76. (ESTRELATA NEGLECTA (Schlegel). 



(PHILLIP'S FULMAR.) 



(Plate 64.) 



? White-breasted Petrel, Lath., Gen. Syn., III., pt. 2, p. 400 (1785). 



? Norfolk Island Petrel, Lath., Gen. Syn., Suppl., II., p. 334 (1802). 



? Procellaria alba, Gm., Syst. Nat., I., p. 565 (1788) ; Lath., Ind. Orn., II., p. 822 (1790). 



? Procellaria grisea (nee Gm.) Bonn., Enc. Meth., I., p. 75 (1790). 



? Procellaria variegata, Bonn., Enc. Meth., I., p. 78 (1790). 



Daption album, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool., XIII. , p. 246 (1826). 



Rhantistes raolensis, Bp., Comptes Rend., XLIL, p. 768 (descr. nulla, ex Gould MSS.). 



Procellaria phillipii, Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 246. 



Procellaria neglecta, Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, VI., Procell., p. 10 (1863) ; Finsch, P. Z. S., 

 1879, p. 15. 



Mstrdata neglecta, Coues, Pr. Acad. Philad., 1866, pp. 147, 170. 



Procellaria mollis (nee Gould) Finsch, J. f. O., 1870, p. 373, 1874, p. 207. 



Fulmarus albus, Gray, Handl. Birds, III., p. 106 (1871). 



(Estrelata neglecta, Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov., XVIII. , p. 411 (1882) ; id., Orn. 

 Papuasia, III., p. 465 (1882) ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., 2nd ed., II., p. 224 

 (1888) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV, p. 412 (1896). 



(Estrelata phillipi, Hutton, P. Z. S., 1893, p. 755. 



(Estrelata leucophrys, Hutton, P. Z. S., 1893, p. 752, PL 63. 



(Estrelata neglecta, var. Hutton, P. Z. S., 1893, p. 754. 



Media : ala 11.0-11.2 : notseo brunneo, gastrseo griseo, vel albo : primariis intus albis : 

 axillaribus et subalaribus cinerascenti-brunneis. 



This Fulmar is remarkable for its variable colour, some examples being for the most 

 part white, while others are entirely grey. These two phases of plumage are so unlike 

 each other that the birds might very well be taken for different species. Buller, 

 indeed, at one time thought that the dark birds were the young of the white-headed 

 form, but there can now be no question that they represent a dark phase of plumage, as 



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