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Okdbk ANSEKES.] 



[Fam. PROCELLARIID^ 





PEOCELLAEIA FULIGINOSA. 



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(SOOTY PETEEL.) 



Procellaria fuliginosa, Kuhl, Monogr. Procell. p. 142, pi. x. 

 Procellaria atlantica, Gould, Ann. N. H. xiii. p. 362 (1844). 

 Pterodroma fuUginosa, Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. 768 (1856). 

 Pterodroma atlantica, Bonap. Consp. Av. ii. p. 191 (1867). 

 ^strelata fuUginosa, Coues, Proc. Phil. Ac. 1866, p. 157. 

 Fulrmrus atlanticus. Gray, Hand-1. of B. iii. p. 107 (1871). 



■v 



6 (1820) 



fuliginoso-nigerj gutture 



Adult. 



brown 



parts. Irides, biU, and feet black. Total lengtli 17-5 inches; wing, from flexure, 12-5; tail 5; bill, 

 following the curvature of upper mandible 1-75, length of lower mandible 1-75 ; tarsus 1-5 ; middle toJ 

 and claw 2-4. 



This species, jvhich ranges over both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, inhabits the seas all 



If I was right in my identification of 



land 



Martin 



those observed on the wing during a passage from Auckland to Sydney in July 1871, this Petrel 

 is a remarkably powerful flier, coursing about with the activity 



the surface; but it is almost impossible to distinguish the various allied species with 

 certainty by merely observing them from the deck of a ship. 







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