61. (ESTRELATA ROSTRATA (Peak). 



(PEALE'S FULMAR.) 

 (Plate 51.) 



Procellaria rostrata, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exped., pp. 296, 338, PI. 82 (1844) ; Cass., U. S. 



Expl. Exped., pp. 412, 451, PL 41 (1858). 

 Procellaria desolata (nee Gm.) Jacq. et Pucher., Voy. Pole Sud, Zool., III., p. 138. 

 Thalassidroma rostrata, Hartl., J. f. 0., 1854, p. 169. 

 Mstrelata rostrata, var. a, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 189 (1855) ; Cones, Pr. Acad. Philad., 



1866, pp. 144, 170. 

 Mstrelata desolata, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 189 (1855). 

 Rhantistes rostrata, Bp., Comptes Rend., XLIL, p. 768 (1856). 



Procellaria (Mstrelata) rostrata, Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Isl. Pacific Ocean, p. 56 (1859). 

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

 (Estrellata rostrata, E. L. and L. C. Layard, Ibis, 1878, p. 264. 

 (Estrelata rostrata, Wiglesw., Abhandl. Mus. Dresden, 1890-91, No. 6, p. 82 (1891) ; 



Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 404 (1896). 



Subtus alba : pileo, dorso, et supracaudalibus concoloribus : subalaribus saturate 

 brunneis : gutture et praepectore dorso concoloribus : rostro crasso. 



This species was described by the late Titian Peale from examples obtained by him 

 during the U. S. Exploring Expedition, at Tahiti, in the Society Islands. Mr. 

 Wiglesworth (Aves Polyn., p. 82) identifies the Procellaria desolata of Jacquinot and 

 Pucheran with (E. rostrata (Peale), and if this surmise be correct, the Caroline Islands 

 must be included as within its range. Mr. E. L. Layard and his son Leopold 

 made excellent collections of the birds of New Caledonia, and record (E. rostrata 

 as the commonest Petrel of the seas in that vicinity, but they seem never to have 

 obtained any adult birds, though they sent several specimens of the nestlings to 

 England. Two of these nestlings are in the British Museum, and though Salvin 

 (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 405) says that their determination is quite uncertain, 

 I am inclined to think that they have been rightly referred to CE. rostrata, although, 

 until adult specimens have been procured from New Caledonia, it will be impossible to 



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