55. MAJAQUEUS PARKINSONI {Gray). 



(PARKINSON'S BLACK FULMAR.) 



(Plate 45.) 



Procellaria cequinoctialis, partim, Gray, List Anseres, etc., Brit. Mus., p. 160 (1844, nee 



Linn.). 

 Procellaria parkinsoni, Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 245 ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., p. 302 (1873). 

 Majaqueus parkinsoni, Coues, Pr. Acad. Philad., 1866, p. 192 ; Buller, Birds New 



Zeal., 2nd ed., II., p. 242 (1888) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 397, 



PI. V. (1896). 

 Puffinus parkinsoni, Pelz., Reis. Novara, Zool., I., Vog., p. 144 (1869). 

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



M. aiquinoctiali similis, sed valde minor, et albedine gulari vel faciali nulla 

 distinguendus. 



Gray's type of Procellaria parkinsoni was presented to the British Museum by Miss 

 Rachel Stone, who gave many specimens to that institution at a time when it 

 possessed but a poor collection of New Zealand birds. 



The species is distinguished from M. aquinoctialis by its smaller size and entirely 

 black colour, the white on the chin, or sides of the face, being absent. The late G. R. 

 Gray recognised the difference, and bestowed on the Majaqueus from New Zealand 

 the name of M. parkinsoni, in honour of Sydney Parkinson, who accompanied 

 Sir Joseph Banks on Captain Cook's first voyage round the world, and who died during 

 the expedition (Sharpe's History of the Collections in the British Museum, II., Birds, 

 p. 173). 



Although M . parkinsoni is generally known as an inhabitant of New Zealand 

 seas, it extends its range to Australian waters, where Mr. A. J. Campbell records it 

 from Tasmania and New South Wales. 



The late Sir W. Buller gives a very complete account of this Fulmar in New 

 Zealand, from which I have made the following extract : — 



This species, which appears to be peculiar to New Zealand seas, is by no means 

 uncommon in the Hauraki Gulf, resorting to the Little Barrier and adjacent islands 



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