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faithfully shown the longer nasal tubes and the inter- 

 vening space. I also noted that the nail seemed weaker, 

 and this also the artist has portrayed. 



The form " conspicillata " I would therefore recognise 

 as a distinct species, and until further specimens of the 

 Atlantic bird are received, would recognise that as 

 subspecifically distinct under Lesson's name of larvata. 

 The names to be used would read : — 



Procellaria cequinoctialis cequinoctialis Linne ; 



Far South Atlantic (? breeding at the Falkland 

 Islands). 

 P. a. mixta Mathews ; 



Cape seas (? breeding at the Crozets and 

 Kerguelen Island). 

 P. a. steadi Mathews ; 



New Zealand seas (breeding on Antipodes Island 

 and the Auckland Islands). 

 P. a. brabournei Mathews ; 



West Coast of South America (breeding-place 

 unknown) . 

 Procellaria conspicillata conspicillata Gould ; 



Australian seas (breeding-place unknown). 

 P. c. larvata Lesson ; 



South Atlantic (breeding-place unknown). 



In the Echo du Monde Savant, 12th year, No. 41, 

 col. 971, June 1st, 1845, Lesson described a conspicillate 

 bird from " les mers du Cap de Bonne Esperance," 

 and of course this name claims acceptance, though, as 

 far as I am aware, it has not hitherto been correctly 

 given. 



It is a somewhat interesting point to note that the 

 breeding-place of this bird is unknown, while some half- 

 dozen breeding places of P. mquinoctiolis are on record. 



Procellaria parkinsoni Gray. 



When Mathews, in the Birds of Australia, Vol. IV., 

 1912, p. 130, gave figures of the juvenile bill-characters 



