69. (ESTRELATA BREVIPES, Peak. 



(WHITE-THROATED FULMAR.) 



(Plate 57.) 



Procellaria brevipes, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exped., VIII., pp. 294, 337, PI. 80 (1848). 



Procellaria torquata, Macgill., Zool., XVIII., p. 7132 (1860). 



Procellaria cooJcii (nee Gray) Cass., U. S. Expl. Exped., VIII., pp. 414, 451 (1858). 



Procellaria desolata (nee Gm.) SchL, Mus. Pays-Bas, VI., Procell., p. 13 (1863). 



Msirelata cooki (nee Gray) Cones, Pr. Acad. Philad., 1866, p. 152. 



Mstrelata desolata (nee Gm.) Coues, Pr. Acad. Philad., 1866, p. 155 ; Gigl. and Salvad., 



Ibis, 1869, p. 66. 

 Fulmarus aneiteimensis, Gray, Handl. Birds, III., p. 107 (1871, nom. nud.). 

 GEstrelata leucoptera (nee Gould) Salvin, Ibis, 1876, p. 393 ; Finsch, P. Z. S., 1879, p. 16 ; 



Salvad., Orn. Papuasia, III., p. 466 (1882). 

 Mstrelata leucoptera (nee Gould) Ridgway, Man. N. Amer. Birds, p. 65 (1887). 

 (Estrelata torquata, Salvin, Ibis, 1888, p. 359, 1891, p. 411, PI. 9 ; Harting, Zool., 1890, 



p. 454. 

 Mstrelata brevipes, Stejneger, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVI., p. 617 (1893). 

 (Estrelata brevipes, Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV, p. 408 (1896) ; Sharpe, 



Handb. Brit. Birds, IV., p. 173, PI. CLII. (1897). 



Minor : subtus alba, interdum grisescens : gutture tamen semper albo : subalaribus 

 mediis albis, tectricibus marginalibus nigris, fasciam latam nigram quasi formantibus : 

 primariis infra cinerascenti-brunneis, intus minime albis : pileo nigricante. 



Peale procured this species during the U. S. Exploring Expedition, on March 21st, 1839, 

 in Lat. 68° S., Long. 95° W. Some years later Macgillivray obtained several specimens 

 on the island of Aneiteum, in the New Hebrides. Some of these he forwarded to 

 England with the name aneiteimensis attached, which title was published by G. R. 

 Gray in his " Handlist of Birds." As however no description accompanied this title, 

 it became a nomen nudum, and is not available. In 1860 Macgillivray himself published 

 a good description of the species {Zool., XVIIL, p. 7132), and named it Procellaria 

 torquata, but recently the bird has been found to be identical with (E. brevipes (Peale). 



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