the chin and extends backward along 

 the cheeks to the sides of the head, but is not joined on the occiput ; another band 

 extends from the chin, in front of the eyes, across the crown of the head. Nostrils 

 and sides of the mandibles yellowish -horn colour ; culmen, tips of both mandibles, 

 and a groove running along the lower mandible black ; feet black. Total length 

 476 mm. ; culmen (exp.) 53, wing 368, tail 105, tarsus 66. 



Adult female and Young. Unknown. 



Nest, Egg, and Breeding-season. Unknown. 



M3| Distribution and forms. Unknown. " Very abundant in the Atlantic and 

 Pacific Oceans." (Gould.) Nearly all skins available labelled "Australian seas," 

 and nearly all records referring to Atlantic Ocean only. In the Austral Avian Record, 

 Vol. II., p. 21, August 2, 1913, Iredale has recorded details of authentic Atlantic 

 specimen in Vienna Museum, but no further information on the subject has since 

 been received. 



20. Procellaria parkinsoni. BLACK PETREL. 



Mathews, Vol. II., pt. 1, pi. 80, May 30th, 1912. 



Procettaria parkinsoni Gray, Ibis, July 1862, p. 245 : New Zealand. 



DISTRIBUTION. Australia (visitor). One specimen preserved in Macleay Museum, Sydney. 



