60. (ESTBELATA JAMAICENSIS (Saner.). 



(BLUE-MOUNTAIN FULMAR.) 



(Plate 50.) 



The larger dark Petterill, or Shearwater, Browne, Nat. Hist. Jamaica, p. 482 (1789). 



Procellaria jamaicensis, Bancroft, Zool. Journ., V., p. 81 (1829). 



Blue-Mountain Buck, Gosse, Birds of Jamaica, p. 437 (1847). 



Pterodroma caribbcea, Carte, P. Z. S., 1866, p. 93, PI. X. 



Mstrelata (Pterodroma) caribbcea, Giglioli and Salvad., Ibis, 1869, p. 66. 



Fulmarus caribbceus, Gray, Handl. Birds, III., p. 107 (1871). 



Mstrelata caribbcea, Scl. and Salvin, Nomencl. A v. Neotr., p. 149 (1873) ; Rothschild, 



Extinct Birds, p. 157, PI. 37 (1907). 

 (Estrelata jamaicensis, A. and E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, 1881, p. 117 ; D. Morris, 



Nature, XXV., p. 151 (1881) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 403 



(1896). 

 Mstrelata jamaicensis, Ridgway, Man. N. Amer. Birds, p. 66 (1887). 



Nigricanti-brunnea, vix griseo adumbrata : alis caudaque nigris : supracaudalibus 

 et rectricibus basaliter albis : corpore subtus fuliginoso-brunneis, subcaudalibus 

 pallidioribus : subalaribus nigricantibus. 



The species which we now know as (E. jamaicensis was first observed by 

 Dr. Patrick Browne in 1789, who speaks of his " larger dark Petterill," and describes 

 it as " Sterna 2, major, fusca, humile volans," plentiful and somewhat smaller than a 

 pigeon, of a dark blackish colour, and flying so close to the water that it is frequently 

 hidden between the waves. 



Dr. Bancroft, writing in 1829 to the Editors of the " Zoological Journal," informs 

 them that he is sending the skin of a Petrel which had been hunted by a dog from a hole 

 in the summit of the Blue Mountains. Some numbers were to be met with, but they 

 were difficult to obtain, as the burrows were only found in the crevices of almost 

 inaccessible mountains. The birds probably resort there during the breeding season, 

 as they only fly about in the evening, when it is supposed that they go out to sea. 

 Dr. Bancroft further states that, as the species had not been observed elsewhere, " it 

 might, if new, be called Procellaria jamaicensis." 



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