24. CYMODROMA ALBIGULARIS (Finsch). 



(WHITE-THROATED STORM-PETREL.) 



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 (Plate 19.) 



Fregetta tropica (nee Gould), Bp., C. R., XLL, p. 1112 (1855) : id., Consp. Av. II., p. 197 



(1856). 

 Procellaria torquata (nee Macgill.), Gray, Handl. Birds, III., p. 104 (1871). 

 Thalassidroma albigularis, Macgill. MSS. 

 Procellaria albigularis, Finsch, P. Z. S., 1877, p. 722. 

 Fregetta albigularis, Salvin, P. Z. S., 1879, p. 130 ; Oates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus., I., 



p. 151, PI. XII., Fig. 1 (1901). 

 Gymodroma tropica, Ridgw., Man. N. Amer. Birds, 1887, p. 72. 

 Cymodroma albigularis, Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 367 (1896). 



Major : cauda valde furcata : fascia uropygiali angusta alba ; gastraeo albo, torque 

 pectorali brunneo. 



The first mention of this Petrel is by Bonaparte, in his paper on the birds of the 

 Marquesas Islands in the "Comptes Rendus" (Vol. XLL, p. 1112), but he erroneously 

 identified it with P. tropica of Gould. Dr. Finsch next named the species P. albigularis 

 from a specimen procured at Kandavu, in the Fiji Archipelago, by the late Dr. 

 Theodor Kleinschmidt ; it was taken on the nest on the 10th September, 1876. 



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