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these birds during my passages to and from Australia, my 
researches were rewarded by my obtaining a knowledge of 
nearly forty different species, most of which are peculiar to 
the southern hemisphere, and many of them frequenters of 
the Australian seas.” In the Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society of London, parts for 1840, 1843, and 1844, he de- 
scribed two albatrosses and four petrels. In 1844 he pub- 
lished in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History an 
article On the Family Procellaride, with descriptions of Ten 
new Species. Only two of the alleged new species were really 
new. The descriptions of three other species, however, ante- 
date descriptions that appeared in the Proceedings of the 
Zoological Society for 1844. Life histories are given in his 
illustrated folio Birds of Australia (Vol. VII) and in the 
Handbook before mentioned. 
George Robert Gray, long in charge of the bird collection 
of the British Museum, described four of the species recog- 
nized in the present paper, a description appearing in each of 
the following publications: Dieffenbach’s Travels in New 
Zealand, Volume II, 1843; Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society of London for 1853; Catalogue of the Birds of the 
Tropical Islands of the Pacific Ocean, 1859; The Ibis for 
July, 1862. Furthermore, Gray devoted five pages of the 
third volume of his sumptuously illustrated Genera of Birds 
to a review of the group. 
In 1848 appeared Volume VIII of the United States Ex- 
ploring Expedition - - - Mammalogy and Ornithology by 
Titian Ramsey Peale, a naturalist of the expedition. Five 
petrels were described as new; one of them, however, had 
been described previously by J. R. Forster. 
In his Avium Systema Naturale (1852), Dr. Heinrich 
Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach instituted a number of genera, 
five of which are adopted in the present review. 
Prince Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, at the 
close of his long career as an ornithologist, presented a classi- 
fication of the group in Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des 
Séances de lAcadénue des Sciences [Paris], Tome XLII, 
1856, and in Conspectus Generum Avium, Tomus II, 1857. 
Five of the generic names proposed by him are used in the 
present connection. 
