58. (ESTKELATA LESSONI (Garnot). 



(WHITE-HEADED FULMAR.) 



(Plate 48.) 



Procellaria vagabunda, Solander MSS. ; teste Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., 



p. 401 (1896). 

 Procellaria lessoni, Garnot, Ann. Sci. Nat., VII., p. 54, PI. 4 (1826) ; Gould, Birds 



Austr., Fol. VII., PI. 49 (1848) ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., p. 303, PI. 29, 



fig. 2 (1873). 

 Puffinus sericeus, Less., Man. d'Orn., II., p. 402 (1828) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1875, p. 374. 

 Procellaria leucocephala, Forster, Descr. Anim., ed. Licht., p. 206 (1844). 

 Puffinus lessoni, Reichenb., Syst. Av. Natatores, PI. 20, fig. 339 (1850). 

 Mstrelata leucocephala, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 189 (1855) ; Gould, Handb. Birds 



Austr., IL, p. 451 (1865). 

 Adamastor sericeus, Bp., Consp. Av., IL, p. 188 (1855). 

 (Estrelata lessoni, Cass., Pr. Acad. Philad., 1862, p. 327 ; Sbarpe, Phil. Trans., 



CLXVIIL, p. 126 (1879) ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., 2nd ed., IL, p. 219 (1888) ; 



Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 401 (1896) ; Grant, Ibis, 1905, p. 554. 

 JEstrelata lessoni, Coues, Pr. Acad. Philad., 1866, pp. 142, 170 ; Giglioli, Faun. Vertebr. 



Oceano, p. 40 (1870). 

 Fulmarus lessoni, Gray, Handl. Birds, III., p. 106 (1871). 



Primariis intus cineraceis : subtus pure alba : capite undique albo, plaga anteoculari 

 nigra. 



The White-headed Fulmar was described from the neighbourhood of the Falkland 

 Islands by Dr. Garnot, one of the naturalists on board the " Coquille." In his paper 

 on the birds of these islands he gives a full description of the species, which he named 

 after his friend Lesson, who was also a member of the same celebrated expedition. 

 The figure which accompanies his description is not quite accurate, but it leaves no 

 doubt as to the identity of the species. 



Since the visit of the " Coquille " to the Falkland Islands, I cannot find any 

 record of the occurrence of (E. lessoni in the seas of eastern South America, nor has it 



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