52. THALASSCECA ANTARCTICA (Gm.). 



(ANTARCTIC FULMAR.) 

 (Plate 42.) 



Antarctic Peterel, Cook, Second Voyage, I., p. 257 ; Forster, Voy. I., p. 108 (1777) ; id., 

 Icon, ined., 95 ; Lath., Gen. Syn., III., Pt. II., p. 400 (1785). 



Le Petrel Antarctique ou Damier brun, Buff., Hist. Nat. Ois., IX., p. 151 (1783). 



Procellaria antdrctica, Gm., Syst. Nat., I., p. 565 (1788) ; Lath., Ind. Orn., II., p. 822 

 (1790) ; Reichenow, Deutsche Siidpolar Exped., IX., Zool., I., p. 554 (1908). 



Daption antarcticum, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool., XIII. , p. 242 (1826). 



Thalassceca antarctica, Reichenb., Syst. Av., p. IV. (1852) ; Bp., Consp. Av., II., 

 p. 192 (1855) ; Coues, Pr. Acad. Philad., 1866, pp. 31, 192 ; Buller, Birds 

 New Zeal., 2nd ed., II., p. 229 (1888) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV, p. 

 392 (1896) ; Saunders, Antarctic Man., Birds, pp. 229, 236 (1901) ; Sharpe, 

 Rep. Coll. " Southern Cross," Aves, p. 143 (1902) ; Wilson, Nat. Antarctic 

 Exped. Zool., II., Aves, p. 82 (1906) ; Eagle Clarke, Ibis, 1906, p. 169, 1907, 

 p. 334. 



Fulmar us antarcticus, Gray, Handl. Birds, III., p. 105 (1871) ; Ridgway, Man. N. 

 Amer. Birds, p. 58 (1887). 



Priocella antarctica, Sharpe, Voy. " Erebus and Terror," I., Birds, App., p. 37, PL 

 XXXIII. (1875). 



Acipetes antarctica, W. A. Forbes, Rep. Voy. " Challenger," Zool., IV., Pt. XI., 

 p. 59 (1882). 



Brunnea, vix cinereo adumbrata : supracaudalibus externis et rectricibus albis, 

 his nigro fasciatim terminatis : tectricibus alarum dorso concoloribus, majoribus pure 

 albis, remigibus primariis nigris, intus albis : facie laterali cum colli pectorisque 

 lateribus et gutture toto, brunneis : corpore reliquo subtus pure albo : tectricibus 

 alarum albis, marginalibus brunneis. 



This very distinct species was first discovered by Captain Cook, and is mentioned by 

 Forster, in his account of the second voyage of the celebrated navigator, as a new Petrel 



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