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Genus PROCELLARIA. 



Procellaria Liiiue, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 131. 

 Type (by subsequent designation) : P. cequinociialis Linne. 



Procellaria aequinoctialis steadi ]\Iathews. New Zealand 

 White-chinned Petrel. 

 Procellaria cequinoctialis steadi jMathews, Birds Austr. 

 vol. ii. 1912, p. 114 : Antipodes Island. 



Synonym : — 



Majaqueus cBquinoctialis Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 109. [The type- 

 locality of Procellai'ia cequinoctalis Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 

 1758, p. 132, is Cape Seas.] 



Range: — Antipodes and Auckland Islands (breeding). 



Procellaria parkinsoni Gray. Black Petrel. 



Procellaria parkinsoni Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 245 : New 

 Zealand. 



Synonym : — 



Majaqueus parkinsoni Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 109. 



Range : — New Zealand (breeding), both islands. 



Genus PRIOFINUS. 



Priofinus Hombron & Jacquinot, Comptes Reudus Sci. 

 Paris, vol. xviii. 1844, p. 355. 



Type (by monotypy) : P. cinereus (Gmelin). 



Priofinus cinereus (Gmelin). Grey Petrel. 



Procellaria cinerea Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1789, p. 563 : New 

 Zealand Seas (lat. 48° S.). 



Synonyms : — 



Procellaria gelida Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1789, p. 546 : same locality. 

 Procellaria melanura Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encycl. Method., Ornith. 



vol. i. 1790, p. 79 : same locality. 

 Procellaria hcesitata Forster, Deser. Anim. ed. Licht. 1844, p. 208 : 



same locality. 

 Adamastor typus Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av. vol. ii. 1857, p. 187 : 

 new name for preceding. 



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