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as 40). My family Oceanitidae, in fact, corresponds to Bonaparte's sec- 

 tion ' Unguibus depressis' of his Procellarieae, and to Coues's 'second 

 group' of the similarly-named section in his 'Review' with the addition, 

 in each case, of Garrodia, included by both authors in the restricted 

 genus Procellaria." (W. A. Forbes, P. Z. S. 1881, pp. 735-737.) 



" Nests under tufts of grass, or other low herbage, near the sea. Some- 

 times it digs a small burrow ; oftener the eggs are found simply covered 

 by overhanging grass-stems, in low land. The egg is single, compact in 

 structure, smooth, and very fragile, ellipsoidal in form, and white, except- 

 ing at the larger end, which is marked by a collection of small reddish 

 spots, interspersed with a few specks of very dark brown. If we are 

 correct in our impression that the markings about the butts of these eggs 

 are not adventitions, we have here an exception to the general rule that 

 the Procellariidae lay white eggs. In size, shape, and coloration, the egg 

 recalls some of the least-spotted examples of that of the common Meadow 

 Lark (Sturnella magnet] . By aid of the lens are to be seen a few pore- 

 like punctations, widely scattered. 



" We have no information concerning the young of this species, none 

 having been hatched at the time of breaking up the American Station 

 (January 1 1). 



(Natural History of Kerguelen Island, J. H. Kidder, M.D., Bull. no. 

 3, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 16, 1876.) 



Genus FREGETTA Bonaparte. 



Type. 



Fregetta, Bonap. Compt. Rend. XLI. p. 1113 (1855); 



id. Consp. Av. ii. p. 197 (1856); (nee Fregata, 



Briss, Cuv, etc.) ; Coues, Proc. Acad. Sci. Philad. 



1864, p. 85 ; Forbes, Voy. Chall. Zool. IV. Pt. XI. 



p. 56, etc. (1882) ; Coues, Auk, XIV. 1897, p. 315 ; 



Auk (Ninth Sup.), XVI. 1899, p. 102; Sharpe, 



Hand-List Bds. I. p. 122(1899) F- melanogaster. 



Cymodroma, Ridgw. in Baird, Brewer & Ridgw. Water 



Birds N. Am. ii. p. 418 (1884); id. Man. N. 



Am. Birds, p. 71 (1887); id. 2d ed. p. 71, pi. xv. 



fig. 3 (1896); Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXV. 



p. 364 (1896) F. melanogaster. 



