63. (ESTRELATA INCERTA, Schlegel. 



(SCHLEGEL'S FULMAR.) 



(Plate 53.) 



Mstrdata inexpectata (nee Forster), Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 189 (1855). 



Procellaria incerta, Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, VI., Procell., p. 9 (1863). 



JEstrelata incerta, Coues, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1866, pp. 147, 170 ; Giglioli and 

 Salvad., Ibis, 1869, p. 66 ; Gigl., Faun. Vertebr. Oceano, p. 41 (1870). 



(Estrelata hcesitata (nee Kuhl), Eagle Clarke, Ibis, 1884, p. 202. 



(Estrelata incerta, Buller, Birds New Zeal., 2nd ed., II., p. 220 (1888) ; Wiglesw., 

 Abhandl. Mus. Dresden, 1890-91, No. 6, p. 82 (1891) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 405 (1896) ; Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C, VIII., p. 25 (1899). 



Brunnea, facie laterali, gutture et praepectore cinerascentioribus, his albo basaliter 

 variegatis : corpore reliquo subtus albo : subcaudalibus brunneis, basin versus albis : 

 subalaribus et axillaribus saturate brunneis. 



Boxapabte identified this species with the Procellaria inexpectata of Forster (Descr. 

 Anim., p. 204), but, if the latter should ever be properly determined, it would probablj- 

 prove to be the (Estrelata gularis of Peale (c/. Sharpe, Hist. Coll. Brit. Mus., II., p. 187). 



Schlegel's name of P. incerta is the first to be accompanied by a proper description, 

 and must therefore be applied. 



This Fulmar has been principally obtained in the Cape Seas, but has 

 a wide range in the southern oceans, as may be seen from the following statement. A 

 specimen in the British Museum, presented by Mr. W. J. Brown, was procured in 

 Lat. 36° S., Long. 10° E., on August 25th, 1888. Dr. A. B. Meyer obtained another 

 on September 8th in Lat. 39° S., Long. 9° E. (Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., 

 p. 406), and Mr. T. Parkin met with GE. incerta in Lat. 39° 51' S., Long. 8° 49' E., on 

 December 2nd, 1890 (Bull, B. 0. C, X., p. cvi., 1900). 



During the voyage of the " Magenta " Professor Giglioli observed this species from 

 the Straits of Magellan to Montevideo, from December 12th to 15th, 1867, and again 

 it occurred in Lat. 30° 36' S., Long. 45° 14' W. On April 8th it was once more 

 encountered in the South Indian Ocean in Lat. 33° 06' S., Long. 91° 04' E., and on 

 the 10th of the same month in Lat. 28° 44' S., Long. 95° 52' E. 



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