No. 4.] THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD 73 



39 : wing 375 : tail 155 : tarsus 52. Collected at Broken 

 Bay, New South Wales, on the 3rd. of December, 1913. 



This is the first authentic published record of Coprotheres 

 in Australian waters. 



This bird is larger than the male figured by me in nry 

 " Birds of Australia." which came from Alaska. 



Stercorarius parasiticus visitori. 



Female. General colour above smoke-brown with a hoary 

 tinge ; the feathers at the base of the forehead whitish and 

 those on the fore part of the head with pale edges, hinder 

 crown and nape uniform brown somewhat darker than the 

 back ; the feathers on the hind neck grey at the base and 

 fringed with isabelline at the tips ; the feathers on the mantle 

 margined with pale umber as also are some of the short 

 scapulars but rather darker ; marginal upper wing-coverts 

 fringed with whitish or isabelline ; inner webs of the primary 

 and secondary quills white on the basal portion, the shafts 

 of the primaries flattened in structure and conspicuously 

 white in colour but becoming dark at the extreme tips ; upper 

 tail-coverts white, more or less tinged with isabelline, banded 

 and very slightly tipped with brown ; tail white at the base — 

 the white decreasing in extent on the outer feathers — and 

 brown at the tip, somewhat darker on the two central feathers 

 which are extended beyond the lateral ones and pointed in 

 shape ; fore part of face including the eye smoke-brown ; 

 chin dull white ; the feathers of the throat and sides of the 

 hinder face white at the base with a pear-shaped mark of 

 brown at the tips ; fore-neck and sides of the upper breast 

 almost uniform brown ; remainder of the under surface white 

 barred and fringed at the tips of the feathers with brown 

 narrowly on the middle of the breast and sides of the abdomen, 

 and broadly on the sides of the body, flanks and under tail- 

 coverts ; axillaries also broadly banded and more or less 

 isabelline as well as white ; under wing-coverts isabelline 

 irregularly marked brown or ash-brown, some of the feathers 

 on the margin of the wing are only fringed with white ; quill 



