54. MAJAQUEUS iEQUINOCTIALIS (Linn.). 



(WHITE-CHINNED BLACK FULMAR.) 



(Plate 44.) 



The Great Black Peteril, Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, II., p. 89, PI. 89 (1747). 



Le Puffin du Cap de Bonne Esperance, Brisson, Orn., VI., p. 137 (1760). 



Procellaria fuliginosa (nee Gm.) Solander, MSS. ; Parkinson, Icon, ined., No. 19 ; 



Salvin in Rowley's Orn. Misc., I., p. 232 (1876). 

 Procellaria azquinoctialis, Linn., Syst. Nat., I., p. 213 (1766). 

 Petrel-Puffin brun, Buff., Hist. Nat. Ois., X., p. 163 (1786). 

 Black Petrel, Lath., Gen. Syn., III., Pt. 2, p. 398 (1785). 

 Puffinus cequinoctialis, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool., XIII. , p. 229 (1826). 

 Procellaria nigra, Forster, Descr. Anim., p. 26 (1844). 

 Procellaria conspicillata, Gould, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., XIII., p. 362 (1844) ; 



id., Birds Austr., Fol. vii., PI. 46 (1848) ; Reichenow, Deutsche Siidpolar 



Exped. V6g., p. 482, Fig. 16 (1908). 

 Majaqueus conspicillatus, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 200 (1856) ; Coues, Pr. Acad. 



Philad., 1864, pp. 118, 142; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., II., p. 445 (1865) ; 



Giglioli, Faun. Vertebr. Oceano, p. 36 (1870). 

 Majaqueus mquinoctialis, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 200 (1856) ; Coues, Pr. Acad. 



Philad., 1864, pp. 118, 142 ; Giglioli, Faun. Vertebr. Oceano, p. 35 (1870) ; 



Sharpe, Phil. Trans., Vol. 168, p. 119 (1879); Moseley, Notes Nat. 



" Challenger," pp. 137, 208, 254 (1879) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., 



p. 395 (1896) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austr., p. 17 (1908). 

 Puffinus conspicillatus, Pelz., Reis. No vara Vog., p. 143 (1865). 

 Fulmarus azquinoctialis, Gray, Handl. Birds, III., p. 108 (1871). 

 Fulmarus conspicillatus, Gray, Handl. Birds, III., p. 108 (1871). 



Niger : mento et gula summa, genisque rarius, pure albis. 



The first description of this species, familiarly known to sailors as the " Cape Hen," was 

 published by George Edwards in 1747. His figure fairly represents the bird, but 

 gives no indication of the white chin, which is a marked characteristic. 



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