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is found throughout the Southern Ocean, generally between the 

 35th and 60th parallels; it has been obtained at Madeira perhaps 

 accidentally. There is no example in the South African Museum, 

 but the British Museum possesses a specimen from the " Cape of 

 Good Hope," presented many years ago by Sir Andrew Smith. 

 This constitutes the sole South African record, so far as I am aware. 



Subfamily III. PELICANOIDIN^. 



Nostrils distinct ; opening upwards in either side of the middle 

 of the base of the culmen ; margin of the sternum even, the sternum 

 itself considerably longer than wide ; no ambiens muscle ; no 

 hallux ; second primary slightly the longest. 



Genus I. PELICANOIDES. 



Type. 

 Pelicanoides, Lacepede, Mem. I'Inst. iii, p. 513 (1801) P. urinatrix. 



Bill short and stumpy, about half the length of the head ; nostrils 

 opening upwards on either side of the base of the culmen by two 

 distinct orifices ; wings short, the second primary slightly the 

 longest ; tail short and nearly square of twelve feathers ; tarsus 

 short and slightly ridged in front, covered with small hexagonal 

 scales ; no trace of a hind toe. 



Three closely allied species of Diving Petrel are assigned to this 

 genus, which ranges throughout the Southern Ocean ; one of them 

 appears to occur occasionally in the Cape Seas. 



802. Pelicanoides exul. Diving Petrel. 



Pelicanoides urinatrix {nee Oinel.) Greev, Ocean Birds, p. 36 (1887). 

 Halodroma exul, Cab. & Reich., Journ. Ornith. 1876, p. 328. 

 Pelicanoides exul, Salvin, Cat. B. M. xxv, p. 438 (1896) ; Shelley, B. 

 Afr. i, p. 168 (1896). 



Description. Adult. — General colour above shining black, most 

 of the feathers with greyish bases, this colour extending throughout 

 the inner webs of some of the scapulars ; below white, the sides of 

 the neck and a band across the chest mottled with grey, due to a 

 subterminal bar of that colour on most of the feathers ; flanks and 



