The Pintado Petrel 



Authorities. — Anthony {Fulmar us glacialis rodgersi), Auk, vol. xii., 1895, 

 p. 107 (off San Diego; habits) ; Godman, Monogr. Petrels, pt. iv., 1909, p. 273, pi. 79; 

 Willett, Pac. Coast Avifauna, no. 7, 1912, p. 17 (occurrence off coast of s. Calif.) ; 



THICK feathers make warm birds. Our interest in Rodgers' 

 Fulmar has been aroused by the fact that its upper plumage presents a 

 mottled appearance which serves to differentiate it from that of the leaden- 

 colored "Glupisch"; but the bird's interest must be very definitely cen- 

 tered on the question whether feathers of a given weight or down of a 

 given thickness will enable it and its offspring to withstand the low 

 temperatures and outbreaking blizzards of Herald Island and Wrangell, 

 where it makes its summer home. Wrangell! Say! this bird may be 

 stupid and its skull as thick as its feathers, belike, but doesn't that iron 

 word move you to envy? Bird of the stout heart! Who would not be 

 cradled in that land of mystery, where icebergs crash on granite and the 

 aurora borealis flares! California is good enough in winter, but O, you 

 enchanted island of the midnight sun! 



No. 404 



Pintado Petrel 



A. O. U. No. [102]. Daption capense (Linnaeus). 



Synonyms. — Cape Pigeon. Cape (of Good Hope) Petrel. Checkered 

 Petrel. Damier. Cape Fulmar. 



Description. — Terminal third of tail and wings, except secondaries, plumbeous 

 black; remaining plumage white; the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts marked with 

 spots of plumbeous black. Bill and feet black. Length 381 (15.00); wing 273.05 

 (10.75); tail 114.3 (4-5°); bill 33 (l-3°); tarsus 41.9 (1.65). 



Recognition Marks. — Teal size; checkered pattern of back distinctive. 



Nesting. — On Kerguelen and the South Orkneys. Description not available. 



General Range. — Southern seas north to Ceylon, central Brazil and northern 

 Peru; accidental off California, Maine, and Great Britain. 



Occurrence in California. — A wanderer taken off Monterey. One record. 



Authorities. — Lawrence {Procellaria capensis), Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New 

 York, 1853, p. 6 (off Monterey) ; Godman, Monogr. Petrels, pt. iv., 1909, p. 276, pi. 

 80; Loomis, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. ii., pt. 2, no. 12, 1918, p. 91 (crit. ; syst.); 

 Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus., Bull. no. 121, 1922, p. 49 (life hist.). 



THE EARLY annals of West American ornithology are cluttered up 

 with records of strange Tube-noses taken "off the coast of California" 

 or "off the coast of Oregon" or "at the mouth of the Columbia River." 

 For one thing, early sea captains, enjoined by wistful friends to remember 



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