PROCELLARIA TURTUR.— Forst. 



AvES. — Plate LIV.— Female. 



P. cinereocserulescens, subtus alba; regione ante oculos, superciliis, palpebrisque inferioribus albis ; 

 alarum tectricibus minoribus, scapulariuin apicibus, reinigium tectricibus primariis, remigium 

 quatuor pogoniis externis, caudeeque apice sordido-brunueo-rubris ; cauda versus basin cinerea. Eostrci 

 nigro-viride, niandibula superiore ad apicem flavo-brunnea, inferioro livido-alba. Pedibus brunneo- 

 rubris. Oculis nigro-brunneis. 



LoNGiTUDO ab apice rostri ad basin caudse 6 unc. 9 lin. ; caud;e 4 unc. 



Colour. — The upper surface of the head dull pearl-grey, the feathers to- 

 wards their points tinged with light brownish red, which is also the colour of 

 their shafts. The back and sides of neck, the interscapulars, back, rump, 

 upper tail coverts, scapulars, and the half collar on breast in front of wings 

 between clear blueish and pearl-grey. Spaces in front of eyes, eyebrows, 

 a stripe behind each eye, and the under parts of the neck and body clear 

 white ; the flanks and under tail-coverts pale lilac-purple. The lesser wing 

 coverts, the scapulars towards their points, the primary quill feathers, the 

 outer vanes of the four external quill feather, with their tips, and about the 

 last third of the eight middle feathers brownish red, deadened with grey; 

 the colour of the lesser wing coverts and scapulars of the two sides forms a dark 

 bar somewhat in the shape of the letter V upon the back when the wings are 

 folded. The secondary quill coverts, the primary quill feathers, save those 

 already described, the whole of the outermost feather on each side of the tail, 

 nearly all the second, and the first two-thirds of the rest dark ash-grey ; the 

 inner vanes of the four external quill feathers dull pearl grey, fading toward 

 the inner edges into white, which is also the colour of the edges of the inner 

 vanes of the other quill feathers. Behind each eye a narrow longitudinal 

 stripe of lilac-purple, and the feathers immediately under the lower eyelid, 

 which is white, and those in front of the eye are of the same colour, only a 

 shade lighter. The upper mandible towards the base livid blackish green, 

 the hooked portion, and the edge of the mandible dull yellowish brown ; the 

 tip of the lower mandible dull livid white, elsewhere coloured as the upper 



