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No. 21.— "Feb. 1, 1769. Lat. 59°. S. Parkinson" (ink MS.). 



" Procellaria lugens. The bill entirely black ; the iris of the eye brown, 

 pupil black " (pencil MS.). 



No. 22.—" Feb. 3, 1769. Lat. 57° 30'. S. Parkinson" (ink MS.). 



" Procellaria lugens (sketch made by mistake). The beak black ; the 

 legs and that part of the foot next them dirty white, the remainder black " 

 (pencil MS.). 



" Proc. lugens fusco-cinerea gula crisso alisque subtus albis pedibus glaucis palma nigra basi 



pallida. Mscr.* 

 " Fig. pict. 

 " Hab. in Oceano Antarctico et Oceano Australi " {Solander's MS.) . 



Outlines in pencil, drawn in different attitudes. 



I am at present unable to attach this name with certainty to any known 

 species of Petrel. The colour of the bill and feet shows that it refers to an 

 QHstrelata. 



Kuhl, followed by Gray, thinks that it is the same as the bird called by 

 him P. grisea (not P.grisea, Gmel., which is a Pujjinus — but CEstrelata kidderi, 

 Coues, or, rather, G?. brevirostris (Less.), which is the proper name this 

 species should bear, as a recent examination of Lesson's type in the Paris 

 Museum has proved to me beyond a doubt), and the same as P. tristis, Forst., 

 and P. amaurosoma, Coues. The white throat, crissum, and under wing, 

 however, indicate another species. 



Bonaparte places the name doubtfully with P. atlantica, Gould ; but this 

 cannot be right. 



This name of P. lugens, then, had best be left in abeyance until such time 

 as a species answering Solander's description, given above, be procured. 



No. 23.—" Feb.15, 1769. Lat. 48° 27', long. 93°. S. Parkinson" (ink MS ) 

 "Nectris fuliginosa. The beak is fuscous, the lower mandible paler and 

 bluish; the feet of the same colour" (pencil MS.). 



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