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THALASSIDBOMA PELAGICA. 



(STORM-PETREL.) 



Procellaria pelagica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 212 (1766). 



Hydrobates pelagica (L.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 562. 



Thalassidroma pelagica (L.), Vig. Zool. Journ. ii. 405 (1825). 



Hydrobates faeroeensis, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 803 (1831). 



Hydrobates pelagicus (Boie), C. L. Brehm, torn. cit. p. 804 (1831). 



Thalassidroma melitensis, Schembri, Orn. del Gruppo di Malta, p. 118 & pi. (1843). 



Thalassidroma tenvArostris, L. Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 296. 



Thalassidroma minor, L. Brehm, ut supra. 



Thalassidroma albifasciata, L. Brehm, ut supra. 



Procellaria lugubris, Natt, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. ii. p. 197 (1857). 



Procellaria melanonyx, Nilson, fide Bonap. torn. cit. p. 196 (1857). 



Procellaria melitensis (Schembri), C. A. Wright, Ibis, 1864, p. 154. 



Amplaig, Gaelic ; Thalassidrome tempUe, French ; Alma de mestre, Portuguese ; Uccello 

 delle tempeste, Einninuni di mari, Italian ; Cangiu-ta-Filfla, Maltese ; Schivalben-Sturm- 

 vogel, German ; het Stormvogeltje, Dutch ; Uveirsfugl, Stormsvale, Danish ; Drunquiti, 

 Faeroese ; Stormsvale, Norwegian ; Lilla Stormsvalan, Swedish ; Drudi, Icelandic. 



Figura? notabiles. 



Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, pi. 26; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. 51; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 61. 

 fig. 4 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 275. fig. 1 ; Sundevall, Sv. Fogl. pi. 78. fig. 5 ; 

 Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 447. fig. 2 ; id. B. of G. Brit. v. pi. lxxxv. ; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. 

 pi. 330 ; Audubon, B. of N. Am. pi. 461. 



c? ad. fuliginosus, corpore subtus paullo pallidiore et brunnescentiore : tectricibus alarum medianis vix pallide 

 bruimeo apicatis : remigibus nigricantibus : cauda, nigra, ad basin alba, supracaudalibus albis, nigricante 

 apicatis : crissi lateribus et subcaudalibus lateralibus albis : rostro et pedibus nigris : iride fusca. 



2 mari similis. 



Adult Male (Orkneys). Sooty black, darker on the upper parts than on the lower surface of the body, 

 which is rather browner in tinge ; median wing-coverts with rather paler tips, which make an indistinct 

 alar band ; upper tail-coverts, except at the tips, base of the tail-feathers, sides of the crissum and of 

 the under tail-coverts pure white; tail very slightly rounded, almost square in shape; bill and legs 

 black; iris dark blackish brown. Total length about 5-5 inches, culmen 0\58, wing 4'6, tail 2-15, 

 tarsus 09. 



Female. TJndistinguishable from the male. 



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