77. CESTRELATA ARMINJONIANA, Gigl. and Salvad. 



(ARMINJON'S FULMAR.) 



(Plate 65.) 



Procellaria sandaliata, Gray, Gen. Birds, III., p. 648 (1844, ex. Solander MS. : descr. 



nulla) ; Salvin, in Rowley's Orn. Misc., I., p. 238 (1876). 

 Bhantistes sandaliata, Bp., Comptes Rend., XLIL, p. 768 (1856). 

 Mstrelata arminjoniana, Giglioli and Salvadori, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat., XL, p. 452 



(1868) ; iid., Ibis, 1869, pp. 62, 66 ; Giglioli, Faun. Vertebr. Oceano, p. 42 



(1870). 

 CEstrelata arminjoniana, Salvin, in Rowley's Orn. Misc., I., pp. 234, 252, PL 31 (1876) ; 



id., Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 413 (1896). 

 CEstrelata mollis (nee Gould), Saunders, P. Z. S., 1880, p. 164. 

 CEstrelata armingoniana, Nicoll, Ibis, 1906, p. 671. 

 CEstrelata wilsoni, Sharpe, Bull. B. 0. C, XII., p. 49 (1902) ; id., Ibis, 1904, p. 216 ; 



Nicoll, Ibis, 1906, p. 671. 

 White-breasted Petrel, Wilson, Ibis, 1904, p. 212. 



Primariis externis pogonii interni basin versus albis : corpore subtus albo, interdum 

 brunneo : subalaribus brunneis : fronte brunnea, pileo concolori, minime alba. 



(E. arminjoniana belongs to the group containing (E. neglecta and other allied species, 

 which have a white base to the inner web of the first primary. It is distinguished from 

 (E. heraldica and CE. gularis by its dark forehead, in which respect it resembles 

 CE. trinitatis, but differs in its white under-surface, and in the colour of the feet and 

 toes. 



The species was first discovered during the cruise of the " Magenta," in January, 

 1868, in Lat. 28° 56' S., Long. 36° 24' W., and was obtained later off the island of 

 South Trinidad, in the Atlantic Ocean, by Professor Giglioli, who, with Count Salvadori, 

 named it after Captain Victor Arminjon, of the Royal Italian Navy, who then 

 commanded the vessel. Although many specimens were shot when the " Magenta " 



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