PKOCELLAKIID.E. 



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Family PEOCELLARIIDJE. 



Sub-Family PROCELLARII1SLE. 



Genus PROCELLARIA, Linn. 



Procellaria pelagica, Linn. 



Procellaria pelagica, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xcii. tig. 8 

 (1845-54) ; Baird, Brewer $ Ridgw. Water Birds -N. Am. ii. p. 403 

 (1884) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 438, pi 56 (1885) ; id. Eggs of 

 Brit. Birds, p. 74, pi. 20. fig. 4 (1896) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds B. M. 

 xxv. p. 343 (1896) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 120 (1899). 



Thalassidroma pelagica, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 55. fig. 3 (1855-63) ; 

 Hewitson, 'Eggs of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 517, pi. cxlv. fig. i (1856) ; 

 Dresser, Birds Eur. viii. p. 491 (1874). 



The eggs of the Stormy Petrel are usually truly elliptical, but in 

 some specimens one end is slightly pointed. They are without 

 gloss, white, and marked with a zone or cap of minute red dots at 

 one end. Occasionally the dots extend over the whole shell, and 

 sometimes they are entirely absent. They measure from 1 to 1*2 

 in length, and from *73 to *9 in breadth. 



51. Faroe Islands (H. C. Mutter). 



1 . Faroe Islands, 28th June (H. C. M. : 



Hargitt Coll.). 



7. Faroe Islands, 5th Aug. (H. C. M. : 

 Hargitt Coll.). 



4. Shetland Islands. 



2. Orkney Islands (Dunn). 



1. Orkney Islands. 



3. Orkney Islands. 



3. The Hebrides ( W. Proctor). 



2. Tory Islands, Donegal. 



5. Ireland. 



2. Little Skellig, S.W. Ireland, 

 17th May ( W. H. Turk). 



4. Blasket Islands, S.W. Ireland, 



26th ApriUJT. -ff. TV). 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohin Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Lord Enniskillen [P.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Genus HALOCYPTENA, Coues. 



Halocyptena microsoma, Coues. 

 (Plate XI. fig. 1.) 



Halocyptena microsoma, Baird, Brewer fy Ridgw. Water Birds JV. Am. 

 ii. p. 402 (1884); Salvin, Cat. Birds B. M. xxv. p. 346 (1896): 

 Sharpe, Hand-l i. p. 121 (1899). 



The eggs of the Wedge-tailed Petrel in the Collection are of an 

 elliptical or broad oval shape, white, with a very few minute rufous 



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