150 PBOCELLABIIS^. 



Sub-Family OCEANITIN^. 



Genus OCEANITES. Keys. 4r Bias. 



Oceanites oceauica (KuM). 

 (Plate XI. fig. 7.) ' 



Oceanites oceanicus, Dresser, Birds Eur. viii. p. 505 (1878) : Sharpe, 

 Phil. Trans. 168. p. 132 (1879) ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 1056 (1880) j 

 Baird, Brewer ^ Ridgw. Water Birds N. Am. ii. p. 416 (1884) ; 

 Salvin, Cat. Birds B.M.xw. p. 358 (1896); SaU, Ibis, 1900, p. 19. 



Procellaria oceanica, Saunders, Phil. Trans. 168. p. 164 (1879). 



Oceanites -wilsoni, Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 449 (1885). 



Oceanites oceanica, Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 122 (1899). 



The eggs of Wilson's Petrel are of an eUiptioal form. They are 

 white, sprinkled with numerous pink specks and dots which 

 sometimes form a broad zone round one end, or are sometimes 

 distributed over one half of the egg, or evenly scattered over the 

 whole shell. They measure from 1"28 to 1"32 in length, and from 

 •9 to "94 in breadth. 



1. Kerguelen Island, 23rd Jan. (A. E. Royal Society [P.]. 

 Baton). 



1. Kerguelen Island, 2nd Feb. (A.E.E.). Royal Society [P.]. 



2. Kerguelen Island, 7th Feb. {A.E.E.). Royal Society XP.J. 

 2. Kerguelen Island,llthFeb.(^.^.X). Royal Society [P.]. 



Genus GARRODIA, Forbes. 

 Garrodia nereis (Gould). 



Procellaria nereis, Campbell, Nests Sr Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 70, fig. 645 



(1883). 

 Garrodia nereis, Buller, Birds New Zeal. 2nd ed, ii. p. 247 (1888) : 



Forbes, Ibis, 1893, p. 542, pi. xiv. fig. 3 ; Salvin, Cat. Birds B. M. 



XXV. p. 361 (1896) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 122 (1899). 



The single egg of the Grey-backed Petrel in the Collection closely 

 resembles some of the eggs of Oceanites oceanica. It is white 

 sprinkled aU over with pink dots which also form a cap at one 

 end. It measures 1"3 by '95. 



1. Chatham Islands. H. 0. Forbes, Esq. [P.] 



Genus PELAGODROMA, Beichenb. 

 Felagodioma marina (Lath.). 



FvoceUana marina,, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Fd^. tab. xcii. fig. 10 (1845-64). 

 Pelagodroma marina, Buller, Birds New Zeal. 2nd ed. ii. p. 248 (1888) ; 



Forbes, Ibis, 1893, p. 542 ; Grant, Ibis, 1896, p. 51 ; Salvin, Cat. 



Birds B. M. xxv. p. 362 (1896) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. ix. (Suppl.) 



p. 399 (1896) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 122 (1899). 



The eggs of the White-faced Petrel are of an elliptical or of a 



