21. PEALEA LINEATA (Peale), 



(PEALE'S STORM-PETREL.) 



(Plate 16.) 



Thalassidroma lineata, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exp., VIII., pp. 293, 337, Plate 39 (1848). 

 Oceanites lineata, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 200 (1856) ; Coues, P. Philad. Acad., 1864, 



pp. 83, 91. 

 Pealea lineata, Ridgway, Auk, III., p. 334 (1886) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., 



p. 364 (1896). 



Fuliginoso-nigra, gutture et pectore summo, dorso concoloribus : gula alba, 

 nigro maculata : corpore reliquo subtus albo, longitudinaliter nigro striolato : 

 supracaudalibus pure albis. 



I know of only three specimens of this rare Storm-Petrel in collections. The type 

 is in the U. S. National Museum at Washington, and was procured by Titian Peale at 

 Upolu, in the Sandwich Islands, during the celebrated exploring expedition promoted 

 by the United States. Salvin states that a second specimen is in the Paris Museum, and 

 I found a third in our own National collection, for since Salvin wrote his " Catalogue " 

 an example of Peale's Storm-Petrel has been presented to the British Museum by Mr. 

 G. Carrick Steet, who procured it in the neighbourhood of Banks's Peninsula, New 

 Zealand. This is, however, not the first record of the species from New Zealand seas, 

 for Bonaparte mentions the specimen in the Paris Museum as having been procured 

 in 1829, during the voyage of the " Astrolabe," off East Cape in the North Island. 



No notes have been published on the bird, beyond Layard's statement that 

 he saw a small party of these Petrels off Upolu (P. Z. 8., 1876, p. 498). 



Peale says that this bird was frequently seen within the torrid zone, in the 

 Pacific Ocean. A single specimen was obtained at the island of Upolu from a native, 

 who represented to him that during the breeding season the species lived in holes very 

 high up on the mountains (Cassin, U. S. Expl. Exped. Orn., p. 403). 



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