20. PELAGODBOMA MABINA {Lath). 



(WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL.) 

 (Plate 15.) 



Procellaria ceguorea, Solander MSS. ; cf. Salvin, in Rowley's Orn. Misc., I., p. 238 



(1876). 

 Frigate Petrel, Lath., Gen. Syn., III., p. 410 (1785). 

 Procellaria marina, Lath., Ind. Orn., II., p. 826 (1790). 

 ■ Pachyptila marina, Steph., in Shaw's Gen. Zool., XIII., p. 253 (1826). 

 Oceanites marinus, Keys and Bias., Wirb. Eur., p. 93 (1840). 

 Thalassidroma marina, Gray, List Anseres, Brit. Mus., p. 161 (1844). 

 Thalassidroma hypoleuca, Moquin-Tandon, in Webb, and Berth. Orn. Canar., p. 45 



(c. 1841). 

 Pelagodroma marina, Reichenb., Av. Syst. Nat., p. 4 (1852) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., XXV., p. 362 (1896). ' 

 Pelagodroma fregata, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 198 (1856). 

 Procellaria fregata (nee Linn.), Schl., Mus. Pays Bas, VI., Procell., p. 5 (1863). 

 Thalassidroma fregata (nee Linn.), Buller, Birds N. Zeal., p. 321 (1873). 



Cineracea : pileo nigricante ; uropygio imo et supracaudalibus clarius cinereis ; 

 alis caudaque nigris ; fronte et superciliis, genis et corpore subtus toto pure albis ; 

 regione parotica et plumis subocularibus nigris. 



This pretty little Storm-Petrel has a very wide range, as it has been found breeding on 

 the islands off the coasts of Southern and Western Australia, and again on the Cape 

 Verde and Salvage Islands in the Atlantic, while it has occurred as a straggler off 

 the coasts of New England in North America, and also on the British Islands. 



The first record of the species appears in Parkinson's Drawings in the Banksian 

 Library in the British Museum. Sydney Parkinson accompanied Sir Joseph Banks 

 as artist, during Captain Cook's first circumnavigating voyage. His thirteenth plate 

 represents this Petrel, which was obtained on the 23rd December, 1768, in Lat. 37° S., 

 and was named Procellaria cequorea by Solander, who gave a description of it in his 



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