236 Messrs. G. M. Mathews and Tom Iredale : 



Genus PAOHYPTILA *. 

 Pachyptila Illiger, Prodromus, 1811, p. 274. 

 Type (by subsequent designation) : P. vittatus (Gmelin). 



Pachyptila vittatus vittatus (Gmelin). New Zealand Broad- 

 billed Prion. 

 Procellaria vittata Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1789, p. 560: New 

 Zealand. 



Syuonyms : — 



rroccllaria forsteri Latham, Index Ornith. vol. ii. 1790, p. 827 : 



uew name for P. vittata Gmelin. 

 Procellaria latirostris Eonnaterre, Tabl. Encycl. Method., Orn. 



vol. i. 1791, p. 81 : New Zealand. 

 Prion magnirostris Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 125 : Nevy 



Zealand. 

 Prion anstralis Potts, Ibis, 1873, p. 85: Foveaux Straits, South 



Island. 

 Prio7i vittattis BuUer, Suppl. vol. i. p. 123. 



Range : — New Zealand Seas: Chatham Islands (breeding); 

 Foveaux Straits (breeding) ; Dusky Sound, South Island 

 (breeding). 



Genus PSEUDOPRION. 



Pseudoprion Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1866, 

 p. 164. 



Type (by original designation): P. turtur (Kuhl). 



.Pseudoprion turtur huttoni Mathews. Dove-Petrel. 



Pseudoprion turtur huttoni Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. ii. 

 1912, p. 220 : Chatham Islands. 



Synonyms : — 



Prion desolatus Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 124. 



Prion hrevirostris Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 125. 



Prion ariel Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 126. [The type-locality of 

 Procellaria turtur Kuhl, Beitr. Zool. vergi. Anat. 1820, p. 143 

 is Bass' Straits, from which locality HalohcBna typica Bonaparte, 

 Consp, Gen. Av. vol. vi. Procell. p. 18, 1863, was also 

 described ; while Prion hreinrostris Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1855, p. 88, is supposed to have come from Madeira {cf. Mathews, 

 loc. cit.)'\ 



Range : — New Zealand Seas : Chatham Islands (breeding); 

 * Prion Lacepede, Tableau Oiseaux, 1799, p. 14, is indeterminable. 



