MONOGRAPH OF THE PETRELS. 



Macgillivray (I.e.) says that it is not confined to Aneiteum, as he saw it on various 

 occasions off the coasts of Tanna and Erromango, and was assured by one of the natives 

 of the former island that it bred about twelve miles to the south of Port Resolution. 



(E. brevipes is also found in the Fiji Islands, some examples having been obtained 

 in the hills of Viti Levu by the late Dr. Kleinschmidt in May, 1878. There are 

 specimens in our own collection and that of the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



In the Leyden Museum is an example, formerly in the Bullock Collection, said to 

 have come from the Antarctic Seas ; a second from Aneiteum, where it is called 

 " Katebu " by the natives, evidently obtained by Macgillivray ; and a third from 

 Ternate, in the Moluccas, procured by Dr. Bernstein. Dr. Otto Finsch has also 

 recorded the species from Duke of York Island (P. Z. 8., 1879, p. 16). 



In 1893 Dr. Stejneger recorded a specimen from the Province of Mutsu, in the 

 Japanese island of Hondo, another in the Leyden Museum, said to have been 

 obtained in the seas of Kamtschatka (Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, VI., Procell., p. 13), was 

 identified by Schlegel as CE. desolata (Gm.), which is generally admitted to be a Prion. 

 Hence the range of the species has been given by some authors as extending to the 

 Island of Desolation, or Kerguelen, but of this there is no confirmation. 



A wonderful instance of the wandering habits of these small Fulmars is seen in 

 the case of the example of CE. brevipes, shot in the British Islands between Borth and 

 Aberystwith, in the winter of 1899. This specimen is now in the British Museum, to 

 which it was presented by Mr. Willis Bund, K.C. 



Peale says that the flight of CE. brevipes is swift, wild, and irregular ; and that 

 the bird evinced no partiality for the vicinity of the ship, which was lying-to in a dense 

 fog, a time when Petrels usually congregated to glean the offal thrown overboard. 



Adult male. General colour above dark ashy-grey, the feathers dusky, with 

 broad grey margins, which incline to hoary-grey on the actual edges ; the longer 

 scapulars blackish ; on the rump a patch of black feathers ; wing-coverts black, the 

 greater series externally ashy-grey, with white fringes ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts 

 and quills black, the inner webs of the primaries ashy-brown, the secondaries externally 

 ashy-grey, and white towards the base of the inner web ; long upper tail-coverts 

 ashy-grey, the basal coverts black like the rump-patch ; crown of head and nape 

 slightly blacker than the back ; forehead white, with a few small black spots ; lores 

 and cheeks white ; feathers below and around the eye, and ear-coverts, black ; throat 

 and under-surface of body white, with a patch of dark ashy-grey on the sides of the 

 chest, of the same colour as the sides of the neck ; the centre of the fore-neck and breast 

 minutely freckled with ashy-grey, which is less marked on the sides of the body and 

 flanks ; axillaries white, with a little ashy-grey freckling on some of the feathers ; under 

 wing-coverts white with more or less freckling of ashy-grey, but the marginal coverts 

 black, with white fringes ; quills dusky-brown below, ashy-brown on the inner webs, 

 which have white margins ; "bill black ; feet pale flesh-colour, the toes black at their 



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