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Basal joint of middle toe greatly flattened, and not shorter than re- 
mainder of toe and claw 
Upper tail-coverts white 
Tail nearly even 
Jugulum sooty black; the middle of the breast and ab- 
domen more or less sooty black; sides white....... 
ER tay AA aOR en alee cea Fregetia melancgaster 
Jugulum dark gray; breast and abdomen white........ 
Mens Sore teanen SEV R yameCe cremetstar eee acarers Tee reTSOk F, grallaria 
Tail decidedly forked; lower parts white with a dark jugular 
Bair bee eres areas orca cy em eer Va ee OL F, albigularis 
Upper tail-coverts not white; lower parts dark..... F. mestissima 
Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl): Wutson’s PETREL 
Oceanites gracilis (Elliot): GRACEFUL PETREL 
Pealea lineata (Peale): PEALE’s PETREL 
CouEs—Oceanites lineata, I, 83, 91. 
Satvin—Pealea lineata, 
GopmMan—Pealea lineata, xxxvii, 57, pl. 16. 
Garrodia nereis (Gould): GRAY-BACKED PETREL 
Cours—Procellaria nereis, I, 81, 90. 
SaLvin—Garrodia nereis, 361. 
GopMaN—Garrodia nereis, xxxvii, 50, pl. 14. 
Pelagodroma marina (Latham): WHITE-FACED PETREL 
Fregetta melanogaster (Gould): BLACK-BELLIED PETREL 
Cours—Fregetta melanogastra, I, 87, 91. 
SALvin—C ymodroma melanogaster, 364. 
GopMAN—C ymodroma melanogaster, xxxvili, 59, pl. 17. 
In their monographs Mr. Salvin and Dr. Godman rank 
Thalassidroma tropica Gould as a synonym of Thalassidroma 
melanogaster Gould, ignoring the page priority of the former 
name. However, Dr. Godman states, on the authority of Dr. 
R. Bowdler Sharpe, that “the name of C. tropica carries a cer- 
tain amount of doubt with it.”* Obviously, melanogaster (a de- 
termined name) should not be superseded by tropica unless 
all reasonable doubt is removed from tropica.* 
1 Mon. Petrels, p 
2 Cf. Mathews, Binds Austr., v. 2, pp. 34, 35. 
