68. (ESTRELATA PHCEOPYGIA, Salvin. 



(DARK-RUMPED FULMAR.) 



(Plate 56.) 



Procellaria alba (nee Gm.) Bloxam in Byron's Voyage, p. 252 (1826) ; Dole, Pr. 



Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XII., p. 308 (1869) ; id., Hawaiian Almanac, 1879, p. 55. 

 Procellaria {JEstrelata) alba (nee Gm.) Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Isl. Pacif. Oc., p. 56 



(1859). 

 (Estrelata phceopygia, Salvin, Tr. Z. S., IX., p. 507, PI. 88, fig. 1 (1876) ; id., Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 407 (1896) ; Wilson and Evans, Av. Haw., p. 213, PI. 63 



(1894). 

 (Estrelata sandwichensis, Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water-Birds N. 



Amer., II., p. 395 (1884). 

 .Estrelata sandwichensis, Ridgway, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., IX., p. 95 (1886), XI., p. 104 



(1888). 

 JEstrelata phceopygia, Ridgway, Man. N. Amer. Birds, p. 65 (1887) ; id., Pr. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., XIX., p. 648 (1897) ; Rothschild and Hartert, Nov. Zool., VX, p. 198 



(1899) ; Bryan, Key Birds Hawaiian Group, p. 12 (1901). 

 JZstrelata phceopygia sandwichensis, Rothschild, Avif. Laysan, III., p. 289 (1900). 



Media: ala 11.9-12.0 : subtus alba: notseo nigricante, fronte lata lorisque albis: 

 subalaribus albis, marginalibus late nigris : remigibus infra nigris, pogonio interno 

 basaliter albo. 



The single example from the Sandwich Islands which I have been able to examine, 

 was presented by the Museum of Christiania to the British Museum, and was obtained 

 by Mr. Knudsen near Hawaii. It was originally described by Professor Ridgway in 

 1884 as (E. sandwichensis, but after referring the type to Salvin, they both came to the 

 conclusion that the Sandwich Island bird was identical with (E. phceopygia of the 

 Galapagos {Pr. V. S. Nat. Mus., XI., p. 104, 1888), and with this I agree. Although 

 there is no specific difference between birds from the two localities, there is some 

 variation in the marking of the axillaries, which are occasionally suffused with dark 



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