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Pelecanoides urinatrix (Gmelin). 



In the preceding note under Pachyptila vittata vittata 

 I have given the reasons why Mathews and I have 

 rejected Prion Lacepede as indeterminable. As in the 

 same place we retained Pelecanoides Lacepede, a further 

 explanation seems necessary. 



As there noted, the Lacepedean generic names in the 

 Tableaux Oiseaux are accompanied by brief diagnoses 

 only ; in the case of Pelecanoides the generic name is 

 placed between Diomedea and Procellaria, and the 

 definition reads : " Une poche sous la gorge ; chaque 

 pied ne presentant que trois doigts." 



We decided that, as this description can be applied 

 to no other bird, the name can still be employed. 



It may be as well to record, however, that the two 

 authors noticed under PachyjJtila vittata as dealing with 

 " P. vittata et ccerulea Gm.," viz. Illiger and Lesson, 

 both regarded Lacepede' s name, Pelecanoides, as indeter- 

 minate, and each suggested a new generic name for the 

 group, Ilhger (p. 274) proposing Haladroma for Peleca- 

 noides Lacepede ?, and Lesson (p. 392) introducing Puffi- 

 nuria for Pelecanoides LaCepede and Haladroma Illiger, 

 explaining : " Ce qui nous a porte a changer le nom 

 generique de la seule espece connue qui sert de type 

 a ce genre est I'incertitude ou nous sommes que ce sort 

 reellement le genre pelecanoides de M. Lacepede, ou 

 haladroma d'llUger." 



Lesson's doubt was justified as he was handling a 

 different bird from Lacepede and lUiger, as Mathews 

 has shown (Birds Austr., Vol. IT., p. 232, 1912). 



In the same place (p. 238) Mathews concluded that 

 the specimens from New Zealand represented more than 

 one subspecies, but the specimens available did nob 

 permit their definition, and in the Ibis (1913, p. 238), 

 he and I again noted this fact. 



In the Reischek collection there are specimens from 

 the North Island and from the Snares, and these bore 

 different names, in Reischek's handwriting, as they were 



