PROCBLLAEIID^ MAJAQUEUS 475 



or less rounded in front ; hind toe small, claw sharp ; plumage 

 sooty-black. 



The species of this genus, two in number, are confined to the 

 Southern Ocean. 



790. Majaqueus sequinoctialis. Gape Hen. 



Procellaria iBquinootialis, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, p. 213 (1766) ; Grill, K. 

 Vet. ATiod. Handl. ii, no. 10, p. 59 (1858) ; Laijard, Ibis, 1862, p. 97, 

 1863, p. 249, 1867, p. 459 ; id. B. 8. Afr. p. 860 (1867) ; Beichenow, 

 Voff. Afr. i, p. 24 (1900) ; Vanhbfen, Journ. Ornith. 1901, p. 307. 



Procellaria conspioiUata, Gould, B. Austr. vii, pi. 46 (1848). 



Majaqueus aequinoctialis, Swinburne, Proc. B. Phys. Soc. Edin. ix, p. 

 198 (1886); Sliarpc, cd. Layard a B. S. Afr. p. 766 (1884); Salvin, 

 Cat. B. M. XXV, p. 395 (1896) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 167 (1896) ; 

 Slwrtrldge, Ibis, 1904, p. 203. 



" Black Haglet," " Black Night Hawk," " Stinkpot,'' and " Stinker," 

 of Sealers and Whalers. 



!BiG. 147. — Head of Majaqueus aqidnoctialis. x 5 



Description. Adult. — General colour throughout sooty-black, 

 slightly paler and browner below, in the middle of the back, and 

 on the wing-coverts ; a patch of white on the chin reaching usually 

 to below the eye ; basal halves of the shafts of the primaries white. 



Iris hazel ; bill greenish-horn, the tip of the mandible, the 

 membrane dividing the various portions of the sheath of the bill 

 and the flat space on the culmen in front of the nostrils black ; 

 legs and feet black, sometimes with a pinkish or yellowish tinge 

 on the webs. 



