228 PROCELLAllIID^. 



No. 13.—" Dec. 23, 1768. Lat. 37° South. S. Parkinson " (ink MS.;. 



" The throat, breast, and belly white ; the remiges, rectrices, and beak 

 black ; on the webs marks of yellow, as marked out in the figure No. 6. 

 Procellaria cequorea " (pencil MS.). 



" Proc. aiquorea fusco cinerea subtus alba area supraoculari albida pedibus nigris, palma disco 



lutea. Mscr.* 

 "Fig. pict. 

 " Hab. in Oceano Americse australis " {Solander's MS.) . 



Upon this drawing Latham, in his ' Synopsis,' founded his " Frigate 

 Petrel," called afterwards by him Procellaria marina. Kuhl, though he cor- 

 rectly describes and figures a bird under Latham's title, ascribes this drawing 

 to "P. fregata, Banks," considering it to represent the young of the next 

 species. The so-called P. fregata, Banks, however, is the bird Solander 

 supposed to be P. fregata of Linnseus, as is clearly seen in his MS. notes. 

 The correctness of this identification is discussed under Drawing No. 14. 



These two sketches, Nos. 13 and 14, really represent two very different 

 birds ; and their fusion by Kuhl probably led Bonaparte to place P. marina, 

 Lath., as a synonym of P. fregata, Linn. In this identification he was 

 followed by Gray and, for a time, by Coues. 



The synonymy of the species will stand thus : — 



Pelagodroma marina. 



Procellaria teguorea, Solander, MS.; Parkinson, Icon. ined. No. 14. 

 Frigate Petrel, Lath. Syn. iii. p. 410. 



Procellaria marina, Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 826 ; Kuhl, Beitr. p. 137, t. 2. 

 Pelagodroma fregata (Linn.), Bp. Consp. ii. p. 198 (ncc Proc. fregata, L.). 

 Pelagodroma marina, Coues, Pr. Acad. Phil. 1866, p. 192. 



As regards the distribution of this species, its occurrence in the Atlantic 

 Ocean has not so frequently been recorded as its abundance in the seas of 

 Australia and New Zealand. But, as Procellaria hypoleuca of Webb and 



