PROCELLARID.E. 861 



670. Procellaria Glacialoides, Smith, zooi. s. 



Af., PL 57 ; Forst. Icon. Ined., t. 91 ; Pro. Tenuiros- 



tris, Audub. 



ABOVE, cinereous; below white; head and back of neck 

 white, tinged with cinereous-yellow ; the coverts of the prima- 

 ries, and the primaries and secondaries, outward, ruddy-brown, 

 with the two last white ; tail pale-cinereous ; the sides of the 

 body tinged with bluish-grey ; bill above, purplish-blue ; 

 below, livid flesh-colour ; top of mandible, livid-black ; feet 

 livid-grey. Length, 18" 9'" ; wing, 12" 4'" ; tail, 5" 3"'. 

 South African Coast. Dr. A. Smith (loc. cit.) ; non vidi. 



671. Procellaria Capensis, Lina ; PL Eni., 964; 



Cape Pigeon; Daption Capensis. 



UPPER parts, mottled black and white; under parts, pure 

 white ; head black ; chin speckled. Length, 15"; wing, 

 10J"; tail, 4" 9"'. 



This bird, though common enough along the coast, rarely enters our 

 harbours, preferring the open sea for its hunting-field. At one season 

 of the year, about November and December, they disappear, and the 

 voyager finds the sea duller and tamer than ever. I presume they go 

 off' to breed ; but where they select their nurseries I know not. 



On a recent voyage to England, I left the Cape at the end of 

 March : not a single Daption was visible throughout our trip ; nor 

 indeed, after we left the land, until off Ushant, did we see more than 

 half-a-dozen birds in all (1866). On my return in November, we 

 fell in with one three degrees novtli of the Line ! ! I have never before 

 heard of this species extending beyond the Equator. 



672. Procellaria Turtur, Forst., A. Smith's in. 



S. Af. ZooL, PI. 54. 



ABOVE, blueish ash- coloured ; beneath white ; space before 

 the eye, eyebrow, and lower eyelids, white; lesser wing- 

 coverts, tips of the scapulars, webs of the primaries, the 

 outer vanes of the four external quill- feathers, and the tip of 

 the tail, dull reddish-brown ; base of tail cinereous ; bill 

 greenish black ; upper mandible at the point, yellow-brown ; 

 lower mandible livid ; feet reddish-brown ; eyes black-brown. 

 Length, 10" 9'"; wing, 7" 6"'; tail, 4". 

 Eesembles in its habits P. Fosteri, and inhabits the Cape seas: 



673. Procellaria Coerulea, Gmel. ; Procellaria 

 Forsteri, Smith, Zool. S. Af, PI. 53. 



UPPER parts, darkish pearl-grey ; under parts white ; scapu- 

 lars grey, darkened by a distinct tint of broccoli-brown ; 

 several of them finely tipped with white ; tail pearl-grey, the 



