232 niOCELLARIID.^. 



An outline in pencil, with the bill carefully coloured. 



This drawing is referred by Gray to a New-Zealand species, called by 

 him Procellaria parkinsoni (Ibis, 1862, p. 245) (^Fidmarus parkinsoni, Hand-1. 

 iii. p. 108). But as Gray's description expressly states (and correctly so) 

 that the New-Zealand bird he described was whole-coloured, Solander's bird 

 (having the chin white) belongs more probably to Procellaria aquinoctialis 

 (^Majaqucus (jequinoctiaUs). 



Kuhl fits Solander's name to a specimen in the British Museum (no 

 longer to be traced) ; but his description says of the bill, " rostro compresso, 

 nigro," which is at variance with Solander's character. Kuhl's bird is 

 doubtless an (Eslrelata, and is the bird usually known as CE. fuUginosa 

 (Kuhl). This much-abused specific name, the various applications of which 

 in this family of birds are hard indeed to trace, and harder still to remember, 

 seems, then, in this case to become a synonym of the long-known Majaqueus 

 aquinoctiaUs, and to stand thus : — 



Majaqueus aquinoctialis. 



Procellaria cequinoctialis , Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 213. 



Procellaria fuUc/inosa (nee Latli., nee Kuhl, nee Forst., nee A. Strickland!), Solander, MS. ; 

 Parkinson, leon. ined. No. 19. 



No. 20.—" Dec. 23, 1768. S. Parkinson" (ink MS.). 



" Procellaria sandaliata, No. 4. Mem. The head is black ; the legs and 

 upper part of the feet pallid white, where marked off pallid brown ; the claws 

 black ; the under part of the whole bird is white " (pencil MS.). 



" Proc. sandaliata, corpore supra fiiseo-nigricante subtus albo collo einereo Cauda rotundata utrinque 



nigricaute pedibus albidis palma antice nigra. Mscr.* 

 " Fig. pict. 

 " Hab. in Oceano AmericDe australis " [Solnnder'.<! MS.). 



