22. CYMODROMA MELANOGASTER {Gould). 



(BLACK-BELLIED STORM-PETREL.) 



(Plate 17.) 



Procellaria grallaria (nee Vieill.), Lieht., Verz. Doubl., p. 83 (1823). 

 Procellaria oceanica (nee Kuhl), Bp., Zoo!. Journ., III., p. 89 (1828). 

 Thalassidroma melanogaster, Gould, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., XIII., p. 367 (1844) ; 



id., B. Austr., VII., PI. 62 (1847). 

 Thalassidroma tropica, Gould, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., XIII. , p. 366 (1844). 

 Fregetta melanogaster, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 198 (1856) ; Coues, Pr. Acad. Philad., 



1864, pp. 87, 91 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., II., p. 479 (1865) ; Buller, Birds 



N. Zeal., 2nd ed., II., p. 249 (1888) ; id., Suppl., Birds N. Zeal., I., p. 99 (1905) ; 



Eagle Clarke, Ibis, 1906, pp. 150, 168. 

 Procellaria melanogastra, Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, VI., Procell., p. 6 (1863, pt.). 

 Procellaria tropica, Gray, Handl. Birds, III., p. 104 (1871). 

 Oceanitis tropica, Sbarpe, Phil. Trans., Vol. CLXVEIL, p. 130 (1879) ; id., ed. Layard's 



Birds S. Afr., p. 764 (1884). 

 Oceanites melanogaster, Pagenstecker, J.B. Hamb. Wiss. Anst., II., p. 18 (1884). 

 Cymodroma melanogaster, Ridgway, Man. N. Amer. Birds, p. 72 (1887) ; Salvin, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 365 (1896). 



Fuliginoso-nigra ; pectore et abdomine quo que fuliginoso-nigris : corporis lateribus 

 pure albis. 



This species, although known to earlier writers and mentioned under different names, 

 as can be seen from the synonymy, was first described as Thalassidroma melanogaster 

 by Gould in his paper on " the family Procellariidce, with descriptions of ten 

 new species " (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., XIII., p. 366, 1844). At the same time he 

 described two other species, T. tropica and T. leucogaster. The latter is evidently the 

 bird now known as Cymodroma grallaria (Vieill.). 



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