73. (ESTKELATA SOLANDRI {Gould). 



(SOLANDER'S FULMAR.) 

 (Plate 61.) 



Procellaria melanopus, Natterer (nee Gm.) teste Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., II., 



p. 450 (1865). 

 Procellaria solandri, Gould, P. Z. S., 1844, p. 57 ; id., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., XIII., 



p. 363 (1844). 

 Cookilaria solandri, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 190 (1855). 

 Pterodroma solandri, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., II., p. 450 (1865). 

 Mstrelata solandri, Coues, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1866, pp. 148, 170; Gigl. and 



Salvad., Ibis, 1869, p. 66 ; Reichenow, Deutsche Sudpolar Exped., IX., Zool., L, 



p. 485 (1908). 

 Fulmarus solandri, Gray, Handl. Birds, III., p. 107 (1871). 

 (Estrelata solandri, Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 410 (1896). 

 (E sir data solanderi, Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 17 (1908). 



Major : omnino fuliginoso-brunneus, gastrsei plumis basaliter albis : primariis intus 

 basin versus albis. 



A single specimen, the type of his Pterodroma solandri, was procured by Gould in Bass's 

 Straits on March 13th, 1839, and is now in the British Museum. It was not figured in 

 his great work on the " Birds of Australia," but is included in his later " Handbook." 

 This is a large, dark-plumaged species, resembling <E. macroptera, but much exceeding 

 it in size of bill and length of wing and the base of the inner web of the primaries 

 is white. 



As only one specimen of (E. solandri has been obtained, I am inclined to think 

 that it may be a dark phase of some other species, but to which it belongs it is at 

 present difficult to determine. Possibly it is a dusky form of (E. lessoni, for the 

 dimensions are nearly the same, but the dark tarsi and feet do not coincide with the 

 fight colours of the latter bird. I have, therefore, figured and described the type- 

 specimen, and must leave the identification of the species to future ornithologists. 



Gould says that he showed the typical example of (E. solandri to the celebrated 



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