234 Messrs. G. :M. Matliews and Tom Tredalc : 



Synonym : — 



Oidreluia 7ti<jnpcnnis Jiullcr, Huppl. vol. i. p. 1 13. 



llange : — Kermadec Islands (breeding). 



Genus MACRONECTES. 

 Macrunectes- Richmond, Proc. Biol. Son. Wash. vol. xviii, 

 1906, p. 76. 

 Type (by original designation) : M. (jiy aniens (Gmelin). 



Macronectes giganteus albus (Potts). New Zealand Giant 

 Petrel. 

 Ossifraya alba Potts, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. vol. vi. 1871, 

 p. 152: oil' Centre Island, Foveaux Straits, South Island, 

 New Zealand. 



Synonym : — 



Ossifraya (/i(/antca IjuIIlt, Suppl. vol. i. p. 120 (part.). 



llange : — New Zealand Seas, Chatham Islands ('/breeding) ; 

 Antipodes Islands and (Jampbcll Islands (? bi'ceding). 



Macronectes giganteus wilsoni Mathews. Antarctic Giant 

 Petrel. 

 Macronecles (jic/anteus wilsoni Mathews, Birds Austr. 

 vol. ii. 1912, p. 189: Ross Sea, Antarctica, 



Synonym : — 



Ossifra(/a (jujantca liuller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 120 (part.). [The type- 

 locality of Procfllaria f/it/cmtca Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1789, 

 p. 5G.'5, is Staten Island oil' Cape Horn.] 



Range : — Antarctic Seas (?Macquarie Island, breeding). 



Note : — There is a i'orm of Macronecles giyanleus breeding 

 at the Macquarie Islands, and specimens from that locality 

 agree l)cttt'r with the Antarctic form than with the New 

 Zealand race, so that for the present we refer them to the 

 former. 



Genus DAITION. 



Daplion Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. vol. xiii. j)t. i. 

 1 826, p. 239. 

 Ty])c (by original designation) : J), capensc (Linne). 



